Boxing Clever: The Social Dilemma reeks of hysteria

The Social Dilemma is like the Magic Door on Bosco... if it was made by a three-year-old, using actors from Mad Men

Skyler Gisondo in The Social Dilemma (Credit: Netflix)

One moment in The Social Dilemma (Netflix) made me sit up and shout . A guy is running through the list of effects that social media has on humans, when he got to ‘parents are too busy on their phones to spend time with their kids.’ I’d say this guy doesn’t have kids.

Here’s what would happen if I couldn’t check the latest transfer rumours for Manchester United because social media and smartphones didn’t exist. I’d pick up a book, or a newspaper, or an axe —  anything that parents have been doing down through the centuries to get a 10-minute break from their smallies.