Adverts.

Love em, hate em, watch em, flick em - they are everywhere. But where I seem to hate them the most is when I come across ads online. Be they pop-ups, pop-unders, annoying banners, or flashy video ones, I pretty much ignore most of the online ads I see as I surf around. However, what's annoyed me the most recently are the ads they have on Facebook. You see, Facebook allows advertisers to specify what they want their target audience to be, so that their advert will only be display to interested people. But when I log onto Facebook, I see adverts for Gay personals, 'Find the man of your dreams today', 'Gay cruise for singles' and 'Gay speed dating in your city now!'. Okay, I get it already - I'm gay, single, and pathetic - can you come up with some new material already?

And if that wasn't bad enough, I had a rather interesting moment today when I logged into my amazon.com account to buy something for a friend. Amazon has this 'recommendations' feature where it lists items you might be interested in. So when I saw the little notification that said "We have new recommendations for you", here's the list of items that Amazon 'recommended 'to me:

1. 20 Warning Signs of Down Low Brothers
2. Gay and Single...Forever?
3. Camp Out
4. The Perfect Pregnancy Workout
5. Bridget Jones's Diary (Collector's Edition)

So according to Amazon, I'm a single gay pregnant man on the DL - and here I thought I had myself all figured out.

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