Google watching us?

September 8, Thursday, 2022

About 70% of people in the world use Android phones, and Android phones mean Google's services there. There are some apps in Android phones that are directly connected to Google, such as Play Store, Gmail, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and even our mobile operating system. We carry various personal information in these apps, which we do not share with others. There are events in personal life that we sometimes post on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. For example, today I went to the cinema and shared some moments of the movie on Facebook. Which are public and anyone can see them.

On the other hand there are some matters which are highly sensitive and need to be kept confidential. For example, while having sex with someone, some intimate or close moment photos are not shared on any Facebook wall, but some photos are shared on Facebook Messenger or Instagram inbox. But these pictures can keep our privacy in Instagram inbox or Facebook messenger? I know the correct answer, but I doubt it. Let me give you some examples of why I have my doubts.

A friend of mine was asking me, how long a husband should be intimate with his wife to have a happy marriage? Since we were both bachelors, we were very curious about married life. I told him, I have heard in various prank videos on Facebook and YouTube that any girl is satisfied if she can stay for about 10 to 15 minutes. In response, my friend told me, then I might never be able to satisfy my wife because I can only stay for two to three minutes at most while watching any porn video. It was interesting to me, I told him "nowadays there are various herbal medicines which can be used to make any man's arousal last long so that any girl can be satisfied".

On returning home that night, he told me that facebook was showing advertisements of various herbal medicines on his Facebook wall. But how is this possible, when he has never written or searched on Facebook about this drug. Can Facebook read my mind when nothing has been reported to Facebook? Hearing his words, I myself fell into a lot of confusion, how is this possible?

A few more similar incidents have happened to me, and through this I understand that Facebook or Google are monitoring us like CCTV, and listening to every word of our daily life.

I like watching different Hollywood TV series a lot. But I have never shared any screenshots or photos of these TV series with anyone. Download movies from different illegal sites using Gmail only. But a surprising thing is that when I watch the movies, different types of reviews, memes or groups related to those movies come to my Facebook wall. If Google or Facebook did not know my personal affairs or did not monitor me, then Google would never have been able to understand what I was doing, what I was seeing.

I don't know how the algorithms inside the different technologies are arranged, but the algorithms of Facebook or Google are so sensitive and complex that they are able to read the various interesting things hidden in our minds.

That is, Google is monitoring us much like CCTV footage, which applies to all Android phone users. The only way to avoid such surveillance is to use an iPhone instead of an Android phone.