"The Social Dilemma" explores how the Internet's most popular products work on a basic business model of tracking users' behavior in order to sell targeted ads and induce addiction in a vicious cycle. The film blends interviews with tech experts, including many former employees of Silicon Valley giants, and PSA-style dramatic scenarios illustrating the negative effects of social media on average Americans.
The employee interviews are the most interesting part, as they explain how their companies developed technology that so effectively manipulates the human psyche, and express their regrets over what they unleashed. Their warnings are dire.
Despite the confessionals and doomsaying, however, the final recommendations to the average consumer of these tech products are disappointingly unoriginal. These self-help suggestions include: turn off notifications; uninstall time-wasting apps; fact-check before you share sources; and follow people with different views than you.
Perhaps the most ironic one is not to watch what the recommendation algorithms suggest — although presumably the exception is when the Netflix algorithm loads up "The Social Dilemma." Big tech companies are not likely to take films like "The Social Dilemma" as an existential threat. Facebook, a frequent target of social media criticism, still posted
deletefacebook these social media are the grave danger to the livelihood. They steal your information, sell it to 3rd party. Congress must dismantle these tech firms. Facebook has become far right site.
Turn off notifications and limit screen time. Boom. Problem solved.
Everything in moderation? 😂
Identifying the problem is the first step in solving it. At this time, most people don't see the spike in fanaticism or disinformation. I hope those watching this film can start to see the problem and why it has increased recently.
to stop, must delete social median tell your friends on Twitter, facebook, and others to stop using them. have them forward your message to others. keep informing people until everybody deletes social media.
Um, just DeleteFacebook. It's easy. I did.
People are flocking to social media to share their thoughts on The Social Dilemma which said...frankly...stop using social media. So we are combatting it by posting and saying not to use it...but we are using it...but need to stop Head—spinning.
Your parent company is part of the problem. You feed the media BS that feeds social networking....it's like a partisan crap food chain....and MS and NBC are at the very top trickling the poop down.
It doesnt need to explain their opinions on fixing it. They are just stating the he facts of a broken monopolized system.
I agree. The documentary was a scaremongering. It also didn't focus on WhatsApp and how it is being used to manipulate masses.
Solution is they need to be regulated
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