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If he put that he was married on the site, he wouldn't get the dating ads. I just checked my facebook (for the first time in awhile) and 3 of 4 ads where things that made sense and were interesting to me.

I personally don't think Facebook is worth nearly as much as their current valuation, but as long as they have 900 million users who average a 1/2 hour a day on the site they are worth quite a bit. As for the targeted ads, I'd much rather have ads for things that are interesting to me than for things that aren't.



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