Social media groups like facebook, twitter, linkedin, myspace, digg, readit, permalink, and finally--tumblr are in my humblr opinion the obvious pick out of all the potential choice-methods for the largest, most corrupt, and dominating capital institutions (like BANKS & GOVERNMENTS) of the World to gather (or pay others to gather) general information about common people.
In contrast to the recent past days, when a public census was more highly valued by these institutions; now-a-days, it's volumes of our web page history and social media venues that are the modern day versions of the public census.
It is clear to most that large corporations who can access our catagorized "wants" wish to sell more of their saturated debris to us so they can profit whether creating harmony or disharmony here and/or abroad. And it is mind-boggling to me that our elected leaders are being managed and swayed in the interest of these corporate profiteers versus their voting body.
Simply said, they choose profit over people all day and that is exactly how our politics, economy, and foreign policies have arrived where they are "hanging-on" to this last day of 2011.
It really is a funny thought to think that peoples' general likes and dislikes, when compiled into graphs and charts are more telling than not. And likely, they are more valuable to corporate interest than most could ever imagine--according to what products, platforms, and authorships will succeed in general when presented to a larger audience.
What is ironic to me is that most folks in this western capitalistic society think these specific social media groups (listed in the first sentence) were created merely so they could better keep in touch with business associates, family, and/or groups of their so-called "friends"...
Large corporations appealing to humanity's ever prevalent draw towards narcissism, gossip, and depression is perfectly depicted via the numbers of activate facebook participates and daily tweets. Where do you think all this data goes from what music, tv, movies you favor to all the random one-liner comments?
Whatever happened to the mentality of not letting the salesman into the house because the adults of the household desired to keep their little ones innocent of deceit's voice?
I suppose that was ruled out by my parents' generation when television advertisements first began sinking into the homes throughout cities, suburbias, and rural lands--and to think how we have progressed since then...
-j.a. knolls
