The Social Dilemma Reviews

Since I kept hearing some pretty good things about this flick and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even if I probably didn’t learn anything really new, it was still an intriguing documentary with a whole bunch of people much smarter than me. I have to admit that, at first, the content was fairly depressing and it slowly became even darker and, towards the end, it was pretty much the most nightmarish doomsday scenario that you could imagine. At least, I’m glad I’m part of the last generation which was born before the internet and the smartphones and, as a result, I don’t actually use any social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram so I didn’t really have to feel guilty while watching the damned thing. Still, as a parent, I became slightly worried for my youngest daughter though. Indeed, she is now 14 years old and pretty much spends all her free time on her smartphone so, to hear how hurtful it could be for her on so many levels was slightly distressing. It was fairly amusing to hear other parents telling that they got it under ‘control’ though. Indeed, either, they actually don’t and they are lying to themselves or they actually do and, as a result, they pretty much cut off their kids from what is actually going in their social group. Anyway, is the situation so bad after all? I mean, when I was growing up in the 80’s and the 90’s, people were complaining that we were watching too much television, then they were complaining that our video-games were just too violent,... On the other hand, in this case, the scale is actually here much bigger and the usage is also so much intense, it just never stops. Furthermore, there is also an actual conscious choice to actually manipulate the users which was never really the case with TV and video-games. Eventually, how will it all end? Difficult to say and, if you would believe some people, nobody even knows what is really actually going on anymore. Anyway, to conclude, the damned thing was quite fascinating to behold, maybe slightly hypocritical from Netflix who is quite notorious in the way they try to influence its users but, at least, this movie is one more reason to stay away from all this social media nonsense and I think it is definitely worth a look.