The Social Media
'Social media is any digital tool that allows users to quickly create and share content with the public. Social media encompasses a wide range of websites and apps. Some, like Twitter, specialize in sharing links and short written messages '
Is it really like that or something else?
OK . Social media sites built on the idea that it helps people communicate and exchange ideas, and it is part of a new development system. good
This is impossible. Do you think that they want us to communicate and develop? The answer is no The thing is, they've been put in a ridiculous prison. A virtual prison that makes them spy on us and control us in anything .
How are we being deceived :
In 2007 the Canadian rock group Arcade Fire released an album entitled Neon bible that deals with the nature of contemporary life, technology, politics and religion in an atmosphere of existential anxiety and opens with a song called Black Mirror, a term describing the screens of devices in which we see our faces and face ourselves after their light disappears and our reflection remains . In 2011, Charlie Brooker used the name of the song to name his famous series Black Mirror, which consists of separate episodes set in an alternate reality or a near future. The work reflects on the devastating impact of modern technology on life and the human psyche.
Dystopian literature, cinema, and science fiction have always dealt with the dangers of technology and its control over humans, the amplification of the machine and its rebellion against the human will and the creation of a full life for itself and how the creation of mankind turns against it in the end, since Mary Shelley Frankenstein wrote in 1818 and the idea of a human being with his knowledge creating a monster that controls literature and cinema, I dealt with Cinema is the wildness of robots and computers dozens of times, but the world has now reached a contemporary dystopia where we do not have to look at an imaginary future in order to find that technological existential horror, but we can only look between our hands. This contemporary dystopia is the subject of the documentary The Social Dilemma, produced by Netflix this year and directed by Jeff Orlovsky.
The social dilemma :
The film tells its main story in The Balkans, a traditional documentary and fictional dramatization, based on the style of documentary based on talking heads, and the narrative and warning of a group of former officials in large companies such as Facebook, Instagram and Google, which adds credibility to the proposition because those who advise and warn were part of the system.
On the representative side, it depicts a family of five, the children representing adolescents of different ages, the group that falls prey most to those sites. The film follows the family as life unfolds through those sites, the issue discussed in the film is divided into two main themes: the advertising capitalism of those sites, and how do you make a person himself a commodity that companies compete to gain his attention and get him to addict their sites? The narrative escalates to political and social issues caused by these sites, including the ease of spreading false news and the aggregation of right-wing and left-wing blocs that make the division of societies easier than ever before, and threaten the functioning of the democratic process.
The social dilemma borrows the aesthetics of future distopia from cinema and television and applies it to reality in its acting scenes uses a fictional world that represents a sinister and naïve cartoonist who is divided into a threesome consciousness that conspires every part of it and controls part of the adolescent mind of the hero of the imagined story through his smartphone, suggests to him what he watches until he engages in potential violence, poses to him pictures of girls who will be informed about them with anxiety and loss of confidence, suggesting that he fit the ads of his continuous activity on those sites in order to achieve financial profit that pursued by those companies.
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| An imaginary scene from the social dilemma |
Charlie Brooker, the maker of black mirror, describes his series as telling the reality we live in or the near future if we deal with reality foolishly, which is already addressed by the social dilemma, our access to the reality that we have caused or been deceived to fall into.
The film's vision of the impact of technology is similar to some of the earlier works that predicted its complete control over human reality, in one of the episodes of the black mirror, individuals live in an alternate reality in closed rooms completely wrapped in screens displayed by sexual advertisements to be seen by force to ensure the user points to use later, ideas such as those were hypotheses for imaginary dramas but became an integrated reality and the idea of full control of the screen, especially the nature of advertising and directed content is the essence of the film social dilemma.
While works such as The Black Mirror and other works addressed the existential panic of technology imaginatively by making a dystopia exaggerate and amplify reality, the social dilemma uses those elements in part, but mainly uses documentary content to clearly warn of a grim reality and a bleak future. In that trap is mental health, lifestyles, education and self-image.
