[thewarrior]

Reading all the creepy anecdotes in the thread ...

Possibility 1 : Facebook is snooping on your conversations.

Possibility 2: Their machine learning algorithms are getting creepily good at predicting your wants and needs.

Both are scary.

[shalmanese]

Possibility 3: With a large enough userbase, all sorts of crazy co-incidences happen. If 1.4 billion users login every day, 1 in a million co-incidences happen once a minute.

[thewarrior]

I concede but only upto a point. Do go to the thread read all the crazy coincidences :P . Their targeting is definitely improving.

[tedunangst]

Confirmation bias? How many times was the author shown ads for exterminators before this incident but paid them no attention?