Lately on Facebook pages are depopulating some quite controversial, as no tattoos, no to marijuana and Better Gypsy, that Italian, who pretend to oppose radically to a certain lifestyle or a certain set of beliefs to unleash people's reactions.
Talking with the managers of these pages came out that they have some traits in common: they only serve to cause, for a search of fun or attention, but almost always evolve in bizarre social experiments whose purpose is to see how far they can go.
Now, anyone with a decent knowledge of the dynamics of the Internet knows that it is simple troll more or less well-built, but the "success" that are having (in the time of writing no to marijuana has more than 60,000 like, No to tattoos more than 16,000, Better gypsy, that Italian 11,000) does also reflect on the strange relationship that the majority of Italians have with the Internet and social networks.
In 1961, while in Jerusalem held the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Stanley Milgram conceived an experiment in social psychology in an attempt to answer the same question to which he has attempted to answer: "it is possible that the Nazis were just following orders?"
In practice, Italians who today believe in Lercio.it when he writes that the Kyenge want to give their dogs and cats for food to the immigrants we believe for the same reasons that Americans believed in the 1938 Orson Welles radio announcing the 'invading Martians.
There are real intentions satirical or exist only for the enjoyment of their managers, these pages can be used to observe one thing: probably stupid people there are many there were before, but since they all have access to the Internet and a Facebook account there is much easier to recognize them.
The study, which analyzes the interaction of more than 2 million users with true and false information from various sources, says that people who do not trust the mainstream media tend to believe more easily in false information, in practice, people who are turning to alternative sources of information in the fear of a general and unspecified "media manipulation", they are those who tend to believe everything they are told.
In summary:
Any nonsense you write, you can always find someone who really believes, or thinks that behind the events there are some kind of powerful interests.
The network is no longer a means elite reserved for those who have the cultural tools to filter what he reads, but conversely appears to have become the alternative to all forms of culture.