• Everything you are doing online is being tracked, watched every single action you take is monitored throughly.
• Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.
• Facebook discovered that they were able to defect real world behaviours and emotions without triggering the users awareness.
• If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.

Your attention is the product that is being sold to advertisers.
• Typing... It is not used to save your time but to keep you engaged for longer.
• Social media isn& #39;t a tool waiting to be used. It has its own goals, and it has its own means of pursuing them by using your psychology against you.
• The technology that connects us also controls us.
• Exactly, what image you look at, for how long you look at, everything is tracked.
• We’ve created a world in which online connection has become primary.

And yet, in that world, anytime two people connect, the only way it’s financed is through a sneaky third person whose paying to manipulate those two people.
• Social media isn& #39;t a tool waiting to be used. It has its own goals, and it has its own means of pursuing them by using your psychology against you.
• The platforms make it possible to spread manipulative narratives with phenomenal ease, and without very much money.
• Over time you have the false sense that everyone agrees with you.

Because everyone in your news feed sounds just like you.

Once you& #39;re in that state, it turns out you& #39;re easily manipulated.
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