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By Marivel Guzman

Use your “quarantine time,” and watch this powerful docu-drama, Social Dilemma will make you to reevaluate your life. If you are not paying for a product, then you are the product being sold.

The dangerous persuasive technology used by Facebook, Google, Twitter, Snapshot, and YouTube to manipulate your habits, behavior, beliefs and choices:
From presidential elections ads, COVID-19 information, social isolation, online shopping, weight losts programs, travel destinations, everything is covered, everything is targeted, the goal; to change your choices to their “product, ” the product sold by advertisers.

Psychologic and technology was merged to manipulate your brain into changing your habits and beliefs.

Engineers from leading online platforms speak to congress about their fears. They believe, the present unrest in US is due to social media persuasive technology, and can only end in civil war.

“Social Dilemma” features former senior executives from major tech companies like Google, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest, as well as scholars who have studied the negative impacts of social media addiction, especially on impressionable minds.” The Telegraph.

“There are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software, ” people is addicted to technology, be social media Apps, email, online news, the same way they are addicted to drugs.

Please, don’t take my word for it, try to put your phone away for a day. I said try, because, you can’t, your life revolves and depends on your phone and countless Apps.

You can’t even enjoy a meal without first sharing a shot of your plate on social media.
Try to wish happy birthday to your grandma in Mexico without first creating a post in Facebook, knowing that your grandma doesn’t have a Facebook profile. You can’t escape those attractive avatars and quizzes. Nothing is for free, everything has a price.

Social media has changed the fabric of society, and is shaping “democracy,” at least in US, social media platforms regulated and manipulated the past 2020 presidential elections’s infomation allowed to be read by users, the same goes for COVID-19 information, and COVID-19 vaccines, via their sponsors.

Social Dilemma docu-drama, first aired in Netflix on September 20, 2020.

Watch Trailer

https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224?s=a&trkid=13747225&t=cp