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

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

30. We received a LEGO set as a present, so I hadn’t looked at it in the online shop or googled it before. On the day we were building it, I got LEGO ads on my social media, which has never happened before and hasn’t happened since the set is finished either.

31. I open Facebook and a girl, I don’t have the number of, don’t go to the same school as, don’t really live near (about 2 hours away) and my only connection with is rock climbing together (friend of a friend) gets recommend to me. Wouldn’t be so weird but I don’t even have the friend she’s a friend of on Facebook…. Like how do you know this shit about my life.

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.