you know a little bit like what do they have what are they doing with this information the theory goes like this facebook s apps use the microphone in your smartphone to eavesdrop on your conversation and then show you a creepily perfect ad in your news feed we asked you if you had a nice similar experiences and we were flooded with responses so. my girlfriend i m out for dinner and proposing to or after dinner the only communication i had made my. be a text message. i was sitting at home just kind of killing time on the social media account when i started seeing these i saw on instagram there was like wedding bands or men right away i was kind of. feeling like how do you know this already so is facebook listening no we re not using anyone s microphone to doing of that we also not using as the context of your conversations but facebook hasn t always been