Social Dilemma is a Netflix documentary that goes in depth about what is actually going on between the people and the social media industry. The documentary really opened my eyes to the fact that us as consumers are the product that is being sold. There is always that question of “how do companies make money if the app the produce is ‘free’?” By selling your data to companies that are making ads that keep you on the specific app for any given amount of time. The more we are on the app, then the more the app creators are profiting.
The wildest part to me is how there is no age limit of who sees these ads or who the companies are trying to get on their app. In Social Dilemma there was is a daughter named Isla is at a very young age and shows how addicted she is to her phone once she broke her mom’s case at dinner just to get her phone back. Having a child so addicted to a phone at such a young age is not the best thing for the family because there are people who go on the internet just to be mean and spread hate because they area behind a screen. Personally, I feel like if you give your kid a phone they should know that people use it in a hurtful way.
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