CHS300 Discussion The Social Dilemma

I chose the first video Titled the Social Dilemma. My overall reaction was wow! I knew the internet was pretty much tracking our research but to hear it from the people who actually worked with these companies made it more eye-opening to hear them say how they are tracking us and getting our data from what we look up and watch is scary. They are using surveillance capitalism to collect all the data they need from us to make sure they are getting the correct advertisements out to the right people. I get it, it’s very smart on the marketing end but it also seems a bit underhanded and sneaky. These social media sites are exploiting our weaknesses by designs called positive intermittent reinforcement. While they are doing their jobs, they are also breaking families apart. More and more families are spending less time with one another because they are glues into their phones. I can admit I am one of the guilty ones. I wake up and the first thing I do is check my social media, at the dinner table when I’m supposed to be spending time with my cellphone on social media. When I am emotionally unaware of myself I tend to have certain things impact me differently from I am emotionally stable. “Emotional self-awareness is the ability to recognize and understand your emotions and how they impact your behavior. You know how you feel and why you feel that way. And, you can see how your feelings help or hurt what you do. You also have an accurate sense of how other people see you.” (Goleman et al., 2018) We try so hard to be just like the people we see on our social media. Social media sites are killing us. Not physically killing us, however, it is definitely killing our brains and our way of thinking. Now we are not only thinking using our brains now we are thinking with social media influence brain. How has vulnerability and social media manipulated your brain?

Gisondo, S., Hayard, K., & Kartheiser, V. (2020, September 9). The social dilemma. Netflix Official Site. Retrieved September 22, 2021, from https://www.netflix.com/watch/81254224?trackId=14277281&tctx=-97%2C-97%2C%2C%2C%2C

Goleman, D., Staff, M., Whitney-Coulter, A., Naidoo, U., Smookler, E., Kira M. Newman and Janet Ho, Fisher, J., Angangco, T., & Wolkin, J. (2018, August 15). How emotionally self-aware are you? Mindful. Retrieved September 22, 2021, from https://www.mindful.org/emotionally-self-aware/