Is your dirty laundry being aired out in cyberspace?

Do you ever feel as if the web has access to your personal diary?  It’s like the Internet knows all of your secrets.  The Web is always sending targeted pop-ups that you might not want to see (like you’re overweight, single, etc…) And now, Facebook is sending them too! Glamour.com recently posted on the topic and so has Yahoo! Shine and the Washington Post. Glamour.com writer Rachel Beckman summed up her experience like this:

Every time I logged in to my home page, Facebook’s ads screamed at me with all the subtlety of a drill sergeant: “MUFFIN TOP.” With the knowledge that I was engaged to be married, the site splashed an ad across the left side of the screen playing into a presumed vulnerability. Do you want to be a fat bride? You’d better go to such-and-such Web site to learn how to lose weight before the big day.”

-Michelle