Infomining

The process through which a Sociopath (person suffering Anti-social Personality Disorder ) or a malignant Narcissist (Narcissistic Personality Disorder ) gets to know your weaknesses and insecurities in order to fill their database and construct a mental image of who you "truly" are.
This information will be used at a later time, generally to subtly abuse you and drive you insane , but also to obtain as much as possible from you (financially or otherwise ).
This process can be described as "dropping hints" to make you speak about yourself , pretending to reveal a secret to make you reveal yours, invent a hard childhood to see what traumas you have , etc.

Sociopath :"It's hard for me to talk about it, but my mother used to hit me"
Other person -"really ? I shouldn't be surprised , though , childhood is no bed of roses, my uncle used to do things to me...."
Sociopath : "score!! I had great success infomining this idiot!! "

by wonderknowledge October 23, 2012

infotaining

Entertaining someone for the ulterior motive of gaining information of some sort from them.

Mary is suspicious that her best friends husband is cheating so she invites him over alone with the hope of 'infotaining'.
Mary: Fancy some wine?
George: Yes please!
Mary: Here you go. I'll just go - are you having an affair?
George: What?
Mary: What?

by Jake White January 14, 2009

infomaiming

The Precision, partial alteration of facts to achieve a desired euphemistic or dysphemistic perspective on a subject.

That news station only offers one-sided opinions, they are masters of infomaiming all their stories.

by kalzabar July 23, 2010

infomaxing

The art of maximizing your information flow by letting your curiosity lead the way. It is a method that combines different elements from "Just-In-Time (JIT) Learning", "Mind Mapping", "Self-Directed Learning (SDL)", and "The Feynman Technique". This technique is a self-directed learning strategy driven by intrinsic motivation and associative reasoning. The learner follows their curiosity through a nonlinear path of inquiry, investigating related topics and foundational concepts in the moment they are encountered. Not to confuse with "infomax" a concept in machine learning.

I used infomaxing to become a subject matter expert in computer science
I infomaxed last night
I am an infomaxer

by egirlhunt October 15, 2025