I did some searches on TigerDirect’s website for some solid state drives. Lo and behold, Facebook presents me with an advertisement from TigerDirect for … wait for it … solid state drives!
This isn’t the first time I’ve seen an eerily similar ad from TigerDirect (and others) show up on my Facebook page. This kind of thing happens all the time on the web: private companies track your every move. Your online purchase and websurfing information gets stored and correlated in a marketing database. You almost can’t visit a website without being tracked in some way.
No wonder the NSA can’t resist vacuuming up information from American Internet companies.