What podcasts say about Social media
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What experts have said about Social media
24 statements · 4 positive · 20 negative
Social platforms should shift users from low-quality content toward high-value communities.
“the more that we could shift from the crappy stuff to the high-calorie stuff, uh, the better.”
Open the episode · We Gave Away $2,000,000 To 5 AI Builders | MOONSHOTS LiveListen at 14:18
Social media accelerates underlying political violence tensions.
“Social media matters, but it's like pouring gasoline on an underlying fire.”
Open the episode · Democrats vs Republicans: Who Is Actually More Violent? - Robert Pape #1154Listen at 24:08
Emotionally sensitive teenagers may face greater social-media-related risks.
“for, kids whose their frontal lobe isn't fully developed, I think they probably are at higher risk”
Open the episode · Why You Feel Everything So Deeply (and how to survive it) - Dr Sasha Hamdani - #1147Listen at 1:08:24
Social media lets people obtain significance with little effort and few consequences.
“social media is so terrible. There's great things. Social media is what's so terrible about it. It's like people now can meet their need for significance without much effort, no consequence.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Tony Robbins Reveals The Key To A Meaningful LifeListen at 4:36
Social media disproportionately elevates significance and increases unhappiness.
“Social media has made significance disproportionate in our culture and it's why people are so unhappy.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Tony Robbins Reveals The Key To A Meaningful LifeListen at 20:19
Prepubescent children and teenagers may be better prevented from using social media.
“you might actually not want to want like prepubescent teens and maybe teens to be using some of these things.”
Open the episode · Bill Gates foresees massive AI job loss: these VCs disagree | E2330Listen at 35:49
Social-media manipulation contributes to the rise of democratic socialism.
“I attribute it to the rise of the, you know, the democratic socialists. I attribute it to the rise. I mean it's a lot of this manipulation”
Open the episode · #2542 - Steve HiltonListen at 27:27
Social media has harmful effects on people’s behavior.
“That's why social media sucks.”
Open the episode · #2539 - Protect Our Parks 17Listen at 3:31:12
Social media has democratized the creation of celebrity wealth.
“Social media, for all its fault has. Fault has been the great democratization of celebrity wealth has come from social media.”
Open the episode · AI Bubble, Waymo Ditches Uber, Jacinta Allan’s Disaster, KPMG Scandal and Jim Chalmers’ Crashes Housing in All the Wrong PlacesListen at 35:27
Social media is used to signal personal success through luxury consumption.
“there's a huge use of it to try to communicate to people that you're a winner”
Open the episode · SpaceX Returns to Earth, Tesla's Shrinking Powers and Atlassian Ruins LoomListen at 6:24
Modern Social-Media Content Resembles Historical Yellow Journalism
“All yellow journalism is now is like exactly what we see when we open up Instagram or X.”
Open the episode · 14 Patterns Behind the World’s Greatest Minds - David Senra - #1126Listen at 19:33
Social media has substantially damaged public discourse.
“social media has ruined discourse in a lot of ways”
Open the episode · #2526 - JD VanceListen at 15:44
Social-media comparison drives lifestyle inflation.
“I think that's one of the drivers of lifestyle inflation.”
Open the episode · Why Everyone Is Drowning In Debt (and how to get out) - Caleb Hammer - #1123Listen at 1:40:09
Social media contributes substantially to young adults’ increased interest in entrepreneurship.
“I think it's social media has got a lot to do with this.”
Open the episode · Ask Us Anything: How do you explain average grades? + Should workers own more of the businesses they help build?Listen at 10:12
Social media is generally harmful or undesirable.
“in general, social media is, like, not great”
Open the episode · Why the VC Hype Cycle Always Gets It Wrong | VC Roundtable | E2307Listen at 3:42
Internet and social media use increased anxiety beyond prior levels without corresponding physical threats.
“I think it probably slowly ramped up until social media came up, and then it's probably significantly higher than it's ever been before without real threats.”
Open the episode · #2518 - Tim DillonListen at 49:51
Social media can expose alleged government or media manipulation.
“some of that is what's exposing this stuff.”
Open the episode · #2515 - Chase HughesListen at 2:22:24
Andrew believes social media is substantially worse than the opioid crisis.
“I am confident that it is way, way worse than the quote unquote opioid crisis”
Open the episode · The Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy StumpfListen at 23:30
Social media exponentially increases the audience and consequences of social mistakes.
“now with social media, you've got to worry about 5 or 10 million. So the consequences of doing something wrong are unbelievably, exponentially increased”
Open the episode · Psyop Expert: Secret Techniques For Psychological Power - Chase Hughes - #1103Listen at 1:55
Joe says social media harms people’s mental health.
“the newest element that targets your mental health and goes after it, which is social media.”
Open the episode · #2499 - Marcus KingListen at 2:02:30
Social media digitally reproduces the supernormal-stimulus dynamic found in nature.
“what you've seen on social media is tapping into this exact dynamic. It's the same thing. It's just that you've had to replicate it digitally.”
Open the episode · Kratom Addiction, Naked Justice & The Uber Eats To OF Pipeline - #1091Listen at 1:58:08
Social media systematically pushes beauty, political, and mental-health trends toward extremes.
“social media will drag everything to its inevitable extreme”
Open the episode · The Extreme Crisis of Young Women - Freya India - #1090Listen at 55:16
Social media can produce addiction-like repeated use despite diminishing enjoyment.
“it has the characteristics of an addiction where you keep going back to it even though you're not getting the high from it that you did the first time”
Open the episode · Science & Tools of Learning & Memory | Dr. David EaglemanListen at 1:29:09
Social media is unsafe for children and causes harm across multiple dimensions.
“social media is not safe for kids, that it causes harm at many different levels”
Open the episode · Dopamine Expert: Short Form Videos Are Frying! People Don't Understand This Is A Dopamine Disaster!Listen at 43:49
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