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Originally Posted by Chitown
I just watched the documentary on Netflix. It certainly makes you want to throw your cell phone and your computer in the garbage. Person to person communication and interaction has greatly changed since we grew up in the 50s, 60’s and 70’s. Prior to computers and cell phones people were forced to communicate with each other in person. This made longer lasting friendships and you were forced to learn conflict resolution. That’s what’s wrong with our country today millennials and people in their teens and 20s are learning things through social media such as Instagram TickTock and Facebook. Some will say that today’s young people and people in the future will be of great benefit to all this high-tech technology. While that statement is true you also completely lose touch with person-to-person interaction and the quietness of just sitting down and reading a good book.
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It is very chilling, and note in the documentary how unaware people are that they are being used.
Folks think that it is clear cut when you are being steered and/or controlled but it never is. Every keystroke means something in the algorythm and whether you admit it or not, you get locked in and will see only what "they" want you to see (and again, "they" refers to anyone with the knowledge or desire).
I was struck by professionals who wrote the programs, who administer the programs, who know of what they speak explains as best can be done in English, how it works. Seamless and unidentifiable.
Those who condemn the mainstream media, yet post YouTube videos or that kind of stuff simply astound me with naivety. I am able, albeit not as easily as I could, to find accurate news with facts that are simple to validate.