Social Engineering: Does it really involve math?

                Today in Human Geography we continued our PowerPoint. We didn’t really get through any slides since last time, because we were discussing social engineering in sort of an open debate format. Originally we started with what social engineering was, and how it is used in school. Social Engineering is a way that people influence the way you think. The tendency of news networks is that they have twenty-four hour news service. This means that they occasionally talk about the same subject for long periods of time until a new one comes along, or revisit a past subject. By using this type of news system, it makes us hyperaware of everything going on. However, when it comes to the presidential election, each news station seems to have on candidate that they bash on the head for hours. This makes news stations more and more like propaganda machines. One thing that I will say is that I think Fox News is more balanced than CNN when it comes to politics, even if they are right leaning. We then moved on towards how children’s networks tend to target children with lots of social engineering. And the fact of the matter is, young children don’t really have barriers against this, and the social engineering children’s TV stations employ is so the parents spend some money that goes to them. This, combined with actors on television that are of the child’s age, can cause serious behavioral issues. Child actors on TV (as well as adults) portray people that don’t act like real people. Children then copy this behavior and are worse off for it.