Arthur wrote:
AC> <http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/personaltech/index.html>
AC>
AC> Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business
AC>
AC> [snip]
Bizarre! But no more bizarre than "gold farming". I was just reading
Charles Stross' _Rule 34_ in which terms such as "choice
architectures" and "automated social engineering" come up.
One element in the story is the de novo creation of a chat room or
other "social" on-line site peopled variously by real persons and
chat-bots (but chiefly the latter) engineered to create a warm and
trusting environment for visitors who will immediately encounter
conviviality and a welcome. The purpose, of course, is to manipulate
the visitors' "choice architectures" toward revealing private
information.
I suppose having lots of entrained twits can tilt people's estimation
of trustworthiness or credibility.
Mike G wrote:
MG> I have about 550 "followers" on twitter
Yow! I'd have to think about it but, just of the top of my head, I
don't *want* 550 people to know what I'm thinking today, the moreso
anything I'm thinking that I can cram into a few dozen characters in
haste.
Jeez, I'm such a ol' fuddy-duddy. (I even use email.) There's just
*all kinds* of weird fuvg out there on the net that I miss because I
don't do farcebook or twitter or the like. I read about the bizarre
developments in the fiction of Stross or Gibson a few years after it
was hip to know about them.
- Mike
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