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

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

34. Put away some food in Tupperware that my roommate had bought several years ago. Opened phone to ad for that exact Tupperware.

35. Recently my partner and I started watching Botched Up Bodies on Netflix, now all her Facebook ads are for plastic surgery, and she’s definitely never googled it.

36. I was telling my husband about a long running discussion between me and my father that involved model ships. Next time he opened Facebook, ads for model ships. And that was when I started looking at building a Faraday cage.

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.