Online Manipulation Made Easy
July 11, 2019
Do you want to manipulate one or more people using social media or other online communication channels? Science Focus reduces the approach to a selection of ten effective techniques. “Nudge Theory: 10 Subtle Pushes That Change How You Think” is a distillation of the University of Chicago techniques plus some spice imported from Cambridge University. What are the methods? Here’s a snapshot of five of the 10. Navigate to the source document for the complete list:
- Simplify. Yep, keep it simple stupid.
- Make things easy and convenient. Yep, easy. Convenient like search results which come from a curated subset which people perceive as comprehensive but are not.
- Disclosures. Think unsealing court records from the Epstein Florida case.
- Ask questions. Just don’t ask, “Does the person asking the question have an ulterior motive?”
- Remind people. This is called “nagging.”
See. You too can be a master of online manipulation. Simple, convenient, backed by proof, and just like a nagging partner. Is that great?
Stephen E Arnold, July 11, 2019
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