Facebook marketplace is lightly terrifying. – The Bloggess

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We’re moving to a smaller place and so I’ve been selling some things on Facebook marketplace, and I started with just normal descriptions but then I got bored and everything I’m posting now is ridiculous but I figure if I’m going to write ad copy it’s going to be entertaining, even if it’s just to me.

But I’m pretty sure I fucked with the algorithm because below are 15 of the local suggestions that have been given to me this week, and they are slightly terrifying because several of them are really speaking to me and I have to keep reminding myself that I need to be downsizing.

Am I the only one who gets stuff like this?

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