Facebook has come up with what I believe is a very creative way to get more information about their ads by allowing Facebook users to judge their own Facebook ads. They use thumbs up and thumbs down at the bottom of the ad, and then lets you provide a reason for your vote with options. Here is one example of what this new ad looks like:

When you thumb down, you get the following options:

  • Misleading
  • Offensive
  • Pornographic
  • Uninteresting
  • Irrelevant
  • Repetitive
  • Other

When you thumb up, you get these options:

  • Interesting
  • Relevant to me
  • Good offer
  • Other

If Facebook has not patented these ad styles, I highly expect to see this style of ad feedback coming to many ads in the near future, and thereby rendering them useless as people begin to ignore them as they become too common.