Please watch this doc if you have kids using social media.
Wife and I just watched a doc on netflix - The Social Dilemma. It is about social media and its influences, and pulls back the curtain and reveals all the workings that go on behind your screen.
The doc is created by and stars former tech employees, engineers, coders etc who were employed by google, facebook, youtube etc around 2008 - 2010 when all these things were really being developed. Things started off innocent, like a way to say hi to grandma or put up a video of animals at the zoo, but morphed into a business model of making people addicted to their phone for profit.
It is well known that these companies make crazy amounts of money off selling your data for advertising, but what is disturbing is what length they go to get your attention and get you to keep your face staring at the screen. The more time you stare at the screen, the more money they get. Teams of engineers with college degrees in psychology developed algorithms and use supercomputers running AI to get you to stare at your screen. Basically the smartest people with the smartest computers with an endless amount of cash at their disposal are doing everything they possibly can to get you addicted to your phone. They can calculate your mood, your feelings and your thoughts with shocking precision and focus the next thing on your screen to feed into your emotions. Just to get you to stare at the screen longer.
A lot of people already kinda knew that, but when you pull back the curtain it reveals some disturbing statistics about childhood depression rate increasing, and increased rate of teen suicide/self harm and children now value the life of their online digital clone more than their actual self. The developing mind of a teenager is no match for these teams of psychologists and supercomputers, they are straight hooked by design.
But it goes further than that and goes into how it creates division in society and creates radical groups and gets people going down rabbit holes on conspiracy theories and vaccinations and forces people into these echo chambers of thought and the end result is a human who is incapable of understanding how someone can have a different opinion than their own.
Very disturbing. Must watch
also the director/engineer Tristan Harris did an interview on joe rogan podcast
Wife and I just watched a doc on netflix - The Social Dilemma. It is about social media and its influences, and pulls back the curtain and reveals all the workings that go on behind your screen.
The doc is created by and stars former tech employees, engineers, coders etc who were employed by google, facebook, youtube etc around 2008 - 2010 when all these things were really being developed. Things started off innocent, like a way to say hi to grandma or put up a video of animals at the zoo, but morphed into a business model of making people addicted to their phone for profit.
It is well known that these companies make crazy amounts of money off selling your data for advertising, but what is disturbing is what length they go to get your attention and get you to keep your face staring at the screen. The more time you stare at the screen, the more money they get. Teams of engineers with college degrees in psychology developed algorithms and use supercomputers running AI to get you to stare at your screen. Basically the smartest people with the smartest computers with an endless amount of cash at their disposal are doing everything they possibly can to get you addicted to your phone. They can calculate your mood, your feelings and your thoughts with shocking precision and focus the next thing on your screen to feed into your emotions. Just to get you to stare at the screen longer.
A lot of people already kinda knew that, but when you pull back the curtain it reveals some disturbing statistics about childhood depression rate increasing, and increased rate of teen suicide/self harm and children now value the life of their online digital clone more than their actual self. The developing mind of a teenager is no match for these teams of psychologists and supercomputers, they are straight hooked by design.
But it goes further than that and goes into how it creates division in society and creates radical groups and gets people going down rabbit holes on conspiracy theories and vaccinations and forces people into these echo chambers of thought and the end result is a human who is incapable of understanding how someone can have a different opinion than their own.
Very disturbing. Must watch
also the director/engineer Tristan Harris did an interview on joe rogan podcast
