[aaronbrethorst]

This is a nice, albeit reductive hypothesis.

Literally the last thing I did before posting this comment was email a link to a Facebook in-app ad’s advertised product to myself because I wanted to look at it in more detail tomorrow.

I wasn’t looking for the product it was advertising, but I see how it could be extremely useful for me if it works.

[foerbert]

The post qualified that position with an exceptionally mild "most likely." A single counterexample is hardly a reason to criticize it as reductive.

Unless you do this with the majority of the ads you see, and you believe this is a common experience for most people?