facebook showing inappropriate ads

Inappropriate Ads to Kids

hey guys,um we brought this video to your,attention today,because we have a story to tell you um,we had,a tough situation in our family this,week and the more we kind of,started sharing it with our close,friends the bigger we realized that this,needs to get out there our friends were,like this is important,um you need to share it and to save,y'all from having to read a long post,basically we just decided to make a,short video as short as we can,um this week our daughter she's seven,she earned some tablet time then i let,her play our tab my tablet it's my,personal tablet,um and she was playing this game where i,was drying my hair,and while playing this game an ad popped,up for her a video ad it was very,inappropriate,and she brings it to my attention thank,goodness and we talked about it talked,about why it wasn't okay,and i waited sort of for him to get home,to be able to,um talk more about it as parents before,we you know went further into it,and thankfully he's a little bit more,logical than i am i'm a little bit more,naive and he brought in some good points,and so that's why we're doing this,together because we,started playing it after our girls went,to bed that night i told him about it he,was upset,i i was very upset i wanted to see this,ad,for myself so we played this game over,and over and over,and both of us did over about a 45,minute,period trying to see this ad for ourself,and we never saw it it never popped up,for us,we got to thinking why is this not,showing up again because you know most,of the ads repeat,yeah and i i had the idea maybe this is,targeting her,uh is it tailor-made for people uh which,blew our minds a little bit,then we started thinking about it and i,think this is a good point,our ads were all picture ads ads that,could be skipped go on to the next level,this and that,um scarily enough my ads were education,ads and his ads were about agriculture,but again,a picture ad that can be skipped and go,on to the next level so he had a really,good idea,i put another phone in front of my face,so,the tablet couldn't see me it could see,her picture,and immediately the ads changed it,changed from,picture ads that you could skip to video,ads,that were a little bit longer and but,still this ad never popped up we could,not get it to pop up for just us,so we put it away for the night we,talked about it and,the next morning again wanting to figure,out,why it plays for just our daughter we,decided that we could put it in her,hands,and let her try one more time so we,handed her the app the,tablet she played the app and on the,very,first ad guess what popped up,the inappropriate ad immediately and we,became even more scared because we,realized the depth of this ad and i know,we've tiptoed around how to say this,and we're just going to put it out there,speaking truth,for what it is because it is so there's,so many facets to this video,basically what it exposed our children,to was,first off a homosexual relationship,which is something that we you know have,already talked and discussed with our,daughters,but even way further than that it,advertised a lying in a marriage it,advertised adultery in a marriage,it advertised deceit and cheating,on top of all of this okay yes our,antenna went up at the beginning,but it just became so much more when we,realized how many,inappropriate things were targeted and,that our seven-year-old,understood in that minute and a half she,knew,there were two men kissing and,he was hiding they were hiding it from,their wife that they had,on top of fly and she knew they lied in,the video,yeah he was having to keep it a secret,and people were even questioning him why,are you lying about it,she gathered all of this but here's,what's so scary because it's all about,what they um introduced our daughter to,in this amount of time it was a video,that grasped her attention it was played,like a movie trailer,it could not be skipped our daughter had,to sit through the entire minute and a,half to be,able to play the next level or whatever,however it went,um and it knows that children are,more prone to do that okay they're,patient enough to sit through knowing,that the game's coming in just a minute,and so i'm so naive and i want to think,what,that you know it can't happen to us but,it did it,straight up did as even as much as i try,to shelter our children from tablet time,so i guess the whole point that we're,trying to get across here is,teachers i'm a teacher i've put tablets,into children's hands before,wanting them to learn educationally,it happens it's out there it recognizes,either their face or their voice,or in some form it is targeting,our children on purpose there's no,reason why a child,should even see this ad except to,instill this ideology in them,early in life that lying is okay and,there's no way you're going to,convince me otherwise of that it,targeted marketing for children should,be apps,other apps toys you know tv shows,something that should grasp her,attention that would make her want to,buy it i would get that that makes sense,this type of ad is,very much trying to plant a seed in our,child,that is just not okay and so,i'm sure there may be some questions you,know we just want to get the word out,there,um please don't be naive enough to think,that any app is a safe app or any show,is a safe show like somebody pointed,this out to me myself,you would not throw your child into the,pool,and t and hope they learn how to swim,you have to protect them you give them,floaties okay you don't send your son,out on the football team without helmets,and without protection and so that's,what we have to do with our,technology is we have to protect them,turn your,microphones off turn your um like,allowing your camera turn that off i,have a friend that even said i actually,tape,the front cover the front camera i put a,piece of tape over it,so it can't see our child's face and,that seems extreme,but any sort of protection to keep them,from,encountering things like this is,a step in the right direction as parents,and as teachers and his grandparents and,all that sort of stuff,as parents i don't you know i want to,let y'all prepare yourself to talk to,your children about this because you're,going to have to,you're not going to you're not running,but it's coming,um you can shield them from it we made,it to seven,with her and she was exposed to it when,she was five and six,but she didn't really understand it,enough at the time,so just prepare yourself because you're,gonna have to,explain this earlier than you,anticipated,and it's gonna mean more coming from a,parent as opposed,to someone else and then they have to,come home and ask questions about it,later so,as hard as it is to talk about it we are,learning that,ourselves and we just hope that we can,encourage you too

The above is a brief introduction to facebook showing inappropriate ads

Let's move on to the first section of facebook showing inappropriate ads