The Social Dilemma focuses
on how big social media companies manipulate users by using algorithms that encourage addiction to their platforms
. It also shows, fairly accurately, how platforms harvest personal data to target users with ads – and have so far gone largely unregulated.
Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations
. Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
“The Social Dilemma” points
out that many social networks exploit human weakness by designing with something called positive intermittent reinforcement in mind
. Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and one of the experts interviewed in the film, compares it to a Vegas slot machine.
“The Social Dilemma” argues
that as long as corporations have no limit on how much profit they can make from mining your attention, social media will benefit companies rather than people
. Born in 1996, I straddle the border between millennials and Generation Z.
The film discusses
the many negative effects of social media, including mental health issues, addiction, and the spread of illogical conspiracy theories through the younger generation
. In the film, a mother asks her son to give up his phone for only 24 hours, as I’m sure many parents have asked their children to do.
To illustrate how social media companies function, Orlowski made the bold choice to include a
fictionalized storyline
within his documentary.
Advertiser boycotts sparked by dissatisfaction with the company’s hate speech policies had little serious impact, as Mark Zuckerberg successfully predicted. “The Social Dilemma” ends
with interviewees exhorting viewers to “change the conversation” around technology
.
You can now watch the cautionary tale about social media… on social media.
Nevertheless, The
Social Dilemma is definitely worth watching
and will inevitably prompt you to question your own online habits.
The Social Dilemma premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2020, and was released on
Netflix
on September 9, 2020. The documentary went on to be viewed in 38,000,000 homes within the first 28 days of release.
Structural Strategy. To change the actual social structure generating the social dilemma through strategies such as
imposing legal regulations
to prohibit a defective behavior, decreasing the individual benefit of the defective behavior, or increasing the individual benefit of a cooperative behavior.
“We’ve created an entire global generation of people who were raised within a context where the very meaning of communication, the very meaning of culture is manipulation,” writer Jaron Lanier says in the film. “We’ve
put deceit and sneakiness at the absolute center of everything we
do.”
How do you solve dilemma?
- Remove Emotion. Emotions are an essential part of all decisions but do not let them get the upper hand. …
- Take Time Out To Think. …
- Flexibility Is Key. …
- You Will Be Wrong. …
- Stop Being Cruel. …
- Commit and Follow Through. …
- Build Your Muscle. …
- Help Yourself.
a situation that creates a conflict between the individual’s interests and the collective’s interests
, such that the individual obtains better outcomes following strategies that over time will lead to suboptimal outcomes for the collective.
The Social Dilemma focuses on
how big social media companies manipulate users by using algorithms that encourage addiction to their platforms
. … While the Netflix feature educates viewers about the problems social networks present to both our privacy and agency, it falls short of providing a tangible solution.
