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The Social Dilemma

It's not justthat it's controlling where they spend their attention

[cell phone chimes] [Tristan] It's not just
that it's controlling where they spend their attention

Full Transcript

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[cell phone chimes]
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[Tristan] It's not just that it's controlling
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where they spend their attention.
Duration
6 seconds
Views
109
Timestamp in Movie
00:38:16
Uploaded
Jun 03, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
Especially social media starts to dig deeper and deeper down into the brain stem - The Social Dilemma 00:10
Especially social media starts to dig deeper and deeper down...
[Tristan] We evolved to care about whether other people in our tribe... - The Social Dilemma 00:05
[Tristan] We evolved to care about whether other people in o...
But were we evolved to be aware of what 10,000 people think of us? - The Social Dilemma 00:06
But were we evolved to be aware of what 10,000 people think ...
We were not evolved to have social approval being dosed to us - The Social Dilemma 00:07
We were not evolved to have social approval being dosed to u...
[Chamath] We curate our lives around this perceived sense of perfection - The Social Dilemma 00:14
[Chamath] We curate our lives around this perceived sense of...
And instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity... - The Social Dilemma 00:04
And instead, what it really is is fake, brittle popularity.....
That's short-term and that leaves you even more, and admit it, - The Social Dilemma 00:07
That's short-term and that leaves you even more, and ad...
Because then it forces you into this vicious cycle - The Social Dilemma 00:14
Because then it forces you into this vicious cycle
[Jonathan] There has been a gigantic increase - The Social Dilemma 00:11
[Jonathan] There has been a gigantic increase
The number of teenage girls out of 100,000 in this country - The Social Dilemma 00:16
The number of teenage girls out of 100,000 in this country
It's up 62 percent for older teen girls. - The Social Dilemma 00:05
It's up 62 percent for older teen girls.
It's up 189 percent for the preteen girls. That's nearly triple. - The Social Dilemma 00:05
It's up 189 percent for the preteen girls. That's ...
Even more horrifying, we see the same pattern with suicide. - The Social Dilemma 00:04
Even more horrifying, we see the same pattern with suicide.
The older teen girls, 15 to 19 years old, - The Social Dilemma 00:08
The older teen girls, 15 to 19 years old,
The preteen girls, who have very low rates to begin with, - The Social Dilemma 00:07
The preteen girls, who have very low rates to begin with,
Gen Z, the kids born after 1996 or so, - The Social Dilemma 00:10
Gen Z, the kids born after 1996 or so,
[thunder rumbling in distance] - The Social Dilemma 00:06
[thunder rumbling in distance]
They come home from school, and they're on their devices. - The Social Dilemma 00:04
They come home from school, and they're on their device...
A whole generation is more anxious, more fragile, more depressed. - The Social Dilemma 00:06
A whole generation is more anxious, more fragile, more depre...
-[thunder rumbles] -[Isla gasps] - The Social Dilemma 00:05
-[thunder rumbles] -[Isla gasps]