The Social Dilemma

This show provides perspective anyone with a smartphone or social media account should watch. If you think you really know what's going on behind the scenes on our devices and social media apps you probably don't.

Netfix's The Social Dilemma is a documentary of interviews with leaders from Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, and many other well known technology and social media companies. These former employees and leaders of key departments enlighten the audience to the specific and targeted approach to how we are all being drawn back into using our devices and going to apps.

Notfications, emails, texts, alerts and more and some of the many purposeful approaches the algorithms will use to engage us with enticing notes or news that will draw us back in for hours and hours. This show does a really great job of simplifying and explaining the depth the companies and their code can go to get what they want.

It was also extremely interesting to see how many well known viral political and other information is passed around completely unverified but yet pushed to people as if it's true. There were so many areas of information in this show it's a must watch.

Watching this show will help families understand how we need to look out for ourselves and how much we use and share on our devices. We are all being targeted in order to come back for more, we need to always remember that.

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