The longer this pandemic stretches, the more isolated most of us feel.
It also doesn’t help when social media platforms censor sources of news which doesn’t fit its own narrative for example conservative views. Twitter doesn’t enforce their ‘rules’ consistently.
Platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Google are notorious for this and have been in the news of late.
Even Apple and Google have been implicated when they banned Parler from their App Stores.
So are we consumers being blindly exploited? Absolutely, but we do have the option of just closing our accounts and stepping away, right? Will we? Now that so many of us are addicted to the platforms?
I have began the process of downloading my content from Facebook. I have closed my Twitter account. Should you do that as well?
This divisiveness is fueled most likely by AI’s or artificial intelligence because no one in the right mind has the kind of time to sit and argue with strangers.
It probably never occurs to most folks that this is the case. This all important documentary “The Social Dilemma on Netflix” should be required screening for everyone in the world.
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