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Mad World
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No ad on my laptop, just the tablet. We carry it around in our pockets. We wear it on our wrists. We devote more than 10.5 hours a day to screen time.
Facebook has conducted experiments on us that show how susceptible we are to mind control. In 2012, the company secretly tampered with the news feeds of nearly 700,000 people, manipulating the ratio of emotionally positive to emotionally negative posts, then monitoring the subsequent activity of those users.
What they found is that emotions can be remotely controlled and are highly contagious on the platform. People who saw more unhappy posts showed more unhappy activity and vice versa. Many questioned the experiment’s legality and ethics, wondering if Facebook had triggered any suicides. Facebook apologized for the way the experiments were conducted and promised to conduct them “differently” in the future, with enhanced review. [ link to www.wired.com (secure)] People are very easy to control using emotional triggers disguised as positive reinforcement, and the susceptibility to echo chamber in social media, is terrifying. World of Warcraft utilized this same methodology when when they changed the word 'unrested' to 'normal' and 'normal' to 'rested'. [ link to www.youtube.com (secure)] @4:00-5:00 There's a segment in this episode I can't find. In it, Cartman is hosting a podcast in which he advises who is considered good "friend stock". People with "undesirables" on their list were quickly ostracized by their peers. As the video states people are already signing up (and i agree with their assessment of those who do). It is easy to see it aiding a dictatorship, however i wonder how it would work in a divided populace (such as US).
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