I have a Friend in the USMC and don’t get to talk to him very much. But he has a facebook account, so I thought I would get one so I could keep in contact with him. So I went over to facebook and signed up, got my account, uploaded the standard pictures, filled out the info, and checked it out every now and then.

After about three or four week I started to notice something very disturbing, and frankly disgusting. I have been on other sites like facebook where they have ads like “Win a free car!” or “You are the 999,999,999 visitor that makes you the winner!”. But on facebook it is totally different. At first I was getting ads like “Register to vote for Obama”. Then one day I got on prepared for the political ads and up popped this ad “Chat with local gays in your area”. I about fell out of my chair. I could not believe what I was reading. And I started wondering, did they just assume I was gay, did they know I live in a town with no gay people in it, was I the only straight guy on facebook?

After another couple weeks I was getting tired of seeing these gay ads and decided to find out why I was getting them. After look at my info page I saw the error in my ways. For those of you who do not know, when you are filling out the info stuff they ask your gender and the gender of those you are interested in. Well in my hase I said that I was a male interested in males. They did not assume that I was gay; I told them I was and they advertised to me as such.

Needless to say I wasted to time changing that little typo, so now I only get the “Chat with local single women” ads.