The Social Dilemma exposes the actual control of communication sites over human minds and the formation of civilization
Addiction, the spread of hatred, changing collective and cultural behavior, increasing adolescents and children depression, the pursuit of perfection and others, are the most prominent faces of the dark side of social media, according to the movie The Social Dilemma, since the spread of Facebook at the beginning of the third millennium and the warnings of psychology experts about the danger of these sites have not stopped, but they are always In an increasing spread.
But this time, revealing the dark side of social media was made by a group of workers and specialists in Silicon Valley, who are among the people responsible for analyzing every click you make on your different devices, entering your brain, creating desires that you do not actually want and instilling values completely different from you.
Your impression will be the first when you watch the movie The Social Dilemma or social dilemma is to shed completely your phone from the window or erase all the applications on it, it comes statements shocking from people who worked in important centers for the development of sites The Facebook and Pentrist and Twitter , and Anstagram Instagram and snapchat Snapchat and others.
But to be frank, it may take you hours and maybe a day or two to come back again while you are eager to follow the communication sites again and share your various stories, and this is precisely what the promoters rely on for the importance of social networking sites and it is considered one of the most important positives of the third millennium.
With the spread of Covid-19 and the distance of actual social distancing, the means of communication were a real rescue cordon for millions to interact with their loved ones and know their news, which made the haters of social media retreat slightly from their hostile position, but with the disclosure that these sites can actually control your mind and the future of your children and the way Their outlook on life and their values are shaped not according to their interest but for the benefit of a very small percentage of businessmen around the world, you will definitely reconsider the importance of these methods.
Together, we will try to monitor the deadliest risks that these sites pose, and this time not according to the opinion of psychology and sociology experts, but from the point of view of the designers of tracking technologies, monitoring and analyzing clicks.
1. The high prevalence of fake news and hate crimes:
One of the first and most important phenomena that specialists in Silicon Valley focused on is the large spread of false and fake news. The pages of social media are rarely subject to any censorship and have not been regulated by any law, such as what is found in other visual, audio, and read communications.
This in itself sparked terror and panic around the world over news that was, in the end, just a small bubble and was promoted as a catastrophe that increased the fortunes of certain people, bankrupted millions, and even spread terrorism.
This fake news has led to a lot of hate crimes, punishment without trial, the spread of ISIS ideas and the extremism of white fanatics against those with Middle Eastern features and other tragedies that have spread over the past years and were the origin of communication sites.
2. Adolescent depression and the Snapchat anomaly :
The increase in depression has been observed in general among the human race and among adolescents in particular because of others' perception of them and their search for permanent perfection. The child or adolescent no longer depends on his image and the acceptance of his personality according to the opinions of his family, close friends or even his colleagues and neighbors, and these all cannot reach Dozens.
But with the spread of dazzling and beautiful images on communication sites, the teenager wants to get hundreds and thousands of likes, and this is what he cannot get at all, which leads to depression, although he may be very loved in the middle of his small community.
Experts have called this case “Snapchat anomaly” and it is the defects that appear only in Snabchat pictures , some of which are very dazzling, others are normal, and a few are somehow ugly, which drives young people to increase the craze for plastic surgery although in reality they are much more beautiful than those Who enjoys impressive pictures on Snapchat.
3. Development of persuasive technology to change behavior through technology:
And it is one of the most daring statements in this film, The Social Dilemma, as it confirms that workers in the field of communication sites are studying persuasive technology, and how to employ everything they know about humans to transform it into a technology that can persuade people with ideas, goods and news that serve a very small group.
Millions have already noticed that they are being watched in some way and that their random conversations with their friends turn into highly demanding ads on every Internet page they visit, and many have thought that this was a result of their actual interest in these products.
But on the contrary, it is through the information collected through tracking technologies that the administrators of the media are actually able to create interests and desires that you never had before, and then convince you that you want them badly, so you start searching for them.
The matter was developed recently by announcing a slide that is implanted to read your thoughts, know your health status and contribute to disease resistance, but with many doubts about the effectiveness of this slide, the developers of communication sites do not really need it to know how to control you if you continue to enter heavily on these pages.
4. Addiction:
This is very clearly indicated by former Pinterest development chief Edward Tufte, who pointed out that there are only two types of industries that call their clients "users" and they are the drug industry and digital technology, and words like "clients" or even are not used. Consumers, like other industries, confirms with heartbreak how he used to spend all day working to develop technology that would attract people, then he would go home and could not take his eyes off the phone despite two children who needed his care and attention.
Addiction is no longer only in narcotic substances, but many actual experiences before studies have shown that staying in front of screens and communication sites causes an actual addiction and the associated rejection of reality and a desire to escape from it.
A happy wife with her husband rejects her reality when she compares her with a picture on Facebook, and a loving mother refuses to call her children and visit them just because they do not refer to her in pictures on "Instagram", because people become only seeing communication through these sites, and they consider that not expressing Positive emotion in public is a "lack of interest" despite having realistic human contact.
It is highly ironic in this film is that it comes across platform Netflix , which Ttoulha a lot of accusations of violence and the deployment of abnormal values in the minds of generations.
Despite the power of The Social Dilemma or the social dilemma and its shocking message that director Jeff Orlowski tried to express, it is not expected that people will suddenly stop using social networking sites, as they have become like fast food, chips and soft drinks that everyone knows are causing spoilage. Biological tissues, cancer and weak immunity, and yet it continues to reap its profits, because those in charge of it continue to deceive things such as that it is free of preservatives or changing the shape and ingredients every time.
Social media certainly has its positive aspects, but the dark side of it should never be overlooked, because it will not only affect the health of the body and self-satisfaction, but it will shape the whole global community awareness, and you must also bear in mind that the age of these means does not exceed 15 years, Despite that it had this frightening effect, so how after 50 or 100 years?
Every minute you sit in front of social media takes the time when you can develop yourself and develop your true relationships with your children and family, and this gradually will make you not only in your place, but you will step back, and with this we realize that stopping it is difficult for some and impossible for the majority.
So we will not ask you suddenly to delete these applications because some tried and unfortunately returned again despite being very aware of the negativity of its effect on their lives, but following some important steps to legalize the situation and trying to reduce the negatives will be useful, such as setting a specific time to enter them and setting an alarm to stop them, and preventing children very decisively. From sitting in front of screens for a long time and abstaining from them before bed and other methods can form some kind of resistance to this increasingly negative influence.
