I just discovered Facebook's ad preferences section

[ttt]

I never noticed this before - apparently some of the data FB has been collecting about my preferences is there, and these are the categories it thinks I'm interested in. Some are pretty accurate, like US Senate. But "Mensa"? "Blond"? "gyms"? LOL no. You can look up your own under FB ad preferences. 

ETA: "homeschooling" I blame on all of you!!

Advertising
Advertising agency
Agriculture
Al Jazeera Media Network
Amazon.com
American Girl
Apple Inc.
Architecture
Artisan
BabyCenter
Banking
BBC
Behavior
Biology
Blond
Brand
Brewery
Business
BuzzFeed
Casting (performing arts)
Chang'e
Chef
Child actor
City
Cloud computing
CNN
College
Company
Construction
Corporation
Cracked.com
Credit cards
Customer service
Dentistry
Design
Designer
Economics
Education
Employment
Entrepreneurship
Epicurious
Etsy
everytown for gun safety
Facebook
Farm
Film producer
Finance
Financial services
Gawker
Goodreads
Gyms
Hairdresser
Higher education
History
Homeschooling
House
Idea
Information
Instagram
Insurance
Interior design
IPhone
Jezebel (website)
Journalism
korres usa
Law
Lawyer
Lego
Life
Lifehacker
Management
Market (economics)
Marketing
Mashable
Mathematics
Medicine
Memory
Mensa International
mighty girl
Money
Mortgage loans
Music school
National Park Service
NBC
Netflix
Organization
Paper
Parental leave
Park
Pet food
Photographer
Physics
pier 1 imports
Pier 1 Imports
Pinterest
Planned Parenthood
Play (telecommunications)
Police
Posture (psychology)
Pound (mass)
Price
Productivity software
Professional association
Property
Psychology
Real estate
Real estate broker
Reddit
Refinery29
Research
Retail
Rings of Saturn
Sales promotion
Samsung
Saving
School
Science
Scientist
smitten kitchen
Social group
Social networking service
Social science
Studio
Symbol
Target Corporation
Taste
Tax
Teacher
The Huffington Post
The Oatmeal
The Walt Disney Company
Trade
TripAdvisor
Typography
U.S. state
United States Congress
United States Senate
University
Upworthy
Value (personal and cultural)
Victory
Vox Media
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Website
White
Woman
Writer
Year
Yelp

[IIOY]

I got a Jameson whiskey as this morning. FB knows me well.

If Mensa pops up, I'm going to be insulted.

[ttt]

I didn't even notice all the other categories. FB accurately believes I am interested in Elizabeth Warren and the show The Bridge and inaccurately believes I am interested in Lebron James and Baby (Justin Bieber Song).

ETA: also, why is "African American culture" listed under 'Sports and Outdoors'?? 

[eclaires]

I'm not copying all of mine, but apparently I really like shopping, makeup, current events, and sports, which is not false.

Specifically amusing ones to me - Justin Bieber (Baby song) what?!, CSI (which I've never watched), Annunciation (Apparently I liked a page associated with this - yeah, a church named St. Mary's of the Annunciation, lol), and West Coast Hip Hop, where the reason is, "may be relevant to you based on what you do on facebook, such as pages you've liked or ads you've clicked."

[eclaires]

Sept 4, 2015 7:39:12 GMT -5 ttt said:

I didn't even notice all the other categories. FB accurately believes I am interested in Elizabeth Warren and the show The Bridge and inaccurately believes I am interested in Lebron James and Baby (Justin Bieber Song).

ETA: also, why is "African American culture" listed under 'Sports and Outdoors'?? 

Apparently, according to facebook, I also like Baby (Justin Bieber song), and it is because a page I liked is related to it.  Ummm, okay then!

[rubytue]

Sept 4, 2015 9:19:00 GMT -5 mr+ms said:

Kind of on a tangent, but has anyone noticed a recent flurry of "people you may know" suggestions, including people that are not friends-of-friends-of-friends on facebook? I'm really not liking how far and deep they're reaching in profiling people. I use facebook very sparingly and I'm a little surprised at how much personal info people divulge on there.

H just got a FB account about 2 weeks ago (long story). When he signed up, I was his only friend. Yet the "ppl you might know" section was full of people he did know. Mostly work contacts, like all the guys who work under him and the business owners he works with. We *think* it was a phone number thing. When you granted permission to access your phone contacts...