Searching Facebook Ads

March 04th 2008

I never in a million years would have thought that I would want to search ads, but I do!

Yesterday while cruising around Facebook I saw an ad for a cabin rental in the Adirondacks. I clicked onto something else before I realized that the ad was of interest to me and then couldn’t find it again. I clicked on the little “more ads” under the space, but it wasn’t there.

I’ve set up these ads before and know that they allow you to target people based on a variety of demographic and key word data. So I obviously fit someone’s profile for who they wanted to target and they got it right because I wanted to find out more. But, now I can’t!

The only thing I can guess is that this particular ad hit a spending limit and that is why it is not visible any more. But, wouldn’t it be nice to be able to look for ads if you wanted to? Sure, the frequency of this happening would be low, but who is going to turn away someone that WANTS to see their ad?

Ok, my mini rant is done. Guess I’ll have to just use good old Google to look for a cabin to rent.

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  • http://www.samjackson.org/college Sam Jackson

    I actually find myself in the same situation… though don’t know if I could find a given ad in the mass of all those that I would see (even if I didn’t block them all). But occasionally, if I forget to update my filters, one flits through, and rarer still something interesting comes up. So far, though, follow-throughs have proved pretty unexciting–so I don’t feel too bad.

  • http://www.memberspeed.com Jay, writer Memberspeed.com

    It might sound strange for people who know what drives the ads in these social networking sites. After all, they spend most of the time trying to ignore the banners. But that must have been some ad to have gotten you hunting after it. If it had already reached its limit, then I bet there were a lot of people who chased after that ad as well.

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