Aye, right!

According to Facebook, these Match.com guys are unable to find girlfriends:

What can I tell you? Whatever is wrong with these guys - and there has to be something wrong if they are reduced to advertising on FB - it's not their looks.

This is just a preamble to a wee rant about FB and its awful, unbelievable, intrusive - did I mention awful? - and sometimes downright dishonest advertising. To begin with, FB ads were just down the right hand side of the page so it was pretty obvious they were ads and it was quite easy to ignore them. Now the ads also pop up between posts in the body of the page. They look like regular posts. It sometimes looks as if friends of mine are endorsing ads. 

But I know my friends and they are definitely not going to endorse stuff like this 'hilarious debut novel.' 

Have you ever seen a description more likely to put you off buying a book? 

Nor are they likely to subscribe to the mad idea that 'WEIRD Spice REVERSES Your Diabetes in 3 Short Weeks.' 

Just a wee aside here: to get diabetes, you have to have the gene. Once you get diabetes, it is NOT reversible.

As for the 'beauty' ads, spare me:

Are these meant to be beautiful nails - or the nails of someone waiting at A&E?

So what, you say? Advertising is everywhere. The deal with FB is: it is free and always will be. My point is: we agreed to that. We just didn't realise for it to be free, there would have to be this terrible advertising.