“The other night, I did an experiment. I started talking out loud in my own home about a pool monitoring system. Shortly thereafter, Facebook sent me one ad after another about, yup, you guessed it, pool monitoring systems.
Who was listening to me? Was it you, Siri? How about you, Alexa? Google Mini, could you REALLY hear me all the way from the kitchen?”
I propose that everyone in America suddenly start talking about Adirondack chairs:
“A similar thing happened to me a few years ago. My wife and I were driving somewhere and I happened to mention that Adirondack chairs were more comfortable than they looked. Hadn’t mentioned or even thought of Adirondack chairs in years, never owned any, never shopped for any. Her phone was on but in her purse. Mine was turned off in the desk drawer at home where it spends 99% of its time.
Within a few hours we were getting ads on our home computer for, yup, you guessed it, Adirondack chairs.”
Worse has happened to me. I was conversing with my brother, when his phone on the kitchen counter activated for no reason and started playing a time-delayed recording of our conversation. True story.
I have not met anyone yet that this advertising phenomenon has not happened to.
Why would you have any of that crap in your house, let alone turned-on in your house?
Wife, daughters, and dogs don’t listen to me. It’s all I got.
Alexa is nothing but a major Karen I can tell you that.
Hmm…all I ever talk out loud about is tuna but the only ads I get are for Meow Mix.
So, how come I keep getting e-mails from lonely women in my area?
They can read your thoughts as well.
I spoke briefly about Oppo and Walrus, and immediately got an ad for Puff Pastries… what does it mean?
You needed to say please.
What does anything mean?
Everything.
Next time it’ll be the Stay-Puft Man.
Constant “Gas-X” ads.