‘Creepy & Scary’: US military harnesses social media to manipulate online behaviour

[johnlucas]

26. Correct. Everybody wants to be famous.

Everybody wants to be their own kind of celebrity.
It's a natural thing. We all need to be recognized & desired.
They play on that human need & let the private sector come up with ways for people to blab all their business willingly.

I came to the internet for a project. I was trying to get a storyline to a big company.
From there I looked at the internet much like I do today.
As a library & an entertainment source.

I see the positive potential of this spy device by putting out a thought no one else has quite assembled.
To give people a fresh point of view when they're stuck in a A-to-B argument.
I say what about C? What about D? What about 1, 2, 3? What about a, j, z?

Understanding media is the key in this information age.
And media doesn't just mean newspapers, movies, TV, radio.
I mean Media in its most original definition: The Go-Between within Two Points.
The Middle. The Center. The Medium. Media is plural of Medium which means Middle, Center.

Anything that passes a message between two points, between two people, between speaker & audience is MEDIA.

Media is your gossipy neighbor down the block, it's a drawing on notebook paper given to a friend, it's a dance on a public street, it's body language in the supermarket.

What can I do using this MEDIUM called the Internet to pass a message?

That's why I love forums so much.
An argument ground where I can shift the boundaries of the argument just by adding that unique point of view no one else quite considered.

This is the mistake the government made.
Power like I said is liquid. A little bit always seeps between the fingers into the hands below.
Sure, the government's tracking us & tracing us by having us root our daily activities on the Internet.
That's THEIR power.
OUR power is doing our little piece to transform thoughts & change points of view to pass a necessary message.
Double edged sword to everything.

Even though they designed this system to better control the actions & thoughts of the populace, they'll never have full control.
Having an agile mind is the key to surviving the negative side of the Information Age.

Everybody doesn't use the Internet to its true potential, it's true.
Some people just wanna be famous, yeah.
What I ate last night, my argument with my boyfriend/girlfriend, silly pics & posts on Facebook, Twitter, & Google+.
But some of us use this spy network to shape the machine in a whole new way.
Leaders will always be fewer than Followers. It's nature's way.

John Lucas