Who did watched the social dilemma ?

[Lvvvvvv]

I am a UX designer and “the tricks we use to trick users” are obscene. It really works like a drug addiction.

I use instagram for my brand and am totally hooked to reddit. I recommend you read a book called Hooked. It teaches you how to design in a way that users are literally hooked to your app’s updates.

[Fireball_H]

I started it but couldn’t watch more than 15 minutes or so. Just found it way too boring.

[ViragoWarrior]

I started watching the documentary, and it sadly wasn’t anything shocking. ? It’s a dilemma I’ve wrestled with for years as a SM manager. If you’re not in it to make profit, then you really don’t need to be there.

[SAT0725]

I just watched the trailer, but from that it looks like it doesn’t cover anything that will be new to those of us who’ve been working in the field for any amount of time. And honestly, it’s not just social media; this is the new normal for any activity online. Deleting Facebook, Instagram and Twitter won’t help you. If you use the Internet or a smartphone in any way at all, you’re in the system, irrevocably.

[rusicmarketinglab]

Who cares, you can swap out social media for anything harmful that is allowed to be consumed by society; Fast food, Cigs, Soda, Ect.

To say social media is a drug like they did is to call our entire society a drug,

Which it is.

[Meatface_Malone]

I haven’t seen it yet. I feel like I already know what it will say about it.

[Vanesa1vanesa]

I just watch it! It was terrible ?

[kentuckyfriedbuddha]

it’s super campy. i wish they had done vox style info graphics or anything else that wasn’t so embarrassingly over the top. the info between the soap opera skits are interesting, but it’s hard to deal with it.

[2cool4spoons]

Really good! If you work within the industry, you probably won’t be fazed by it. But I think from the point of view of a general audience, it’s engaging enough to spark a conversation. I recommend following it up by watching The Great Hack. ?

[Not_a_minion]

Actually yet they just explained 50% and other half it still covered

[GuruAbhinai]

I logged out my Instagram personal profile in mobile , still using it on PC as Edge PWA version.

The PC version makes it less engaging and I wouldn’t navigate myself to explore page, it’s a big mess and driven by propaganda.

Twitter and Reddit are way different by design, you would explore on a given topic unlike insta shoving cluster of topics at your face.

Follow up read : Mindfuck by Christopher Wylie.

[Anthony-409]

I watched it a couple of weeks ago and it didn’t tell me anything I already know. As far as I’m concerned, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram serve absolutely no purpose to me. If I want to talk to my friends, I’ll message them on WhatsApp, phone them or I’ll meet up with them. Reddit, WhatsApp and YouTube are all fine, for me. I actually enjoy using them. I hated using Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. That’s the reason I deleted them.

[EvrAImKona7]

I deleted Instagram, Facebook and Twitter from my phone a while ago so it was quite reassuring.
As a side note watching Vincent Kartheiser (as the AI), who also plays Pete Campbell from Mad Men, was perfect casting. Somehow his personality as a 60s account executive really pulled through in terms of how persistant modern day AI bots are lol

[CCAUN]

You deleted social media because of that documentary? My God, that is pretty lame.