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?

infotaining 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.

infomaiming by kalzabar July 23, 2010

infobaiting 

To lure people into becoming obsessed over something pointless by dangling information about it in front of them, appealing to their need to find out more (see infobating).

People would never have even heard of the Kardashians if the tabloids didn't keep infobaiting them.

I can't stop reading TVTropes, every article keeps infobaiting me into the next one!

infobaiting by nowvoodoo January 2, 2012

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!! "

Infomining by wonderknowledge October 23, 2012