Social Media Threatens Our Reality
The Social Dilemma highlights the unintended consequences
There are only two industries that call their customers users: Illegal drugs and software.
— The Social Dilemma, Netflix 2020
When we think about robots taking our jobs and rising up against us we think of some futuristic dystopian machine like this:
But the reality is that the robots already run the world and it looks like this:
It’s difficult to spot the impending doom in the second photo, but it’s not far away.
Familiar scenes like this at restaurants, pubs and at home scared me enough to delete my Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat accounts a few years ago. Since then I’ve had a barrage of questions from my peers about why I decided to go off the grid.
My answer is not a soundbite, my answer is not a clickbait title and my answer is ugly. My answer has three components:
- Mental Wellbeing
- Democracy
