I don't want a shopping experience

 

I'm told that if places like Facebook use my data it will enhance my shopping experience. 

Sounds like so much blah, blah that corporations and politicians use to hide what they really mean.

I don't want a shopping experience. I despise shopping anywhere. When I need something, I will go to wherever I can get that product be it on line or in a store as fast as I can, find it, buy it, get out before I ruin more of my day. In a store, I try not to look right or left just get to the object and get the hell out. On line, I play the fill-out-the-form game with or without getting a code. If it takes too long, I often decide I can do without whatever I was going to buy.

My husband often will go into a mall. I'll sit in the car and read, so store time won't be destroying my life. 

My idea of a shopping experience is not to shop. I have what I need. I don't want anything else cluttering up my house, my life or taking my time from things I enjoy.

Facebook seems to be increasing their ads. It's anywhere from merely annoying to infuriating.   

Likewise CNN International and ITV have repeated their ads so often, I know the words by heart. Also annoying. However, when ads are on, I can use it for bathroom time, or to put the dishes in the dishwasher. I can even take a quick shower or read a chapter in a book, do a sketch, play with the dog, etc.

I said to my daughter when I was visiting her in the States, that it seemed the programs were interrupting the ads.

As a retired marketer, I know that companies need to sell their products, but seeing the same ad over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over makes me want to not buy their product. 

I know I sound like a COW, Cranky Old Woman, but life is too short to be bothered by things that are absolutely useless to me especially when it reduces my pleasure in other things I want to be doing or seeing.

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