Knowledge is king

AUTHOR:
MAE

There is an old saying:
If you don't want it read, don't write it down. 

If it is written it will be read!

I have lived by this saying my whole life. 

Basically anything we do or say will be associated with our life, our parents lives, our children's lives, our grandchildren's lives forever and then some. 

I think if we hold that in our minds and then do what we do, we will hopefully not be caught off guard.


This two pence comes in light of the big panic that has come to being, due to the new T&C's of WhatsApp. 

I am not "anti" or "pro". I am just looking to raise awareness.

Knowledge is king!

If you know that all apps (especially "free" apps) are designed to collect and sell on data, tailor ads, program your mind and habits, be addictive, then that is half the battle.

It is much easier to avoid falling into a pit if you can see it. 

I am not here to say stay away from social media or this app or that, I am simply saying this does happen ALL the time, with EVERY app, just be aware of it. I'm just here to shine the light on the existence of the pit(s). 


I'm sure almost all of us have experienced the "oh my god is my phone listening to my conversations?? I just said about going to a holiday in Hawaii and now I am getting ads for it!!" moment, ("tailored ads"); but let me tell you I have had moments where I have THOUGHT of something, not said it out loud not wrote it to someone, not heard it and then thought it. No. Just a pure simple "innocent" "random" thought and it comes up in ads!?! ( I'll tell you why these two words are in quotation marks below) 

Well the conversation followed by an ad is quite easy to understand, they ARE listening to us. (Watch "The social dilemma" movie if you have any doubts!)

But the whole thought being "read" thing?? 😱
Well, unless I have a microchip inserted in me, that really ain't possible.
So far to MY knowledge, that is not the case. (I could be proven wrong though, I do understand that is a very likely possibility too!) 

However for this moment in time we will assume, said is not the case. So how can they "mind-read".

Well, it's not really "mind reading", but rather mind programming. YES! They programme your mind to have the thought.
"How?? For the love of God how??" I hear you ask.

Well, to be honest it's a lot simpler that you think; well, simpler than the lengths that DiCaprio had to go through in Inception. ( Again a brilliant movie if you have not seen it, go and watch this! ) But, basically the principal is the same.

The idea is planted inside your brain, but in a way where you believe for it to be your own. In other words your subconscious has been primed to have said "thought" - through ads. In fact, you may have already subconsciously seen the ad first, but as it did not "register" in your consciousness, you don't recall it. Then you had the "thought", most likely triggered by another not directly, but semi- related ad; and then finally, you see the ad again, but this time you actually see and register it. 

So in actual fact you did not have an "innocent" "random" thought, but in fact, you had a thought that your brain had been primed to give. 





I'm just gonna let you soak that one up.
Mic drop.

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