Surveillance with Social Media

Starting off with this simple question, in this era who doesn't know the government is watching them? Contrary to what I just asked, I used to be a person that didn't believe in that whole "the government is watching us" type of thing. I didn't believe in this statement, but yet I would constantly have adds of things I was going to looks for or just things I was talking to myself aloud on. Now if that didn't tell me the government was on some weird stuff, then I don't even know. Now that I have realized this is true, this is a major invasion on privacy and a huge problem with basically anyone that uses technology. Although we now know we are being surveilled by connection the dots, the government has never told their people that we are being watched which like I said comes back to the privacy issues.