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accepted, to have a community that we can relate to or identify with, and it
is exactly the fear of losing connection with the friends and followers you
have on your social media accounts (not just Facebook) that keeps you
coming back for more.
Social media is still not the full story, because mind control techniques
don’t stop there either. What do you think happens each time to type in a
quick search into your Google browser? Do you genuinely believe that you
have complete autonomy when you’re conducting your online research?
According to Robert Epstein, a psychologist, that’s not what’s happening at
all. What’s really going on is what Epstein calls SEME (Search Engine
Manipulation Effect). The SEME effect is rooted in the fact that each time a
user hops online to search for something, half the time what we end of
clicking on are the first two results that appear on the first page of Google.
More than 90% of the clicks that take place are happening within the top 10
results which Google has displayed in front of you. There are pages and
pages of other results, other websites, and links which still contain the
keywords you’re looking for, but it is Google that ends up “deciding” what
you’re going to end up reading. Which is most of the time, what’s on the
first page? And here we thought we had complete control over our search
choices too.
Dr. Robert Hare, a researcher and an expert in the field of criminal
psychology explains that basic mind control techniques are used all the time
by psychopaths who attempt to form a relationship with someone with the
intention to control and dominate them. The narcissist is another group of
people who frequently resort of mind control tools to coerce their victims
into doing their bidding. Mind control is nothing more than another extreme