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Documentary - The Social Dilemma
Documentary - The Social Dilemma
Documentary - The Social Dilemma
The main concern of the speakers is the great addiction and dependence that we
have created with social networks, since this is doing us a lot of damage and we
are not using it in the best way
In addition, you mention the problems that fake news is presenting us, the
polarization that occurs in our opinions and the suspicion that we are the object of
experiments by technological corporations whose intentions we still do not
understand.2. Is there a problem? What is the problem?
2. Is there a problem? What is the problem?
It can be said that the use of social networks affects mental health since this
causes in people a feeling of anxiety, the image that is sometimes unrealistic
produces in people, especially in young people, a feeling of frustration, which
produces a drop in self-esteem leading to anxiety disorders.
3. What’s the link between Mental Health and Social Media usage?
The link between mental health and social networks is the great dependency that
has been created towards them, causing many people and younger people to
present a lot of mental damage due to social networks, many times even major
mental disorders have been diagnosed. since people are very consumed by social
networks and this means that everything they see there affects them in a very
great way, for good or for bad. and when it is for the worse, it often causes great
damage in people's lives.
4. What’s your opinion on allowing young kids to have smartphones?
I do not agree that children use smartphones as they become prone to addiction
from a very early age to social networks, online games among other things
5. What’s ‘Ethical Design’ by Tristan Harris?
It is the ethical design of technology. What you are looking for is that technology
does not hijack our minds and our attention. In other words, the aim is to establish
design bases that can be easily applied to any platform or service, and that serves
to amplify human capacities in the place of taking advantage of our vulnerabilities.
6. What are they being paid for?
So that the ads of those who pay have much greater visibility on digital platforms.
7. “If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” - Make comments on
this quote and give your opinions.
If we do not pay for the service that these platforms "offer", we are the ones who
become the product, since they manipulate us with the information that they want
us to see and with the ads of those who do generate an economic benefit for them
and a dependencies to social networks to us.