It appears you don’t understand how data mining works.
Chocolate chip cookies - Nabisco, cookie manufacturers, cooking supplies stores may be interested in you.
Paintings - art supplies, museums (yes, for fundraising), art dealers may be interested in you
Hair cuts - BoRicks, Bubbles,Vidal Sassoon, Miss Clairol may be interested in you.
Now multiply that’s by hundreds of millions of other Facebook users and. You’ve got quite a lot of valuable data that businesses can profit from.
And that’s just from 3 examples you pulled out of your a$$.
As a corporation, I request searches of users with “likes” relevant to my business and Facebook has the capacity to churn it out. All for a fee, of course.
At least the survey takers at the mall would pay you 5 buxs for you answers. You give this stuff up for free, every day.
Hey, you forgot to mention “proctology”. After all, I am apparently pulling examples out of my....well, you know.
I understand my data mining game, which is why I don’t specific “like” products, businesses, ppl adds on FB. So they look at my Aunt FeeFee’s recipe and see that I like it. So what. There is a difference.
Heck, if you wish you may as well include ANY shopping on the internet or at the grocery store (unless you don’t use one of those bogus “store cards”, and only pay in cash).