So you all know that I took a trip recently. On the way home, I was sitting in a bar during a layover enjoying a far too over-priced beer at the Montreal airport while doodling in my travel journal, when I noticed something strange on my Google homepage.
When I opened the Google app on my phone, below the search bar where it usually displays weather and stuff, was this:
Google knew exactly which flight I was taking and decided to be overly helpful and display it’s details and status without any prompting.
I get that Google got the details from my email, but still. It’s kinda creepy. Like the stalker that would make an incredible assistant because they already know your schedule, except for the fact that they’re totally stalking you.
Please stop stalking me Google. Also, everyone knows that the key to a good relationship is trust and I can’t trust you if you’re reading my emails behind my back without my permission. That’s like relationship 101 Google.
Get your shit together.
And also thank you. That was super helpful.
I really don’t know how to feel here.
PS – this is the doodle I was working on when I discovered that Google was stalking me. Oddly very apt.
I DID LEAVE A COMMENT EARLIER! and it was, uh, “topical” and clever and such. i’ll bet you deleted it because I was uncharacteristically NORMAL.
but gr8 doodle, really!
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I never delete comments! I don’t know what happened – I didn’t even see it. Could you re-create it? I always love a clever and topical comment.
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I love your doodle!
Also, the internet is super creepy. Judgement day will happen when skynet goes online and starts sending us all dick picks, and then gets super angry and nukes us when we won’t reply.
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uh, do I wanna or need to know or i’ll prob’ly be bedder awph, if I don’t know what are dik-pix?
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If life has not yet forced the knowledge on you, then you’re probably better off not knowing about dick pics (no k, I typoed in my first comment). Probably not a good one to google out of curiosity either.
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welllll, after my prostate=cancer=surgery (in a parallel life I had “sugar-y”) I either finally NEED dik=pix or prob’ly the need is considerably less probably.
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I love everything about this comment. Gold, my friend.
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You are definitely better off not knowing!!! For the love of God, don’t Google it.
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LOL
I’ve never thought of that but omg that will probably happen. The first thing that happened with camera phones & the Internet was unanswered dick pics.
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Also, how awkward are dick pics?!?! I’ll never get over it.
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So awkward.
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It is getting just too creepy Google, Facebook no where is safe lol, it’s like when someone is being overly helpful that it just becomes a hindrance.
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Couldn’t have said it better myself Angela! 🙂
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I feel like Facebook is just as creepy. I was private messaging with my girlfriend while she was in Cabo and I asked her where she was… and she told me. Then not even 4 minutes after that conversation, an advertisement for a resort in cabo appeared in my feed. NOT OKAY FACEBOOK
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Right?!?!
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Love your blog, btw!
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Thank you my dear!
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Seriously. Loves. You might be my new blogger best friend. 😉
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Oh perfect! I’m always looking for people who are secretly awful like me. When I’m not cooking food I’ll have a look see at yours too ☺️☺️
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Thanks! No rush. Food is my first love in this world and takes priority above all else, so I totally understand. 😉
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NO! whutcha meen: every time I look at something (or hevvin 4-bid, order sum-tang1) I — @ 1st wuzz surprise-u-lated at the ads — “is that ad for hockey goalie leg pads shown to EVERYBODY?!!” — apparently not.
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Nope, ads are targeted for you based on the things you click and your Google history and stuff. You can get an ad blocker that will stop that if you like.
Personally, I like it. Keeps my ads interesting. One of my most recent was a JURASSIC PARK quote: “God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherites the earth.”
Goddamn, I STILL want that hoodie.
Stupid AdSense.
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I don’t know how that doodle makes me feel.
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That’s ok! Art’s pretty interpretive, that’s the beauty. I thought he was cute in a frazzled kind of way. 🙂
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Oh and by the way, you should do more doodles. You are pretty good at them.
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Thanks! 😀
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You know Facebook is a stalker too. I read somewhere that if you keep your Facebook on one tab, it is gleaning information from all your searches that you do on other tabs. Talk about stalker. Not that I go to Facebook much, but when I do I usually shut it down if I’m going elsewhere, like when I search how to do a screenshot in Windows.
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You are just never gonna let me live that down are you? ;-P
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Of course not. I’m pretty annoying that way.
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I would honestly expect nothing less. 😉
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Finally living up to someone’s expectations!
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Feels good doesn’t it?
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Actually, no. Because now you are going to expect me to meet you expectations every time and I don’t like that idea. I prefer to disappoint.
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Don’t over think it. 😉
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Overthinking is what I do. It keeps me from talking out loud to people. You’re just the lucky one that has to read about my overthinking at the moment. Aren’t you just the luckiest!
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Don’t I know it. 😉
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Ugh! Creepy. (And yet, chuckling at how you spun it!)
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Thanks lady!! I was definitely feeling conflicted about it at the time lol.
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Ugh. Creepy.
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