Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert):
I would argue that the human mind has recently evolved to include the thinking process of social media as a whole. We’re connected to social media like a great hive mind. And thanks to scientific advances in datametrics, the social media companies now have almost perfect mind control technology. (…)
Link: The Social Media Hive Mind »
Related video:
https://youtu.be/dAAUD7jtFas
I knew it! I don’t have social media except the blog, but I feel this happening there, in comment fields everywhere (is anyone reading this?), maybe even in good old e-mail! (I remember reading something about Microsoft spam filters long ago…)The read statistics on my blog about privacy are likely kept way lower than real, to make me feel like I’m talking alone in a soundproofed chamber.