User:Jcklimper/Surveillance capitalism

The role of social influence on human development has shown to affect all humans, at any age or from any background. The stages of cognitive development as put forth by Piaget include a preoperational stage in which the primary sources of social influence are parents, teachers, and siblings. In the subsequent stages, other sources become increasingly important. These can include constructed knowledge gatekeepers like schools, newspapers, or the internet. During this stage of development many children assign living attributes to nonliving things, This is called animism. This causes the child to attribute "The Internet" to being a real entity and they have an inability to distinguish between the content leading them to believe what "it" is telling them.