Episode 45: We need to talk about "The Social Dilemma!"

Feeding The Mouth That Bites You: Parenting Teens Into Adulthood

Kenneth Wilgus, PhD, P.C.

Christian Parenting, Christianity, Teens, Education, Teenagers, Kids, Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality, Adolescents, How To, Parenting Teens, Parents

4.9 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma" gives a unique perspective on social media from many of the creators of these apps... and it's NOT good news! Social media is watching everything you do and predicting exactly what you'll do next. The creators of this Frankenstein explain how it works and why they're very concerned for us. This week we have a free-wheeling discussion about the implications of this important documentary and the implications for parents of teenagers. Got questions or feedback? We want to hear from you! [email protected] Join us on Patreon for bonus content and more: https://www.patreon.com/FeedingTheMouthThatBitesYou

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0:00.0	You are listening to Feeding the Mouth That Bites You with Ashley Parrish and Jessica Pfeiffer.
0:05.6	A weekly podcast guide on parenting teens and launching them into the world.
0:10.0	As always, we are joined by psychologist and author, Dr. Ken Wilkes.
0:14.6	Hey, everyone, and welcome back. What are we talking about today?
0:19.5	Okay, we need to talk about the social dilemma. Yeah, if you
0:23.7	haven't heard, if you've been living under a rock, there is a documentary put out by Netflix
0:28.8	called The Social Dilemma. And it is an excellent documentary about social media and the
0:36.5	people who began all of this and it's fascinating what did you
0:41.3	guys think when you guys watched it yeah what did you think Heschley well I thought it was
0:44.8	interesting that a lot of the engineers and creators of these companies had worked for multiple
0:50.8	companies so like Twitter Google Facebook they had worked at at least one of
0:56.1	those, but oftentimes more than one. So they've like hopped around. So I thought that was really
1:00.8	interesting. This documentary was fascinating. And I think it wasn't one of those things that I watched
1:07.4	and thought, oh, I'd never thought about that. You know, I went to college and got a
1:12.6	marketing degree. So I was right in that world of trying to sell people product that they may or
1:19.0	may not need. You know, there was this idea that you're looking at people thinking, what kind of
1:24.6	need can I create for them or what kind of appetite can I create for them
1:30.0	that they're playing off a fear or playing off some sort of a feeling that they had that wasn't being
1:37.0	met. And so you're you're always looking at it as manipulative. And you know this as a marketer
1:41.9	that you're selling people product that they may or may not really need.
1:45.1	And this is what I knew ahead of time, but going into it and thinking about it in terms of social media and how we and our attention is the product being sold.
1:56.5	It was strangely eye-opening.
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