Wow I know #Meta et.al. do some creepy stuff to find out about us. (Google "shadow profiles" if you doubt). But their Instagram app just did something truly weird. It just recommended to me a person who was a childhood friend OVER 50 YEARS AGO. I haven't lived there in 51 years. He no longer lives there either. He currently lives 5 hours by car away from me in a different state. We have had no contact since we were kids. We have NO friends in common. We have no common interests that I can see from his Instagram or Facebook. (In fact, based on some media accounts he follows I doubt we would be super friendly as adults). I literally only knew him because he lived like 8 houses away when I was a child and we went to the same neighborhood church. We just played with Tonka trucks and G.I. Joes together. Kind of dumbfounded at this. Is Meta buying former residence locations from data brokers and matching up people who lived in the same neighborhood as kids? A bit of a reach and really demonstrates how creepy their surveillance infrastructure is. #SurveillanceCapitalism