New by me: Facebook's marketing problem when it comes to sex

This morning I was fired up and wrote a Medium essay/rant, "Facebook Has a Marketing Problem, and It's Spelled S-E-X."



You can see by the responses that I'm not the only one. If you read it, you'll learn I actually respect their decision to refuse adult product ads (though it's frustrating as an erotica editor). However, I'm specifically calling them out on sending me emails and courting my ad dollars on my page, when they will never accept said ads. To me, that's a bad user experience and bad business.

If you like the piece, please click the hands on the left and "clap" for it by holding it down for 1 to 50 claps. The more claps it gets, the more people who see it, and the more I get paid. I'm being told that someone from Facebook will be checking it out, but I'm not holding my breath.

Why I Want My Date to Plan our Dates, Not An App

I use plenty of apps to help me improve my life, but I am finding many that seem to just be allowing people not to think about basic things, like where to go on a date, in the case of Funspotter, so I wrote "How To Ruin Your Love Life: Use This App" for Thought Catalog. Snapshot below is from one of my favorite dates with my current guy.