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But eventually they start talking. The problem, they say, is this: we spend too much time on social media. We do it because, essentially, we have no choice. People working at tech companies have invested an unimaginable amount of money, time, and engineering effort into developing systems that keep us hooked and predict our every move. That’s how they make money: we’re not the users, we’re the product (the cliché is often repeated). Mark Zuckerberg and Susan Wojcicki are billionaires, and everyone else has given up happiness, knowledge, intimacy, immediacy, family time, free will. We’re pawns in a terrible scheme. We live in 2.7 billion individual “Truman Shows.” We live in the Matrix!

Of course, all this is a bit beyond the realm of reason, but “The Social Dilemma” is as straightforward as possible. Orlovsky emphasizes this criticism with a bizarre dramatic narrative that permeates the entire film: the sweden number data actors portray stereotypical conflicts of a family with technology. At the dinner table there is no eye contact, the teenage daughter’s self-esteem has plummeted due to social media, and the teenage son begins to watch increasingly radical videos. At one point, when the boy can’t tear himself away from his phone, the film switches to a metaphorical “control center” where people manipulate his tape while “I Put a Spell on You” plays in the background.

Many things in “The Social Dilemma,” especially this family story, seem dated in 2020. Yes, phones have changed the way we communicate with family and friends. And yes, children are very vulnerable. But none of this seems new or even interesting. After all, Harris has been talking about this for years. And he’s not alone. Even social media creators like need more oversight from both parents and lawmakers.