I've been eating breakfast cereal, a couple of my signature recipe, home-made waffles or a McDonalds Sausage Egg McMuffin from the drive-thru for the last couple months but I made some scrambled eggs for the first time yesterday in a long time. I ate one of my leftover waffles for desert the night before that. It wasn't a big deal but the eggs thing has been on my mind as I might start making eggs again on a more regular basis. This will be important later.
For the past couple of days on my short drive to work I've noticed a car down the street from my house that's not usually there. A house guest perhaps? Normally this wouldn't be a big deal but because of the pandemic I worry about people spreading the germs. We're not supposed to be having company over after all. Especially guests from out of state which is why the New Mexico license plates on this car concerns me more than usual. I really wish people wouldn't be traveling across the country right now. This also will be important later.
As I scroll through my Facebook feed, as one does, every so often there will be ads that are eerily related to things I've recently discussed or thought about or did. I bought some Top Ramen for the first time in a really long time last week. The next day I had it for lunch an add popped up for Top Ramen when I got back to work that same day. I've never seen an ad for Top Ramen or any kind of instant ramen ever, and now suddenly I'm seeing it. It's creepy and will be important in a second.
Yesterday I decided to click the "hide ad" button for a Chik-Fil-A ad because, fuck that place. I don't need that kind of negativity chicken in my feed. When you decide to hide an ad Facebook asks you to give a reason why you want to hide it. It has choices like "irrelevant" "I already purchased" "repetitive" but one of them really threw me off. One reason to hide an ad was "Knows too much" What the hell? I'd say me buying and eating Top Ramen without ever openly discussing it and getting an ad for it the same day is definitely them "knowing too much" Which leads me to the main topic of this article. Today while scrolling I see an ad for Denny's restaurant. Not just Denny's but a very specific Denny's.
At first I thought this must just be a mistake or that maybe Denny's is randomly blasting out ads for random locations. Then I started to remember my actions of the last couple of days and how it may be relevant to this ad. The events I detailed above started coming back to me and I wondered. 'No? Could it be?' My best logical conclusion is that all of these events combined must have been telepathically sent to the Facebook advertising servers. Obviously, the algorithm's artificial intelligence had somehow deduced that I needed to see advertisments for the Signature Slams at a very specific Denny's restaurant at 1317 Riverside Drive in Espanola, New Mexico.
1 comment:
Yeah dude, my friend said she was jumping around in the pool at the gym and then she sees an ad for jumpsuits, like an all body leotard. They’re listening.
I bet your phone heard your says to yourself “what the fuck, New Mexico, go home travelers.” Or something to that effect and then the algorithm was like “go to New Mexico” “travel” “pancakes”, etc.
It’s hella creepy!
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