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Yeah, I've been in a meeting with nobody using the internet and our phones just merely sitting our pockets. 3 hours later I saw ads relevant to the conversation
by nofilter 9y ago
Yeah, I've been in a meeting with nobody using the internet and our phones just merely sitting our pockets. 3 hours later I saw ads relevant to the conversation in the meeting, for which, again, I had not googled or used internet for, on Instagram.
- mkbkn 9y agoMay be the phone's microphone have picked it up.
- nofilter 9y agoThat was my idea as well.
- thesehands 9y agoDo you think this may be a bit of Baader-Meinhof going on?
- 1_player 9y agoProbably. A couple of non technical friends and I were talking about Bitcoin one evening, they had never heard of it. A few days later one of these friends calls me asking how is it possible that he's seeing Bitcoin ads everywhere after we talked. I also thought that's Baader-Meinhof happening, but it doesn't make ads any less creepy.
- samsonradu 9y agoHa, I had a couple of experiences alike also. But then if you look at the big picture, it makes sense. You're a solid target for Bitcoin ads, you're in the same location with 3 other people, likely same demographics, interests, social status etc. and they become a target too? This is all suppositions of course, I have no idea how it works. But I've tried this experiment with my gf once: We both opened Instagram and started talking about a product class that we never saw ads for there, say like shampoos. We even mentioned a few brands and then waited for the ads to hit us. They never did. EDIT We use iPhones
- 1_player 9y ago> you're in the same location with 3 other people, likely same demographics, interests, social status etc. and they become a target too Nice, let's call this technique "advertisement by osmosis" :-)
- maxxxxx 9y agoWhat is Baader-Meinhof? I only know the terrorist group with that name.
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe “Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon” is a name that was applied to the frequency illusion [1] before the term “frequency illusion” was coined. It's a particularly bad case of opaque naming, because even knowing about the terms that make it up gives you no clue what it means (since it doesn't reference the Baader-Meinhof Gang, but instead presumably the experience of the person who coined the term around the time they first encountered the name “Baader-Meinhof Gang”.) Further shortening to “Baader-Meinhof” (perhaps a result of mistaking the name for being named after the discoverers, which would be less opaque, like the Dunning-Kruger Effect, where familiarity with the work of the researchers in question makes the term less opaque) actually makes the term worse, since then it seems like a direct reference or analogy to the group. [1] http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/LSA07illude.abst.pdf http://web.stanford.edu/~zwicky/LSA07illude.abst.pdf
- radiorental 9y agoWhat was in the title/description of the meeting in your calendar app? I'm guessing at least one person in the room was on android and syncing with gcal.
- nofilter 9y agoWasn't even a trace of that meeting virtually, it was a spontaneous over-the-coffee idea. Subject was improv acting, which is something neither of the participants have ever even googled.
- ericb 9y agoI know several other people who have noticed this experience in the last 6 months for the first time. For me, it happened with my Google Now feed and the Netflix show Riverdale (not my cup of tea, but my wife was watching it).