Social Media

“Because, especially if you're sharing something online, you have barely half a second with an individual to really give them something of value.”

“Probably under 21, you shouldn't be allowed to be on social media. It's that bad for mental health.”

“If you're optimizing for engagement, which is what social media does, you can't also optimize for accuracy and quality, because that tends to not be what people engage with.”

“I think what we've seen with Obama kind of really creating modern-day populism at the same time that social media was coming about, the way we get our news, podcasts, all that stuff,”

“I believe that we have entered a permanent populist stage in this country, and I think that social media is the amplifier and the sustainer.”

“So, so I brought it up because I think that we could be heading in that direction with social media.”

“I would like to call a spade a spade and say, if the celeb has a decent IQ, please listen to them. Unfortunately, due to social media, anybody can become a star. So you have podcasters and YouTubers who may not have read a single book in their life.”

“And then post about, you know, outline your thesis in a thirty-five million dollar market cap company and send it up like a thousand percent. And there's a lot of that going on.”

“Being in the risk management business, I always know that everybody keeps doing that, and eventually you get, Canceled because you do, you know, you do something, you step over some invisible line that, you know, that nobody knew about. And so I realized that …”

“My kids are totally uninterested in social media. Like they just don't, they completely don't give a shit. They follow links to social media sometimes, but they have no interest in being, having accounts and they don't have phones.”

“The most important thing you need to do is separate social from media. The biggest mistake was combining them, and it creates a lot of perverse incentives.”

“Agentic development is addictive. It's, I think, the better kind of Addiction than like social media or passive consumption. It's like creative addiction, which is kind of good.”

“Each viral social media meme explosion is like a two and a half day panic cycle.”

“The degree to which partisans of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams attack each other in the 1800 election is, like, Way beyond even what we see today on social media.”

“This happens with the content that we consume too, not just people in our, you know, physical reality, but people in our virtual reality as well. And, you know, you can feel this when you're scrolling on social media and how you feel afterward, which is why it…”

“Social media causes immense harm, particularly causes harm for kids. Kids should not be on social media until they're 16.”

“What is social media? I view it literally not so much different than the neighborhood you know, pot or crack dealer. It's there to get kids hooked and addicted and put a lifetime of interdependency.”

“Reddit's different than social media. It's organized around communities, not the, what I call the F's. Friends, family, famous people, followers.”

“What's interesting about Reddit is you don't get famous in the real world for being good at Reddit. You might become infamous once in a while. You don't become rich by being good at Reddit. So, which is not true on social media. You can become rich and famous …”

“Being able to generate attention is not as transferable as to business outcomes as it used to be.”

“I think that we do see this a lot with also, well, there's sort of the piece where people use it and that sort of react in real time to certain things, but I think there's some degree of depolarization. And that's what Luana is alluding to. Like, and in some w…”

“The way I'm looking at it with all the geopolitical stuff going on, if I were to wager a guess, I would think at some point in the future, we will all live in a more multipolar world where we individually countries go down the path of Russia and China, where m…”

“In the absence of governmental support and intervention, the answer is no. The natural momentum is for monocultural consolidation. And the reason is because we've assumed and we've given the responsibility to an algorithmic arbiter that only values one thing a…”

“And it does feel like a parenting skill issue a little bit, like, you know, it is possible to keep kids away from social media if you are an, you know, an active parent, but at the same time I don't know”

“Steve Jobs, you know, he'll invent the iPad and the iPhone, but at home his kids don't use it. Zuckerberg, his kids aren't on social media. It's like, do as they do, not as they say that you should do, right?”

“I took my, an old phone. I put social media on that phone so that if people text me social media links, I can't open them. It also means that when I take out that phone, I'm posting or commenting or doing that. And I keep it in this lockbox, which is like a su…”

“Our biggest mistake is that over the last 10 years, we gave one of the most important jobs in the world to algorithms, and they did a terrible, terrible job.”

“Data shows that the youngest of people, age group, 16 to 20, 22, are spending lesser time on social media, significantly lesser.”

“Like you had these models from Taiwan, that they actually built it and it worked well, that you can take the same basic premises of social media and reverse them. You can have the algorithm rewarding content, like the algorithm, first of all, in this Taiwan sy…”

“Definitely yes to the failed influencers, because it's difficult.”

“With social media, the teams now have little like trends, little meme moments, and if you can fast follow those meme moments and create stuff that's gonna like, kind of make somebody laugh or be worth sharing on social media, you can actually get a lot of spre…”

“I still think social media is by far the best for accuracy.”

