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> I wonder how long it will be before the common person understands that social media has become mass scale social engineering Never. Most people has no intere
by sametmax 9y ago
> I wonder how long it will be before the common person understands that social media has become mass scale social engineering
Never. Most people has no interest in directing their life. They want pre-made solutions to their day to day problems. They don't analyze the news or any kind of information given to them.
If they did, lying again and again and using the same campaign schemes again and again would not work for politicians.
But it does. It always has.
When you see an uproar, it's never because somebody does something bad. It's because either:
- somebody has been badly hurt;
- some kind of important symbol has been badly hurt.
It's an emotional response. No thoughts into that.
- newscracker 9y agoI feel sad that we're (and possibly always were?) in a world where what you've said is true. The collective lack of discernment and the collective lack of outrage (with appropriate action) make it seem like humanity would, probably by the turn of this century, live in one of those dystopian societies that we know of only from science fiction. I'm trying to hold on to hope that there will be a revolution - decentralized communications, strong encryption as defaults, privacy conscious people understanding how they're manipulated and using solutions that help them stay out of "bubbles" and in control of their privacy, etc.