Social Media and Social Control

"Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"
--Dr Yen Lo (The Manchurian Candidate)

After the recent months' events, there can be little doubt about the reinforcing effect that social networking has on social control initiatives. If you reprint a behavior that you want people to follow on Facebook, Twitter, et al and others do the same, then that behavior quickly becomes the norm.

Who needs sophisticated methods of mind control when you have the echo chambers of social media?