This week I was looking at facebook and noticed that, above one of the typical banner ads you see, they have a button you can press to “create your own ad”. I was curious, and clicked on it and was presented with this page:
Apparently Facebook will let you create your own ads to present to people through facebook itself. That means I don’t necessarily have to be a verified business in order to have an advertisement on facebook, I can just go through the proper channels on this page and have my ads appear on other people’s facebook pages. I was truly surprised by this, because I always thought that the ads that appear on websites are semi-legit, but according to this anyone can make an advertisement and have it be shown to hundreds of people on facebook!