5 Ways to Avoid Social Media Swindlers
Save Your Money and Your Sanity
The snake-oil pushers of today are putting their namesakes to shame. Masters of brain manipulation they play to our human insecurities and hook us with their emotional stories. The swindlers of yesteryear would roll up in their wagons full of miracle cures, twisting their moustaches with a beguiling grin. They would tell tall tales of travelling the country, curing more and more people along the way. They grabbed money in exchange for bottled promises and disappeared long before the realization, shame, and anger set in.
Today they show up in our social media feeds. Dressed to impress with effortless lifestyles, loving relationships, and 6-figure incomes. Armed with toxic positivity, they hook us in with their stories of struggle. Our brains are captivated and quickly attempt to reconcile the perfect image that we see and the story of hardship we hear. How can we relate so deeply to the struggle and yet not to the rainbow-filled lifestyle that is being portrayed? What are we missing out on that they have? What do they know that we don’t? Then they give us the peace we are looking for — THE answer. They tell us that we too can go from our struggle-filled grey life to their rainbow lollipop paradise, and they will let us in on the secret.
