RE: Dissecting The Social Dilemma

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I haven't seen this, and I'm not sure I shall. I do think though, and from other comments, not dissimilar from yours, that the issue remains how people make use of the social media. A healthy skepticism is really important and an awareness of what an online presence means - in every sense of the word. I do also know that if a services is "free", it isn't really. Like a "free lunch" there will always be some sort of quid pro quo and one needs to be alert to what that might be.

I am not in favour of charging for news shared on the social media - as is being proposed in Australia. I am only too aware of the need for free speech and a free media and in countries like yours and mine, we need both. Social media are vital to the dissemination of information for a slew of reasons. The challenge is stopping the spread of fake news which, of course, is much bolstered by a particular US presidential hopeful.

The challenge, when it comes to children is not the children but the parents. That a child gets to a point that violence is used to access cell phones means that there is a deep rooted problem and, IMO, that began with the parents.

Now going to read your second installment!



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