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

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

26. My dad and I were talking on the phone and he was telling me about how he had to bug-bomb his work truck because he had seen a few ants and roaches. I commiserated and said that I also had helped my friend bug-bomb his car once too after he left a bunch of food in it while on deployment.

Within hours of that phone call I was getting ads for bug-bomb on all my social media.

27. My aunty was talking about some meme she saw on Facebook, and when my sister went to the explore tab on Instagram like 10 minutes later, the first picture was the exact same meme that our aunty was talking about.

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.