Do you think social media has amplified manipulative behaviors? 📲#RobertGreene #HumanNature

Do you think that social media has compounded that problem, that we're hiding behind manipulation more than we ever have? Or do you think that it's sort of opening that up and we're being more vulnerable and transparent about it?

Social media, it doesn't necessarily make us more manipulative than we already are. It just makes it easier to disguise. So for instance, I find, you know, I talk a lot in my last book about the dark side of human nature, what I call the shadow. And so you get a lot of people who have kind of trollish behavior on the internet. We've all dealt with them and they kind of come in with these sort of nasty comments designed to get under your skin, but because they're not there, because they're not in front of your face, they can kind of get away with it. They can pretend that there's something— that they're a tough guy or a tough woman, and they don't have to take any consequences for it. So you're able to kind of discuss behind the screen, behind the anonymity of the internet, you're able to get away with more of the kind of nasty behavior that a lot of humans are prone to. So in that case, what it does really make worse though are things like our propensity for feeling envy,