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

By Thought Catalog Updated January 12, 2024

41. I was booking an event for a bachelor party at a go karting venue in Quebec. When I called to book, they answered in French. I don’t really speak the language, but being a polite Canadian, tried my best to ask them, in French, if they could speak in English. For two or three weeks after that conversation, every advertisement on my Facebook feed was in French – not for French services, or Quebec-based businesses – all ads, even the generic ones.

42. Had a conversation in the car with my girlfriend in which the game Battlefield was mentioned. Get to destination, check time on phone, notification from Amazon app telling me Battlefield is on sale… not even a fan of that game, never searched it on Amazon, and Amazon app was not open previously.

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.