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If you hadn't had that conversation it would not have mattered that she showed up in autocomplete. You would've thought nothing of it. It's only because you had
by donahue 4y ago
If you hadn't had that conversation it would not have mattered that she showed up in autocomplete. You would've thought nothing of it. It's only because you had the conversation that the name had any significance. Probably hundreds of times it autocompleted names of people from 4 years ago but since there was no corresponding conversation, you didn't take note and just looked past it.
- RobertRoberts 4y agoThere are far, far too many "coincidences" from many people with this same or similar story.
- Denvercoder9 4y agoFar too many based on what? Consider how many chances there are for stories like this: just about everyone owns a phone, and people share things all time.
- RobertRoberts 4y agoAds based on private conversations is my primary experience. People talk about something, never look it up, never search for it, never try to buy it, but they see ads for it.
- colpabar 4y agoI guess the question then becomes "would that name have shown up if op hadn't said it?" And frankly it seems pretty naive to say that it's only an issue because op noticed it this time.
- cyberge99 4y agoI believe that’s called Bader Meinhoff Phenomenon aka “Frequency Illusion”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
- Leszek 4y agoOh weird, I was just reading about that.
- joelvalleroy 4y agoWe know.
- DonHopkins 4y ago"Plate of shrimp"
- kornhole 4y agoI didn't know this was the name of the phenomenon. I suspect others looking this up will come across the great movie called The Bader-Meinhoff Complex.
- sameerds 4y agoIsn't it possible that someone else messaged the Smith's about the conversation, and mentioned OP's name, and then some algorithm made the connection?
- MobileVet 4y agoActually, I would have been dumbfounded as to why it was an autocomplete solution. The letters were not an intersection for the second lady's name.
- mdp2021 4y ago> it would not have mattered that she showed up in autocomplete It certainly would, if you cannot figure out why a query returns an apparently fully unrelated record.