Friday, July 6, 2012

Steak, Steak, Go Away!

For those of you who use Facebook, you are probably familiar with the sidebar ads. You know, the ones on the right side of the page, right next to the scroll bar, that most people just ignore anyways? I get a lot of ads for vegan / animal welfare things that I sometimes check out. Well, for whatever reason, I just got an ad for Fatz, (its a restaurant for those who aren't familiar,) and the advertisement image said "Love Steak?" with a silhouette of a steak. Now, this succeeded in catching my attention, but as must be obvious by the fact that I'm running a veganism / animal rights blog, I happen to NOT love steak. In fact, I've always HATED steak! Even before I was even a vegetarian. (Which was before I was a vegan, logically.) Now, normally, I don't bother to hide ads on Facebook, but since I was already looking at it, I decided to hide all ads for Fatz. Once I clicked it, Facebook wanted to know why I didn't want to receive any more ads for Fatz. There were several general reasons you could choose, and the closest one to "This is an advertisement for steak, and I am a vegan" was "Against my views," so I went with that. Something about that particular reason struck me as funny. I mean, how often do you think people select that for a restaurant? My guess is: not very.

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