50 Insanely Creepy Stories That Prove Your Phone Is Listening To Everything You Say

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

24. I can’t say my phone was listening to me exactly but I have a coworker who has been slowly bringing up that they’re poly and kinky with me at work. A couple of weeks later I started getting some… interesting advertisements for dating couples, cuddle parties, and other “group activities.”

25. I work at a pharmacy, and I was facing condoms in the ‘family planning’ aisle. My phone was all the way upstairs in my locker. I didn’t say a word about condoms, or mention it to anyone during my shift. After work as soon as I opened Facebook, a Durex ad appeared.

Trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.

“You are the only person who gets to decide if you are happy or not—do not put your happiness into the hands of other people. Do not make it contingent on their acceptance of you or their feelings for you. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if someone dislikes you or if someone doesn’t want to be with you. All that matters is that you are happy with the person you are becoming. All that matters is that you like yourself, that you are proud of what you are putting out into the world. You are in charge of your joy, of your worth. You get to be your own validation. Please don’t ever forget that.” — Bianca Sparacino

Excerpted from The Strength In Our Scars by Bianca Sparacino.