Amazing. This should be shown in schools, airports, etc everywhere.

An interesting and very disturbing documentary on how we are all being manipulated.

There was nothing enlightening here. I felt that the engineering from social, psychological, computational, and mathematical aspects were interesting and should have been explored more, since they essentially glossed over the misinformation campaigns running rampant on every social media platform the world over. Even if this doc would've focused on regulation, or the lack thereof, that would've been something, but they chose to not call any entities out, remain middle-of-the-road, and out of the fray. I think that this topic would've been much better served as a multi-part series that explored the various ramifications of social media, rather than 90 minutes of glossed over, big-picture fluff that didn't hit at the heart of any of the numerous implications caused by the inherent designs of social media platforms.

I will say, however, there were far better recommendations for how to combat this ever-present problem in the last few moments of the film, while the credits rolled. The director had the interviewees each list methods they utilize to prevent overexposure to the ills of social media to them and their families.

i was a little skeptical at the start, cuz they were just saying things we already know, but later the extent of it, GOD! blew my fucking mind

While I do think that it is an amazing film that everyone should watch, unfortunately, I think that creators spend too much time focusing on shock value to truly get the right messages across. I have personally been "social media aware" for about 9 months now and have read multiple books on this issue, and they don't portray the dystopian society that this film does. By focusing more on how people can change their habits and by showing that it is **possible to live with social media**, this film would have much more of an impact.

Absolutely nothing new here. Actually a lot missing. Maybe it's focused to the US audience idk.

“Our attention can be mined. We are more profitable to a corporation if we’re spending time staring at a screen, staring at an ad, than if we’re spending that time living our life in a rich way.

And so, we’re seeing the results of that. We’re seeing corporations using powerful artificial intelligence to outsmart us and figure out how to pull our attention toward the things they want us to look at, rather than the things that are most consistent with our goals and our values and our lives.” - Justin Rosenstein, Facebook Former Engineer, Google Former Engineer, Asana Co-Founder.

Very interesting documentary about how tech companies capitalize on human psychology and precisely on our weaknesses. A great point mentioned is how the fact that feeds are "personalized" for each user gives us that false sense that everyone agrees with us simply because everyone in our news feed sounds just like us. Getting exposed to opposing opinions, fact checking news, and choosing what to see rather than just going with what is recommended are just a few of the ideas to have somewhat of a control over what we consume.

Like some have said, there was nothing new here. And I think they missed big part of the solution. We need to help humans improve with better education and better mental health care. If people can take care of their vices by getting help and having a support system this stops being a problem.

There is a big part of the population that doesn't know that news feeds are custom tailored to them but the problem is that they don't seem being capable of making their own mind about topics they need a better education and support system.

And they throw a lot of blame to the big companies but the regulation should come from the government. For me is like blaming the alcohol manufactures for people having DUIs, doesn't make much sense.

Regulate the drug YES...

...BUT ALSO help people not take it in the first place.

Indeed, it describes a real-world problem, however, from the wrong perspective IMHO.

These companies do not keep data collection and analysis as a secret - it's mentioned every in registration criteria. And I believe it's beneficial for users if used wisely. If you provide only selective data to the network you can actually train the algorithms to give you only content you actually want.

The real problems that the movie mentions are disinformation and addiction. However, those are consequences of bad education - kids/people, in general, are not taught how to verify the information they find on the internet. They have zero knowledge about some basic security and most importantly, they are not taught any online ethics.

I would like to also pinpoint the fact that it's not just social media. Fake information are also in paper-news, manipulation is done via television, billboards, songs, etc...

I believe all this tech can be very useful if we'll start to educate ourselves on how to process information, how to behave, and how to manage our time. We can't blame companies for our stupidity.

Left me frustated..Even though we know some things this documentary makes you scary... 7.5/10

The scripted story with the actors was so lame. I know they wanted something more complex not just a documentary with interviews but :man_shrugging_tone1::person_facepalming_tone1:

Basically a 90 minutes long documentary that softly tries to expose the evilness and flaws of big tech platforms capitalism without ever properly naming big tech platforms capitalism.

It is good to point the issues, it'd have been much more interesting to hear about proposed solutions besides "regulations".