The Dark Shadow Shrine

embrace the darkness; that you may see the light nestled within it......

Monday, May 19, 2014

Buying 'likes' and 'friends'

An interesting article about how u can now literally BUY friends online...and these friends actually are 'real'; each comes with his own history....
If u have done the online narcissism compre, relate to the point about how the number of friends u have online is a reflection of ur status and popularity....one can thus now 'buy' popularity by paying this website which will run a programme that will create friends that will 'like' u.....
Relate also to the qn about whether majority or numbers is always right....we tend to find websites with high viewership more credible. But now that these high viewership can be manufactured by buying 'likes' and 'friends', are they still reliable?

Note that on social media, because we can't really see who are there, there is always this illusion of numbers. It is a space where the minority can be perceived as the majority. Everything is magnified tenfolds.....not just the news itself, but the people saying it.....Pertaining to the latter, it could be just one person making the comment, but through the social media, viewers may get the impression that the whole nation is making that comment or subscribing to that view.

Qn: 'The majority is always right.' To what extent do you agree with this statement?