A little bit creepy

For a variety of (unimportant) reasons, I have not been able to blog for a while, but now I can, and I found this interesting (and a bit scary). Yesterday, I was at a planning meeting at my church, and one of the conversation topics was a desire for a separate phone number for church business, for the pastor. One suggestion, for example, was simply a second line through ATT. I suggested thereght be some other options, and offered to look into it. Then, today, what should appear in my FaceBook feed, but this advertisement...

Now, the product actually seems pretty good, and we might get it, but what concerns me is the timing of the ad. I had never considered such a product before, and I had never seen an ad for it... and yet there it was... just a day after I verbally offered to look into it. It might be purely a coincidence ... but i tend to not like coindcidences. In these days of AI Helpers offering to analyse your email for you, and some want to track everything you do so you can immediately pick up where you left off, etc, it makes me wonder if something on my phone is listening more than I realize. Maybe I don't have to say, "Hey Siri" or "Alexa"... maybe it's listening more than I know. Hopefully, I am wrong, and it was a simple coincidence, but in these days of the Privacy Revolution... who knows? I guess time will tell. Stay safe everyone... oh, and be suspicious. No harm in being suspicious.