Psychological Implications of the Internet

It has never been more easier to control individuals on the conscious level by stuffing their brain with mere information. The adaptation of the internet in society has made it very possible to perform large scale operations of direct attack on infrastructure and internal structure. Ever since the conception of the internet, it has been sought after to control the flow of information, the type of information, whether it be true or not, and the collection of information. As a whole, the physiological implications that the internet has on us is still in it's infancy, however, as time progress we should witness the major impacts on future generations. 

Society is constantly been pushed to adapt use of this technology. Sure it offers many benefits to mankind, but mankind has never been more vulnerable to psychological warfare. With disinformation campaigns, internet groups with specific agendas, and falsified images, the internet is one of the greatest tools ever invented to subvert the minds of people. 

We see disinformation happening all around internet chat rooms, social media, and the deep-web. Disinformation draws the attention of the reader, and leads them to them to believe something that is untrue. Disinformation is deliberately spread across the internet for certain psychological operations. For example, if I wanted to make a disinformation campaign about taking away gun rights, I would lead people to believe that staged shootings was real, while having artificial intelligence post on forums, social media, and irc, all about it, from the victim, to the shooter, everything intentionally made up for a purpose. The effective disinformation campaign will have everyone talking about it with regarding it as faithfully true.

Internet groups are recruited by various people to damage in a number of terrible ways. From releasing classified information to hurt certain entities or people, to creating certain scenarios that people get trapped in, internet groups work for other powerful entities controlling the hive network. The internet groups may have their own agenda, but as time progresses, it is highly crucial to control the internet groups, for they are the social engineers that can either produce a positive effect on the populus, or a very negative one. 

It should be apparent the damage falsified images have had on society. It is nothing new, however it just became easily accessible to many eyes. The impact this has on the individual is startling, for the fact that one's own image is not sufficient enough, therefore one must "photoshop" their image. This living a false reality. Filters are nothing more than just a distortion of the real world, but for other's viewing the image one cannot easily distinguish, unless one is trained to spot those sort of things. Falsified images also portray an individual a certain type of way. 

Sure, the internet is practical for many cases, however we are blind to the psychological impacts it has on us humans as whole. Just take notice on how much of your generation uses the cellphone, which in most cases is connected to the internet. As they are bombarded with information, false images, and being targeted by individuals, they lose touch with reality, beyond the technology. It just gets easier to control the internet and the information as time moves forward. Consequently, the damage will further deteriorate the natural human way of life along with the physiological makeup of the human being.