Their rules become your game

An insightful post by Reena.

Reena Saxena

The Influence of
Social Media

The reach of the social media is utilized

• to project politically motivated opinions and
  ideologies.
• to drown the voices of sanity by trolling.
• To generate user content for the business
  entities which make their millions through it.
• To divide the population into manageable chunks,
  so that they never become a powerful unified lobby. Issues that can whip up a
  frenzy of emotion are carefully chosen.
• To divert attention from other issues that can
  expose the Lobbies. People are busy celebrating ‘never-heard-before’ Days and Weeks,
  or analysing the implications of an isolated statement, rather than think about
  the economic issues or corruption in high echelons.
• To crowd-source ideas for rationalization of
  their actions. The same are immediately repackaged and sold.
• To collect qualitative and quantitative data on
  opinions and waves, which is used for conversion to vote banks.
• To encash on popular sentiment.
• To collect inputs…

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