Is Big Brother Watching Us?

In 1949, George Orwell wrote the political fiction novel "1984". They say that only a Fool makes predictions about events that will happen in their lifetime. Turns out, Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was safe on that issue as he died in 1950 at the age of 47. Re-reading his book is interesting and in view of what's happening on the internet, a bit prophetic. Its obvious that every time I do any kind of search on the internet, "big brother" is watching. I search for air fares and hours later I start getting popups selling travel packages. Last week I was getting an error code and beeping on our cloths dryer. I Googled the error code to see if I could fix it, and an hour later had a Sears ad come up on Facebook for New Dryers. Amazon and Facebook must be in cahoots as lately I have noticed that if I shop for something on Amazon, it immediately shows up on Facebook. I asked my Son, who is an internet marketer, how its done , and he just grins. Where is it going? I don't think I am being paranoid in being concerned that every time I do a search, somebody or data base thing is keeping a record and adding it to a dossier on me. Maybe after I post this i'll start getting solicitations from a shrink.