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I don't use facebook myself (have an account, but never touch it) so I'm a bit confused about one thing.

Who would actually, seriously "like" something like Prostitutes or Racism? It seems that fields like that would have literally no serious responses, beyond a bunch of frat boys goofing around.

Or is that the only expectation for searches like this anyway?

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Personally, I don't doubt that people with questionable shared interests have made contact with one another through FB.

World's a weird place at times. The Internet kind of dilates the portal into those spaces.

I believe a lot of these are when the interests box were free form, and people put all kinds of junk in it - then Facebook converted these fields into structured data and auto liked all these pages.

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