Have you ever wondered why your google search seems to reflect on other social media platforms you browse on? this post exposes Why Your Google Search is linked to Facebook.<\/p>\n
Have you ever searched for something, anything on Google and few minutes later while you surf Facebook, you see an ad on exactly what you were searching on Google? Then when you wish to follow up YouTube to watch latest videos, you see another ad that is once again exactly what you searched on Google.<\/p>\n
How are all these platforms connected? Or is your<\/em> information being sold to third party advertisers without your knowledge? Or is something mysterious at play here?<\/p>\n If you don’t understand what this is about. Then search for a physical object or anything like bitcoin, cryptocurrency, coding, things that you would normally never search for or look up. Enter like three or four blogs and just glance through then wait for a few minutes. Now go to YouTube. Look at those sponsored ads that are usually displayed at the top of the video list or even among your queue of undownloaded videos. Does it ring a bell?<\/p>\n Now go to Facebook and surf, don’t intentionally<\/em> search for those terms. Just look through pictures that people post and voila! a sponsored ad carrying your google search is bound to show up on your timeline.<\/p>\n So many people have noticed this. They may for example look up “coding” on Google, and then when they go to Facebook, they see boot camps and online coding trainings. Then they go to YouTube and see the same thing. Or, when they searched for something related to novels and writing, they saw ads on Youtube directing them to apps to download novels.<\/p>\n At this point, are they supposed to be worried, or are they just overthinking<\/em>?<\/p>\n Now that’s not all. There’s been a lot of concerns about if our phones are spying on us in some way. People on popular quora<\/a> platform have even said a lot about how the private discussions they had with someone or even a random thought that popped up in their mind somehow found its way into their social media timelines.<\/p>\n Now people are concerned if their phones are listening in on their conversations or it’s just a mere coincidence.<\/p>\n To demonstrate, a lady had given an instance of how she was discussing with her colleagues to give it a try and so all of them intentionally spoke about eating bananas for lunch in the office inorder to see if their theory was true.<\/p>\n True to it, they turned on their social media in the afternoon and started seeing ads related to banana. Snacks and lunch ideas made with banana, hair products made with banana. Although, this discovery was frightening to say, it still doesn’t prove anything.<\/p>\n