social media

“The answer when it comes to smoking is probably going to be the same answer when it comes to social media, which is that a lot of people will fail and won't be able to do it, even with sincere intentions. Some people will be able to quit cold turkey. And some …”

“And there's two things that seem to happen with all these people. One is they find when they detach that they get a lot of those powers back that they missed. So they're like, well, I can focus more, and I don't feel so jittery all day, and so on. But the seco…”

“The tools we have now are also the biggest envy generators that have ever been invented.”

“We're self-promoting what we plan to do, and then we get a bunch of people to go, oh, man, good luck. Go for it. You go, girl, whatever you see, and your brain, and this, I mean, this is true. There's a lot of research on this. Your brain goes, holy shit, look…”

“I really worry about this with social media that I feel like, especially, you know, younger kids being raised on social media don't even know what it's like to tell the full truth because everything Is so curated, and even diaries nowadays, you know, are kind …”

“The social media is viewed as such a bad thing for publications, but that's because they don't have the right business model. For me, social media is absolutely incredible. I mean, it's the most amazing channel that, that could ever be invented. I get to use i…”

“Because once we had social media, all the reputations are on the line all the time, but not in a consistent or honest way. That is anything you say can and will be distorted, taken out of context, used against you, so you better watch what you say. And we're f…”

“I think the case can be made and should be made, and I'm beginning to make, that every middle school principal should say, parents, please don't let your kids have a social media account. There should be no social media In middle school.”

“In Silicon Valley, the norm has been, you know, we, they don't let their kids use social media and that's been going on a long time.”

“When the millennials got social media in college or later, they weren't damaged by it. There's no sign that millennials had a crisis of mental health, because their social nature was largely, their brains were mostly developed.”

“So any parents who are listening to this podcast, I urge you to follow a few simple rules. That is two hours a day of screen time. And actually, the Apple controls are very good for that. The new ones just out a few months ago are actually very good for that. …”

“There are now a number of experiments in which they randomly assign people to get off social media for a few weeks and lo and behold, you see very direct improvements in mental health.”

“What you find when people are undisciplined into thinking, and you see this wildly on social media, is that people will judge a thing without comparing it to anything, except their imagined perfect state. But usually the other alternative is nothing like a per…”

“What they haven't talked about is, for example, that LGBTQ suicide has dropped, largely because one of the reasons, not the only reason, but one of the reasons is that people from disparate groups, if you lived in that small town and nobody was like you becaus…”

“If we didn't have all these social contact tools, then maybe we'd never have locked down. You know, we just couldn't do it. In which case, of course, the epidemic would have been worse. But to some extent, as it were the existence of the video conferencing and…”

“Whereas in the past, an adult in a child's life could typically see this was going on. So you would see your child wasn't being invited out with others. So a teacher would see a child not being asked to sit with others at school today because so much of their …”

“Once we got to Miami, that's kind of when the supernova sonic boom happened, and then the video and the ability to have the bandwidth to share all these things, that's when those things happened. I was disinterested by then. I wasn't all the way in. I was more…”

“If you're reporting on the party, you're not at the party. If you're reading about the party, you're not wherever you really are”

“The vast majority of people replying to you, and looking at you, and using the information you're putting out, are using it to hurt you. To reduce your autonomy. To make you feel bad about yourself. To create mental illnesses. To distort your perception of rea…”

“Yes, Canada did implement these unprecedented financial controls. Yes, it did affect these, you know, truckers, but because they were unable to successfully censor social media, Canada suffered probably the gravest PR disaster that I've ever seen in my life.”

“It's taken the desires from around the world and essentially shrunken them down and put them onto the head of a pin, which we're all standing on. If we're on social media, at least if we're big scrollers on social media and we don't have any boundaries The des…”

“With social media, with modern technology, that line between the external models of desire and internal is Is, is all but gone. Because it's almost as if everybody can be an internal model of desire now.”

“A lot of social media stock market tanked and revenue tanked when Apple announced a way to not be able to keep more information asymmetry, and boom, you can't predict many things about people, and therefore your revenue Well, tank because you can't predict th…”

“It used to be lonely at the top. Today it is lonelier at the top. People are lonely out there. People are lonely. And just having a group of people to talk to where nobody's going to put you on social media, make a fool of you, where you can just be a human.”

“Human connection has become drugified through social media.”

“We're self-promoting what we plan to do, and then we get a bunch of people to go, oh, man, good luck. Go for it. You go, girl, whatever you see, and your brain, and this, I mean, this is true. There's a lot of research on this. Your brain goes, holy shit, look…”

“Obviously this can take that to the nth degree. You know, I mean, it can change the realities. How's that gonna go, right? You can see the opportunities for abuse becoming extraordinary.”

“The cell phone is the seventh gate to hell. There's no question in my mind, because everything is perfect.”

“Well, just like social media is bots talking to bots, like A lot of our life is going to be like AI talking to AI.”

“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.”

“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 …”