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		drusepth on March 27, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook activated my dormant account and won’t le... Hey, sorry. I edited my comment to clarify shortly after posting it, but I imagine you probably loaded the page in the meantime and responded later. I run ads on Facebook for several Facebook pages and additionally promote their posts (using the per-post boosting) fairly regularly.

koolba on March 27, 2017 [–]

Okay that makes sense. I thought it was from the perspective of a John Q. User who has a Facebook account.

In your example though the Ads are the product you're paying for. Not the Facebook account that is purchasing them, though I see how they're inherently linked.

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