20 Best Quotes from The Social Dilemma

You’re probably having issues utilizing social media right now if you’ve viewed The Social Dilemma on Netflix. Maybe you should watch it if you haven’t already because it makes you feel unfriendly to social media. In this article, we will be discussing some of the best quotes from The Social Dilemma.

You’ve probably heard of fake news and social media wreaking on human relationships,  and sparking civil wars, among other things. And, despite what we hear and read, we don’t seem to care about or discuss all of the negative repercussions of social media in our lives. 

The documentary illustrates how artificial intelligence (AI) that controls social media manipulates your emotions to make you happier or sadder and more miserable. It is a mind-blowing documentary by Netflix. It had some great quotes from the era. We have put together a list of the 20 best quotes from The Social Dilemma below.

Take a look at our list of 20 best quotes from The Social Dilemma:

1. “There are only two industries that call their customers “users”: illegal drugs and software.” 
2. “If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product”
3. “I’ve uninstalled a ton of apps from my phone that I felt were wasting my time. All the social media apps, all the news apps and I’ve turned off notifications on anything that was vibrating my leg with information that wasn’t timely and important to me right now. It’s for the same reason that I don’t keep cookies in my pocket.”
4. “Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse.”
5. “We’re training and conditioning a whole new generation of people that when we are uncomfortable or lonely or uncertain or afraid we have a digital pacifier for ourselves that is kind of atrophying our own ability to deal with that.” 
6. How much of your life can we get you to give us?

   

7. “It’s the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own behavior and perception that is the product.”
8. The very meaning of culture is manipulation.
9. “We’re the product. Our attention is the product being sold to advertisers.”
10. “I like to say that algorithms are opinions embedded in code. And that algorithms are not objective.    Algorithms are optimized to some definition of success. So if you can imagine, if a commercial enterprise builds an algorithm, to their definition of success, it’s a commercial interest. It’s usually profit.”
11. “Leaders will be pulled away from what is important. Guard the important things in your life.”
12. “The platforms make it possible to spread manipulative narratives with phenomenal ease, and without very much money.”

    

13. “Never accept a video recommended to you on YouTube. Always choose. That’s another way to fight.”
14. “Before you share, fact-check. Consider the source. Do that extra Google. If it seems like it’s designed to push your emotional buttons, it probably is.”
15. “We’ve created a world in which online connection has become primary.”
16. “It’s a marketplace that trades exclusively in human futures.” 
17. “I’ve uninstalled a ton of apps from my phone that I felt were wasting my time. All the social media apps, all the news apps and I’ve turned off notifications on anything that was vibrating my leg with information that wasn’t timely and important to me right now. It’s for the same reason that I don’t keep cookies in my pocket.” 
18. “You have a moral responsibility to solve the problems you create.”

    

19. “What you create can be used for different things. You may be surprised what happens with what you create.”
20. “Learn to be bored. You will learn and grow from your boredom.”

Some of the best quotes from The Social Dilemma are mentioned above. With some very eye-opening observations and figures, The Social Dilemma serves as a reminder of the power these platforms wield over our lives.

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