So i was talking with my ex wife today, who by the way is still my best friend. She was watching a documentary on Netflix called “The Social Dilemma”, she thought it was so good, that her goal is to stay off Facebook, for the rest of November. So of course, I had to watch it and it was a very good and insightful documentary.
The Social Dilemma is about real issues with platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and many more. How these big companies, with their rooms upon rooms of computers, algorithms and artificial intelligence, can influence and even manipulate the human minds of anyone and possible everyone. As we have all seen over the last 10 years or more, social media has had a huge impact on our country and the world, a very sad and scary impact. It was originally designed to keep friends and family in contact with each other and it still does, which is great. Although the downside has so much negativity and division! Through their sites, there have been actual wars in other counties and from the looks of it here in U.S. we are not far behind
I’m sure I’m not the first to write about this social media addiction and hopefully not the last. there are many great and useful applications of the internet, but that dark side has always been there, from day one, just waiting in the background, looking and reaching out to catch that fish. Don’t get caught on it’s line, stay away from it, or at the very least, don’t get sucked into it’s BS. Also do yourself, your family and friends a favor, watch this documentary, definitely worth your time because this social media thing, really is an addiction!
I hope you at least get a little positive info from this post, maybe it will help someone out there. In the mean time I’m off for the night. Catch you on the flip side!
