Facebook SocialAds Now Opt-Out

If you hadn’t noticed already, once in a while your friends’ photos have been showing up on ads promoting applications and fan pages. Many were turned off by those ads complaining that making money off of our profiles is crossing the line. Well this morning Facebook’s new privacy settings went live and with it came the option to now opt-out of the personalized SocialAds that leverage our profile picture.

This is a significant step by Facebook, highlighting that Facebook has granted a higher priority to user privacy over monetization.

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