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

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

39. My husband and I agreed not to tell anyone the name we picked for our baby that’s due in a couple of weeks. So we have legitimately only talked to each other about his name. Now I am getting random game ads, etc that have the name in it. Once would be a coincidence, but this has happened multiple times.

40. I was suspicious that instagram had been listening to me for a while so i decided to test it by yelling the word “pizza” at my phone over and over. Sure enough, the next day, my feed was filled nothing but ads for Pizza Hut, Dominoes, Digiorno etc. I deleted my IG immediately.

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.