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03-11-2016, 09:53 PM
Man discovers ex-girlfriend's pregnancy through Google Play
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LONDON — When you're downloading a new app for your phone, the last thing you expect to find out is something as potentially life-changing as an ex-partner's pregnancy, but that's what recently happened to one British man.*
Android user "Ben" told BBC Radio 4's consumer show You & Yours (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072hlyf) he discovered his ex's big news in the Google Play store through a section that shows you what your friends are recommending, based on what they may have reviewed or +1'd.*
SEE ALSO: Husband learns wife is pregnant from her Fitbit data (http://mashable.com/2016/02/10/fitbit-pregnant/)
"I was downloading an app to my Android phone... and it basically showed me that my ex-girlfriend had rated a pregnancy app," Ben (whose last name was withheld), told the BBC programme. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/11/google-play-pregnancy/)
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LONDON — When you're downloading a new app for your phone, the last thing you expect to find out is something as potentially life-changing as an ex-partner's pregnancy, but that's what recently happened to one British man.*
Android user "Ben" told BBC Radio 4's consumer show You & Yours (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072hlyf) he discovered his ex's big news in the Google Play store through a section that shows you what your friends are recommending, based on what they may have reviewed or +1'd.*
SEE ALSO: Husband learns wife is pregnant from her Fitbit data (http://mashable.com/2016/02/10/fitbit-pregnant/)
"I was downloading an app to my Android phone... and it basically showed me that my ex-girlfriend had rated a pregnancy app," Ben (whose last name was withheld), told the BBC programme. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/11/google-play-pregnancy/)
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