They don't send them. They appear in the periphery of what I'm doing. It's internet marketing in its most basic sense. Look at this page for example. Full of ads informed by your own google searches.
My facebook ads contain stuff for bike films, walking shops, maps and links to other stuff. Does it bother me? No. I can ignore it.
Still not scared of facebook.
and re: updates emailed to me? I just turn them off. Simple. I pull information from FB rather than have it pushed on to me.
Look at this page for example. Full of ads informed by your own google searches.
no it isn't
STW is the closest I'll get to social networking. I had a facebook account for about a week due to email requests from contacts but I quickly cancelled.
Other than STW, I read the news and check email and occasionally buy stuff. 
I use it, keep in contact with people. Family spread out around the country (and now world). Share photos (currently my sister is in OZ and uploads the occasional albumn). Arrange things, plenty of partie sand events are on facebook. It's more convenient than looking for emails.
I have several friends who have blogs. Two examples being a friend who is currently working on a ship in Antartica and another who has just finished a gap year. Facebook is very similar but doesn't require the commitment from the poster. In some ways this is good but in others this is bad as some people say a lot that isn't worth saying. I don't have many friends who constently poke me or throw sheep or whatever so it isn't a problem.
I only have real friends and family as "friends". My mum is my friend on facebook, mostly because it's easy to show photos wen we live 200 miles apart.
Facebook is the most pointless invention known to man. I think even the wife is tiring of it now thank god..!
Look at this page for example. Full of ads informed by your own google searches.no it isn't
i know, but we're not allowed to talk about that.
It's in the news today. Apparently, some think the company is worth £32Bn!?!?They get £1.2Bn a year from advertising.
That's one hell of a multiple!
No. £32Bn ... WTF! There must be so many mad people around ... 
tosh when a company that produces nowt has so much value... scary stuff really when you think about it.
I closed my account becasue the updates I read from people were all dull
Facebook has changed so much from when it started out.
Many industry experts are saying that its undervalued, why? because people can now 'like' companies, bands, brands etc etc. a bit of data mining on who likes your products gives you the most up to date market research you could ever hope for. For record companies and film studios this is invaluable. kids still download and buy media and pay for it, its the older people who rip it for free.
This 'like' feature is also basically free advertising for the 'in' products and bands, again invaluable for the companies it affects. If the cool kids at school are liking a band everyone else will...
the next step of facebook could be charging companies to have their products available to be 'liked'. all of a sudden that valuation looks pretty realistic.
kids still download and buy media and pay for it
What kids??
I very reluctantly signed up a couple of months ago – mainly because a lot links ended up at the FB login page – I do you Twitter a fair bit and that is sometimes a way of marshalling thought for my self rather then self promotion
A large part of my decision to sign up to FB was the growing realisation that it is becoming a primary method of communication – as the mobile phone was 15 -20 years ago
Still not keen and to be honest don’t really understand it – but at least I’ve got my foot in the door
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