The Movie “The Social Dilemma” Is a Complete Overreaction
The answer is discipline, not the extinction of social media.
Blaming social media for our problems seems childish.
It’s easy to place blame. It’s harder to be responsible and work on your own version of discipline.
As someone who has spent the last six years writing on social media and working with tech companies, the documentary, The Social Dilemma, solved nothing. It highlighted obvious challenges and pinned the blame on social media tech giants.
Social media is nothing new
The generations before you were told newspapers would harm society. They were told that society would spend far too much time looking down at a newspaper rather than talking to each other. The newspaper didn’t end up killing social interaction.
Books were also supposed to steal our attention away. We were supposed to become zombies that hid away in bedrooms, isolated from the world, and did nothing other than read books.
Books didn’t create an attention apocalypse either.
Your grandparents were warned of the dangers of television. They were told people would lock themselves up in their homes and shackle themselves to the television. TV…
