Dark Side of Social Media

Some Quotes From Netflix's 'The Social Dilemma'
That Will Have You Questioning Social Media

If you've seen The Social Dilemma on Netflix, you're probably having trouble using social media right now. If you haven't watched it yet, well, maybe you should. Because it leaves you feeling not-so-social-media friendly.

These quotes literally say it all, and leave us with more questions than answers.

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This is a trailer of the movie entitled "The Social Dilemma" directed by Jeff Orlowski and written by Orlowski, Davis
Coombe, and Vickie Curtis. The Social Dilemma argues that real-world contemplation, activities, and relationships have lost their ability to calm and soothe youths and adults. Instead, people use social media as a form of distraction and entertainment to cope with difficult feelings.

The Social Dilemma, a new Netflix documentary, is a frightening look at how social media is impacting us as individuals and as a society. According to some of the visionaries behind the creation of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and other popular social media platforms, social media can do good—but it also has the potential to wreak havoc on our lives and our planet.

Moreover, social media for teens is actually changing their brains, say the technology and psychology experts interviewed for the documentary. Addiction to social media is one of the biggest topics addressed by The Social Dilemma, and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the dopamine high produced by constant scrolling and notifications.

Here are four concepts described in The Social Dilemma that highlight the negative effects of social media on teenagers.

1. Persuasive Technology
This phrase refers to the ultimate goal of the artificial intelligence (AI) that powers social media. By tracking users’ every click, social media AI (which is embodied in the documentary by actor Vincent Kartheiser) “learns” what posts, articles, and videos they’re most likely to respond to. Hence, their feeds are customized to persuade them to keep scrolling longer, so they will view more ads, invite more friends, and generate more money for the platforms and their advertisers. Furthermore, notifications—for example, the alert that’s generated when a user is tagged in a photo—keep teens glued to their phones, without realizing that their behavior is being manipulated.

2. Fake Popularity
“Fake, brittle popularity,” in the words of Chamath Palihapitiya, Facebook’s former VP of growth, is one of the biggest negative effects of social media on teenagers. Teens place great value on the short-term rewards (hearts, likes, thumbs up), but receiving these superficial recognitions leave them feeling “even more vacant and empty” than before, he says. The never-ending search for online approval has become a pervasive form of social media pressure that “starts to dig deeper and deeper down into the brain stem and take over kids’ sense of self-worth and identity,” states Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and cofounder of the Center for Humane Technology.

3. Snapshot Dysmorphia
This new mental health issue is an outgrowth of the insidious link between social media and body image. Because social media is so focused around appearance, it triggers body dysmorphia in teens, especially girls. In response to the unrealistic standards of beauty perpetuated by social media, adolescents become hyper-conscious and hyper-critical of one or more of their physical features. In the documentary, a dramatization shows a young adolescent becoming fixated on her perceived defects after she posts a selfie and one of her friends makes a comment about her ears.

4. Digital Pacifier
The Social Dilemma points to growing evidence that teens, as well as adults, have lost the ability to calm and soothe themselves with real-world reflection, activities, and relationships. Instead, they deal with challenging emotions by turning to social media for distraction and entertainment. This is another way in which addiction to social media takes hold and draws teens away from more enriching experiences. “A whole generation is more anxious, more fragile, and more depressed,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, PhD, says in the documentary, commenting on the exponential rise in teen mental health conditions and su***de since 2010, when social media and smartphones become prevalent.

What We Can Learn from The Social Dilemma

When it comes to social media for teens, the experts in The Social Dilemma recommend some practical ways to discourage addiction to social media.

✓Create an agreement with your teen about how much time they will spend online.

✓Establish a house rule that everyone turns off devices at a designated time before bed.

✓Turn off all social media notifications.

✓Make sure teens understand the ways in which they are being manipulated by social media.

✓Encourage teens to do research before sharing posts or videos to make sure they’re not spreading fake news.

✓Keep children off social media as long as possible, ideally until high school.

Source: https://www.newportacademy.com/resources/empowering-teens/social-dilemma/

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