Description
After watching the documentary, The Social Dilemma, write a 500-700 word reflective essay that addresses at least two of the following prompts:
- Do you think you could stay off your phone for 24 hours? What notification would compel you to get back on your phone?
- What can you do to help prevent an addiction to social media?
- Why do you use social media? Is that the only way for you to achieve those things?
- If you could only keep one social media app, which app would it be and why?
- After watching the film, do you plan to change any of your privacy settings on social media? Which ones, and why or why not?
- What is one part of the film that really resonates with you? Connect it to a personal experience.
- Do you fact check everything you see online? What is one time you have read only the title or beginning of an article, but shared it anyway?
- What sources do you trust for news? Why do you trust these sources and do you ever get information from elsewhere?
- Can you think of a time where you said or did something online that you probably wouldn’t do in person?
- Think of a time where you have seen hate comments on a celebrity’s social media post. How does being behind a screen change how a person sees people on the other side?
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Running Head: THE SOCIAL DILEMMA
The Social Dilemma
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Q1. What can you do to help prevent addiction to social media?
Social media and other applications execute gamification techniques to instigate
reward centered in my brain. The designs for this are outlined at length in the film –
application developers compete to capture and hold my attention. According to Hou (2019),
everything from swiping to pressing and "like button” is optimized to keep me scrolling
within the applications. In the firm, they note that the only industries that call their consumers
"user" are social media and drugs. To me, this feels very telling. I believe the ideal
psychological outcome to prevent myself from being addicted to social media would be
controlled use of the internet. T...
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