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Everything that you now see, hear, watch and read online and on social

media is manipulating you in one way or another. Before the days of social

media, we had far fewer manipulative threats to contend with. Today, news

spreads around the world in mere seconds with a simple click of a mouse,

and because the power of the internet is one that anyone who can string

several sentences together can take advantage of, we’re now more
susceptible than ever to content which has been fabricated, exaggerated,

distorted, simplified and presented in such a way that it is purposely meant

to skew our perception. It’s almost as if the media today exists to make you

do things that you otherwise might not say or do.

When you go online onto a company’s website and read the product

reviews on the site, who’s to say that those reviews were not written by the

marketing team for the company in an effort to make their products look

good? It’s almost too good to be true that a company’s product reviews

would be nothing but 5-star ratings and praise about how “blown away” the
customers were that the product worked wonders for them. If you’ve ever

bought a product online based on these “reviews” only to be let down

because it failed to live up to the hype and expectations, there’s probably a

good reason for it. A business’s sole purpose is to sell, and they are not

above fabricating the truth if it means those tactics are going to boost their
sales figures up a notch.

Both traditional and social media have had a long history of pulling the

strings behind the curtains, and they’ve been able to get away with it for so

long because many of us still fail to see what’s happening right in front of
our eyes. On some level, we know it’s happening, yet we continue to allow

it to influence our thoughts and sometimes the decisions that we make. How