The film could have become more powerful and influential if he believed that the facts he had were enough, but Jeff Orlovsky felt it necessary to draw illustrations through the imagined story in order for the film to attract more viewers and become less boring than educational documentaries, so that the end result became confusing and unembellished at the artistic level, especially since the conclusion of the characters is not entirely convincing, contrary to what can be called experts in their field.
Given the public reaction and the paradox on social media, what has spread from the film are clear documentary quotes directed at the camera stemming from the experiences of those who have worked within large companies and participated in the giant manipulation network that they are now warning us of.
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| A scene from The Black Mirror. |
From Bike to TV :
"We're not going to tell you any truth, we're going to tell you everything you want to hear, we're lying as we breathe, we're trading in illusions, but you're sitting there day after day, night after night of all ages, all colors and races, we're all you know, you're starting to believe the illusions that we're invading. Here, you're starting to believe that that screen is the truth, that your lives themselves are not real, you do whatever the screen tells you, you wear your clothes like a screen, you eat like her, you raise your children like her, and you even think about it, this is mass madness, I swear to you that you are the real thing, we are illusions, turn off the TVs now, turn them off and leave them off, turn it off in the middle of the sentence I'm saying now! "
When you read that passage, it's hard to imagine that it's about television, but it sounds like another repeated critique of Instagram and Facebook, how the image and illusions affect us, how a group of people force us to taste and think, and how we replace our reality communication sites, but it's a quote from a character written by Paddy Schaevski in a 1976 film directed by Sidney Lumet, described by Aaron Sorkin, author of the famous film touching the same themes, the social network as the most predictable of the future.
The film tells the story of one of the satellite news stations and the whisper of one of its officials by making profits and raising the views until it reaches to kill directly on the screen, comes quote by Howard Bell a successful former news anchor who was dismissed from the channel but he gets episodes of what we can call hallucinations and during which the channel rebroadcasts its program because the truth it speaks attracts viewers because of its extreme strangeness, it sells that fact as a producer.
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| Some speakers in the social dilemma |
In one of the clips of The Social Dilemma, a former Google official compares the obsession and existential anxiety associated with the Internet, but the real difference is that panic is justified, and that the pace of the development of the Internet according to the documentary is going faster than anything ever invented in history. Unlike the bike, social media is not a tool waiting to be used, it is a being that manipulates us, wants certain things, uses ourselves against us, but the concern about television's control over minds and the power of its influence in the years of its control over visual culture matches that anxiety of social communication, the difference is that television is one-way and its presence is combined with sitting in a specific place and watching it, and smartphones are an extension of our arms that do not leave our blood awake inside or outside.
Over time, the fear of television has subsided because it has lost that influence and the ability to deceive everyone with the illusion of presenting the truth, will social media sites lose the same ability over time or will expert warnings of their seriousness succeed in affecting their users?
The cause of all the problems:
The social dilemma causes a very immediate anxiety, you find yourself analyzing the nature of your use of your phone and the number of hours you spend passing your finger on its screen tirelessly, and ironically, while you watch it you are most likely holding your smartphone in search of new news or funny snaps, but the nature of the platform on which the film is displayed depends on algorithms similar to those used by social networking sites it directs you to what you like your taste in one direction and swallow your time in one direction and swallow your time hours and hours.
But what the film failed to do was the unbridled demonization of the role of these institutions without giving any human capacity, so, in the words of one speaker, it became the commodity, even if that is partly true, the peak sequence used by Orlovsky to frame the extent of the harm that young people suffer as a result of drifting in those locations ignores their freedom and ignores the police violence they are subjected to, and that violence becomes another consequence of the smartphone and not a matter of study and calculation.
In the last sequence, every political problem related to democracy, tribalism and social division is blamed on social media without regard to any policy details in each country or the nature and multiple sufferings of different peoples, social networking sites have facilitated angry gatherings, divisions and manipulation of election results but did not create them, found the same problems before the existence of that technology and will continue to exist after its demise because human corruption and intolerance have deeper roots than just an angry group proposed by Facebook.
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