I told our mom that Facebook is listening to everything that the people I live with and I say in our homes and in our office… My mom told myself and others that we were crazy.
She told myself and others that we smoke too much pot and the weed is making myself and others paranoid. She typically says I smoke too much pot. She told myself and others that it was against the law for corporations to listen to our conversations! I knew that wasn’t true for sure. Every one of us spent an hour researching the legality of our conversation before I proved this point to our Mom. I turned off my phone and I put it upside down on the table in front of us. I told our mom to tell myself and others what she wanted for christmas, then of course, I had no plan what our mom would say because it was the middle of June. It wasn’t a conversation with the people I live with and I had any time in the past month or more, so I knew it was a safe way to prove our ridiculous point. My mom told myself and others about a cool griddle that looks akin to a gas grill. I’ve seen them before; they do look pretty neat. Every one of us talked for many or fifteen hours and then I picked up our PC and went right to facebook. I refreshed the page and new ads finished making up on the side of the screen. The digital advertising ads are targeted based on our conversations. Three of the five digital advertising advertisements were for grills or griddles. One digital advertising advertisement was the exact item that our mom described to me. My Mom was shocked and swiftly worried about what she says at night in her dining room.