For those of you that use gmail, you're probably familiar with the ads that appear along the sides of your email conversations -- basically, the company auto-scans email and picks up on key words, but I have to wonder about this one that appeared in an email that a friend and I were exchanging about going to the ballet in NY.
NY Eyelid Surgery-Dr Kwan
Preserving Asian Identity Through Cosmetic Surgery. 2 NYC Locations!
[and then the address of the site which I'm not going to bother listing]
That's just weird. I know my friend has an Asian name, but what on earth would make me want to click on that ad?
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I've heard Asian students at school (male and female) talk about cosmetic surgery to make their eye folds less Asian (apparently this is all the rage in some circles), and students of European ancestry (male and female) weigh the option of the opposite cosmetic surgery to make their eyes look more Asian (and presumably more "exotic" to their target audience). Apparently the grass is always greener on the other side of the gene pool. What I don't understand is - why aren't these people beating down the doors for surgery to look more German-Irish?
It's been around for quite a while. I remember being a kid and reading some book by Jane Fonda on how she got into being fit, and there was a discussion about body image in the 70s and comments about eyelid surgery.
With the pending merger of DoubleClick with Google, it will make their targeted spam ads that much more invasive and uh... targeted (I guess).
Regardless, have you EVER clicked on them?! I might notice them once in a while and ponder at the logic they used in delivering these targeted ads, but I've never clicked on them. I think they rely on newbies to the Internet for their clicks.
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