Taking Full Control Of How You're Influenced Daily

If you have ever heard the sentence "You need this, go get you one right now!" and you instantly felt like you did need it and ran to buy it, it may be time to break up with your favorite influencer...or at least take advantage of your parasocial interactions and/or relationships and how you are influenced by others online. Please use your discretion when taking advice from content creators who you admire or respect. You have full control over how you are influenced, you choose what you engage with, and how much of what you consume you allow affecting your decision-making and your pockets, so here are tips on how to master controlling how you're influenced daily.

Parasocial interaction refers to a kind of psychological relationship experienced by the audience in their mediated encounters with people, real or fiction, on mass media platforms. Viewers and listeners come to consider media personalities as friends despite having limited interactions with them. These relationships tend to be very one-sided as one person extends emotional energy, interest, and time and the other party, the persona, is completely unaware of the other person's existence.