How Social Media Tries to Influence You

Originally published on May 10, 2019.
Last Updated on March 2, 2024.

Being on Twitter or Facebook, or using Google search for anything is dangerous.  

You need to understand that they are not there to serve you.  They are serving their own people and their own ideology.  You must be constantly on alert if you are hoping to avoid the subtle way they try to influence you.  

Here are is Rule #1 for social media giants:  If it is good, or beautiful, traditional or contains Godly morality – they will try to undermine it.  Look for those things and you’ll find social media presenting the ‘alternative’ point of view as if it were normal and mainstream.

For instance.

This is the day after the #marchforlife which is a celebration of life and demonstration of solidarity with those who oppose the killing of children. 

Yet my ‘For You’ Twitter feed was 95% full of ‘pro-choice’ posts this morning.  Totally manipulated.  I don’t follow many ‘pro-killers’ in my Twitter feed … in fact, about 90% of the people I follow are pro-life people.  So why is Twitter feeding me ‘pro-choice’ tweets?  

It’s manipulated.  They are doing this to try to move the conversation away from the #marchforlife and toward the evil of child murder.  Remember, if it is good, or moral … it must be attacked.  

How to deal with this?

The best option is probably to leave Twitter and Facebook … Google, etc.  However, in doing so, you lose your voice.  Even if it just a single voice ‘crying in the wilderness’, it has value.  We must oppose evil where we find it.  Running from it does not oppose it.

So we stay.  

I find that if I keep in mind the above Rule in mind (they will attack all things good,) that it becomes easier to see the manipulation and understand it for what it is.  Use that feeling in the back of your mind that you get when you see something not quite right … tune into it because it is usually correct.  Your mind is trying to tell you that something is just not right.  Don’t be mindless on these sites.  They are trying to influence you.

And speak up.  Oppose the evil where it is.