The Social Dilemma

"The Social Dilemma" points out that many social networks exploit human weakness by designing with something called positive intermittent reinforcement in mind.

In the modern world 21st century we humans are living in a both physically and virtually growing world, where data is the most value asset to mankind, those who have control over the data and stats can arguably manipulate the mankind.

Social media which is both a boon as well as curse, palys a critical role in this new world of data and information. In a nutshell we can say that we are being mentally hacked by the stakeholders of this social media world, that is artificial intelligence which is not even a living being. We arguably say that we are being controlled by the machines and they are manipulating our mindset.

For example, you login to a particular social platform and search any required content, then the algorithm of the AI is designed in such a way that it will mould your search bar in such a way that it will recommend you or suggest you more stuff related to the content you searched at first, so that slowly and gradually you get trapped with that loop and your data can be successfully extract and stored, that is nothing but tha manipulation of our brains and we are not even aware of it, our psychology is being hacked somehow, they emotionally target us and manipulate us strategically and this is so complex that even the ones who works on and for this technology, even they can't decode the whole thing how it works, so apparently we all are being controlled by this huge super computers.

For example, we are emotionally hurt by means and go online to relax ourselves and look for stuffs online which could help us get over our trauma. The Al then and their detects that we are emotionally triggered and starts manipulating us bia it is designed algorithm. Somehow, that is the reason behind the growing rates of depressed people and mostly teenagers. As per as study, the rate of suicides has doubled since 2009, it was the year of the rise of social media. 

Teenagers are mostly engrossed with the social media and they are busy socializing with the peoples they meet online rather than socializing with their own family and practically interacting with peoples. Basically, social media has encaged our teens, we are gradually turning into technical zombies. It is like a virtual simulator, once we are trapped, we loss all our connections with the physical world, which ultimately leads to depression and mental illness. For us, this virtual world of artificial intelligence has turned into reality, that is the influence of social media at individual level.

Now, from a broader perspective, it even effects the society and our social life. 

The very first point under this matter is fake news, yet another toxic fruit of social media, which manipulates the society as a whole. As per as report, a fake news spreads 6x faster than a real news, that is the influence of this virtual world. 

Nobody has the time to go through the real news and aquire the genuine informations, everyone is dependent upon social media which mostly spreads fake news and creates chaos among peoples. These fake news are so smartly designed that we can't even distinguish them and the real ones. Which ultimately leads to social problems mismatch of opinions and breaks the social peace and harmony.

Fake news creates anger and impatience in a human being which is somehow a threat for the democracy as well leads to violence. While the stakeholders of the social biggies were asked about the future and mankind, they replied, that if we tend to get manipulate by the social media much like what we are doing now, then it will lead to civil wars or genocide at larger scales in our near future. So if we continue to use this social media in a uncontrolled way and tend to get manipulated by tha virtual simulator created around us, then in near future it will evolve itself as an existential threat for human beings, so we have to regulate and make a controlled use of social media in order to take some benefits out of it or else it will lead to a big threat in the future, all we have to do is thing smartly, use our conscience, protect ourselves from fake news, they calm and work on our patience in order to avoid this threat.