Are you interested in information flow?

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What I mean is, I'm always curious about how people know the things they do, how information passes between individuals. Although my social circle is rather limited (mostly my parents, their friends, and some relatives), I sometimes start rumors just to track their progress.

Same here on the meta of information flow.

I plan to make my job on that .

Interesting concept I do like information flow its always tracked by me so I know what is going on and if necessary but in and change it in some regard. I usually only do this if I see it as essential I keep few circles some professional and majority are local social circles but these circles are always professional the way I treat them. I use the circles to learn for example I am learning about micro expressions through the interaction I can now beat people at guessing games due to learning the person. When I learn them I can play guess who and win with in under 3 guesses. The circles are also good for getting random information stored into my brain some very good such as a person's current behaviour from discussions I hear about them. I may edit certain areas as mentioned in beginning usually to do with a person's attitude.

I do find it absolutely fascinating. There's a good book out on it now called (of course) The Information

review: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/books ... leick.html



When I was a kid, we used to play a game called Telephone. In this game, you whisper a statement into somebody's ear. They then whisper that statement into somebody else's ear. And so on and so on until it has passed from person to person (without anybody hearing it exactly clearly). The person who made the original statement then says it out loud and this is compared with what the last person heard. The game is to see how corrupted the statement became as it was transmitted in a whisper from one person to the next. Playing this game as a child is how I learned the concept of corruption of information as it is copied and copied and copied. Having this concept in my head helped me understand transcription errors in genes when I studied biology as an adult.

A friend showed me a fun way to track the information of how marketers sell your name and mailing address. She would fill out surveys and questionnaires with a deliberate spelling error in her name. Then she would wait a couple months to see what junk mail she got with that particular spelling error. I tried this and got interesting results. Filling out a marketing survey in a grocery store with a specific spelling error eventually got me on a mailing list for real estate. It's easy to track if you keep a list of what spelling errors you put on which surveys.

I can't really think of anything interesting to say on the subject. But yes.

Great topic.
I have several email addresses in different names, initially started because years ago had home phone in fake name (unlisted numbers cost money).
Great to see what shows up in those mail boxes.
As far as personal gossip, when I discovered a few years back just how bad the gossip was in the small town I had moved into (to the point of people befriending me, and while I was with them, they sneaked off to call someone to tell them what they learned, then that person later gossiped to me about the first group etc), so I started telling certain people certain things just to keep the information spinning in different directions. I even would have a conversation with one (I was hanging out in a local club initially trying to be social) all the while aware there were two other people trying to hear what was going on, so I sparked it up a bit.

It was mostly a "go to hell" attitude to these small minded types. It was fun, but at the same time I somehow felt evil and manipulative, even though they all deserved it. Even a couple of years after I quit spending any time with that bunch, one man still tried to pump me for information in his supposedly slick way, and I was always aware when speaking to him that it was some sort of recon mission. It was so obvious he was asking specific things, using phrases I had used, I even purposely got someone's name wrong and it came back to me that I had said "yadda yadda about blah blah"

I do feel sorry for people whose main interest is what other people might be doing or saying, or what they are about, in that nosy way.