[Air-L] question about use of Facebook in classroom

[Heidelberg, Chris]

Hey Danah did you finish yet? Or are you busy creating international
scholarly incidents LOL? BTW - I love your work and even though I have
been done for nearly a year and had to wait to walk, I followed the
saga. People like you are the future and it looks bright from where I am
sitting (I guess I am too, but I got you by a few years LOL).

Chris 

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of danah boyd
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:15 PM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] question about use of Facebook in classroom

Nancy - you've deleted them from your public profile, but it's still
stored in your account.  It has to be due to COPPA.  Ads are delivered
based on back-end information, not front-end information.  Thus, when
Company X buys adds from Facebook, they tell them to just deliver said
ads to people over 40.  Then, when Facebook generates your page, it'll  
ship you an ad, regardless of what info is public on your page.   
Facebook makes it a pain in the ass to change your birthday, but if you
set up other accounts with different birthdays, you can see the span of
ads generated.  (Yes, I'm a dork.)

danah


On Aug 21, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Nancy Baym wrote:

> I'd add also that changing your profile does not have instant results.

> When I started getting ads targeted at the "over 40" crowd, I deleted 
> my birth year from my profile, but I still get those ads and it's been

> well over a month since I deleted the information.
>
> I am glad to hear others are as offended as I am by the persistent ads

> for diets every time we women log in.
>
> Nancy
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