Dangers of the Twitter Hive Mind
Filed under: Computers, Conspiracies, Corporations, Government, Human Intelligence, Science, Science Fiction, Social Media, Technology
Post submitted by anonymous investigator. Views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of The Loki Times.
Twitter, tweets, and tweetbacks. Harmless sounding words we hear more and more as the popularity of the social networking and micro-blogging service grows at an exponential rate. But the explosive growth of Twitter has left us little time step back to analyze the threat it poses to mankind. A new ‘Big Brother’ is growing right in front of our eyes. It is the all knowing Twitter hive mind.
The Twitter hive mind feeds on our thoughts, personalities, moods, and ideas. Everytime someone tweets, a snippet of information is sent to a growing pool of data. This data pool reflects a large part of mankind’s collective consciousness. While the everyday Twitter user might not care, large corporations and governments do. They can analyze this data to learn more about the people they seek to control.
Lying in the superficially inane flow of Tweets are patterns of thought which groups like the Illuminati can use to manipulate the minds of citizens. Right now, researchers are developing sensors that can be paired with Twitter in order to deliver a constant stream of information regarding everything from your heart rate to mood (read here).
And we can’t ignore studies showing that Twitter could be destroying our capacity for emotion and empathy (read here). The thought is that the constant data-stream sent through a service like Twitter is shortening our attention spans and preventing reflection on what we’re reading, therefore reducing our ability to feel emotion. This all snowballs into a sort of brainwashing in which we become little more than living conduits of information. This brainwashing effect only further serves the purposes of those who will learn how to use Twitter for their own nefarious ends.
So the next time you hear someone Tweet, “I just ate a bagel for breakfast”, or “On my way to work”, remember that those simple words could be contributing to the downfall of mankind.
Twitter – Dangerous or Harmless. What do you think?