“I think by comparison, they won't appreciate it in greater degrees than we didn't appreciate our progress because of social media, because they have only known an era when, which not just there are some, but there are literally tens of hundreds of millions of …”

“If you apply Machiavelli's thinking, Tony Prince that acts philanthropic, or acts kind, or acts like a family man, especially in our DNA with social media, it's absolutely impossible. Because you will have one bad moment, and it will come out. Regardless of ho…”

“Our culture way over values significance today because of social media.”

“Unfortunately, today, most people seek nourishment in movies, in, you know, scrolling on the social media. They feel that is what is, you know, decreasing the stress without realizing that actually subtly increasing the stress. It is not helping you relax. It …”

“Social media, you Has a very short half-life and that's fine. It can serve a role in the business, but I'm never going to make it my central thing because something like a blog post has a little bit longer half-life, but a book really has a long half-life.”

“Social media Is dependent on your unpaid labor, emotional and otherwise. Like, it is designed to make you uncomfortable, or provoke you into clicking, reading, or posting, or watching, or whatever it is, and that, like, it's really good at that.”

“Social media is the hardest category to succeed in, and that's why they've been able to do it.”

“What they're really talking about is social media, and then they attribute all the ills of social media over to these new AI chat apps, and they are a little different.”

“These are actually the most sophisticated and most influential form of social media ever created.”

“I'm just saying be very skeptical if you assume that to be the case. Don't assume transference. Prove transference, right?”

“Social networking may be the most popular product of all time that was invented and then uninvented. It was literally uninvented because around 20 12, it became social media. And the moment it became social media, your friends became your followers. You stoppe…”

“There are things that have always been true, let's say in, in paid marketing or what happens in social media is like you get a lot of these concepts and patterns that work incredibly effectively in. Paid advertising for a very short period of time and stop wor…”

“Social media. Is one of the worst things to happen to humanity.”

“I think that there's a massive opportunity or lots of massive opportunities to take a look at what's happening in the AI space, the social media space, the content space, just go the opposite way. And you're going to find that a lot of people want exactly that…”

“I think you're going to see you're going to see more, more social media move to semi-private that look more like group chats, and it can be around, you know, sports or music or technology or relationships just because I think that people might be a little bit …”

“Now with social media, and by the way, all the amazing things you guys are doing, I feel like the exposure, I got fifteen-year-old boys who are twins, and they're so exposed to this stuff, just, and I don't think that they're, because of, I don't think that's …”

“And so I think we'll see a next generation of social media emerge. That's verifiably human.”

“I think there's, like, some sort of, like, power law distribution with, like, what social media does for businesses, where for most people having, like, a Social media feed that, like, looks nice. It's like, doesn't do anything. But if you actually have, like…”

“I think it's less that there's a lot of social media sort of oriented folks that have now moved into AI. It's more that I think a lot of the best product people were focused on that, you know, even four years ago, you know, pre-chat GPT you know, pre the emerg…”

“As it relates to how companies now approach the government, I do think there is a world of storytelling that founders and companies need to do that is social media first. And lose the muscle of, oh, maybe I'll place a story in fast companies. And Fast Company …”

“I think we've seen some good players emerge in the social media space like a blue sky that doesn't seem to be focused on getting people to, you know, just spend as much time as possible on the platform all the time. That said, I think it limits their growth”

“And I think that one way to kind of think about this thesis is that AI is gonna ultimately accrue to video game entertainment far more than social media entertainment or traditional content.”

“The distribution of between craft and slop has been growing for decades, maybe forever, and is continuing to grow with the development of AI content.”

“A lot of the nationalism all around the world is because social media essentially struck a chord with the core issue that all the technology productivity didn't really get passed on properly to everybody in society.”

“Organizing on social media and the ability of social media to, To cause change in the world. That has certainly not gone away even as it's faded from the headlines.”

“These stories will never be covered exactly in the fawning way they were previously, because I think the world now really understands that there is a complex set of consequences that come. When you have social media introduced into society and used to organize…”

“And I think there are definitely like the thing that would break Substack is if we just looked at the same way that the legacy social media things built advertising and said, oh, we're just going to copy that. Like that's going to work because And if we did th…”

“For the last, I'd say, two, maybe three years, I've had no social media apps on my phone, because if you think you're going to use discipline to beat teams of, you know, computational neuroscientists and statisticians and computer scientists who are, have bill…”