The Social Dilemma

This is almost a must-watch. It's a documentary about how Social Media is programmed to program it's users.

I'm having my kids watch it, and I highly recommend it for anyone who uses Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc...

 

Let me check with Zuckerberg to see if I can.

 

i guess i thought people understood that about these things -- nothing's free. the closest thing to social media i'm on is this board and linkedin and frankly linkedin has gotten way too social media oriented. when i joined it was more about making industry connections and not about people posting articles and shit.

 

https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads

 

any solutions come to mind?