Now there are many sites offering various types of fortune telling online.
For any question, a site visitor can get both a detailed description and a short answer of yes or no. What do such “fortune-telling” give a person?
Modern sites offering fortune-telling services are mostly fully computerized. That is, you ask a question and get an answer according to a given algorithm that uses ready-made templates and texts.
Many apply for such services as entertainment, someone half-jokingly, half-seriously. There are people who are really starting to ascribe to these actions some otherworldly meaning and in some decisions they really focus on the answers received in this way.
Here are a few psychological features that explain the desire to spend time in this way.
1. Tightening.
One of the main phenomena that arise when interacting with similar sites is the delay in receiving answers. I would like to ask more and more. Already involuntarily a desire arises when an everyday question arises to postpone its solution and go to the fortune-telling site, with playing cards, tarot cards, dice, dice, coins, etc. There is a kind of dependence.
2. The ability to relieve oneself of responsibility.
Although each of us intelligently understands that it is unreasonable to make decisions based on the answer in fortune-telling, but still often I want to do it. Why? The answer is very simple. Sometimes we don’t want to be responsible for some of our decisions. Following the prompts of others allows you to remove this responsibility. In most cases, of course, this leads to negative consequences, but gives time to rest in terms of decision-making. There are a certain type of people who just feel the need for it.
3. A sense of psychological protection.
In fortune telling, there is always an appeal to some otherworldly mysterious power. Definitely, if you are guessing, you are turning to this mysterious force that exists in reality or only in your imagination. This is valuable to many due to the fact that it is important for each person to be involved in something more that is able to support or protect him. Interaction with such a real or invented force gives a feeling of this protection at a psychological level. But is this sensation a real defense?
4. Imaginary or real opportunity to possess hidden information.
If we try to find out in such a way how a girl or boy relates to us, which team will win the football match, what the dollar exchange rate will be tomorrow, then, of course, we want to have some information that is not accessible to ordinary people. Again, it’s not even so important whether we actually possess some hidden information or just imagine this, but in any case, there is a feeling of greater control over fate. Unfortunately, in most cases this is just a sensation, moreover, an illusory one.
So, accessing fortune-telling via the Internet provides some psychological benefits. As we just saw, many of them are quite illusory and can hardly help in real life.
If you see a craving for such activities in yourself, think about what they give you and how it is possible to get the same in other ways.