A suggestion for anyone that breaks away from social media, but still uses something like UA-cam: be careful, and keep an eye out for your mental health while using UA-cam. There are some people that have been able to get better/get out of an unhealthy addictive habit by just having UA-cam as their only social media (which, all power to them - anything that helps with getting out of unhealthy social media addiction/habits is a good thing). However, just because UA-cam can be a lesser-of-evils for some people doesn't mean it still isn't an evil for others. Source: I'm someone that struggles with UA-cam addiction issues, even when it's the only social media that I use the most.
Yeah men because of lies of the internet also disrespect women. Social media is teaching people women friendzone nice guys they want bad boys. Women want alphas confident funny dudes. So they act like that. Women don't make first move. While some of this points are rarely true it's not the case most of the time. Women make first move they care about personality
Adults can make their own decisions. Some adults make decisions we don't like. Some adults make decisions we can't understand. Some adults make decisions that people follow. I'm gonna do me and say what I feel is right for most Adults. Hate me, disregard me, agree with me, it doesn't matter to me. At the end of the day we are all just trying to get home.
social media didnt poison humanity.. social media greatly benefited humanity. people are much less violent nowadays because they are on social media. if they were doing in person interactions then they would be much more violent.
I encourage every young person I talk to to start despising social media and delete their apps. Social media is by far the deadliest psychological weapon ever deployed on mankind. The amount of harm it has created and continues to create is sickening.
People are waking up. Social Media is a snare. The first step in freeing ourselves is admitting we have been trapped. Step 2 is flat out rejecting smart phones. Technology can have a place in our lives, but it can no longer be THE focal point.
Why no one is taking action on social media Why we need to adapt to social media, Social media should have adapted to us Why social media is allowed to be designed to be addictive?? Isn't it supposed to help humanity , it's just a bad product Why we can't just change it or redesign it ?? Why no one is taking action on this world wide monster that we created ?
Social media is a trace. I quit cold turkey a couple days ago because I realized this. I'd wasted an evening arguing a difference of opinion that nobody should have cared about. In real life, I would have disengaged or agreed to disagree, but something about this digital cochise makes people value "winning" so much more than should be reasonable.
Especially the videos that teach men to hate women. They disrespect women because of social media. Women hate nice guys they friendzone them, they like alpha chad bab boys who are confident funny good looking and rich. They don't make first move. This are lies they make first move they don't care about shyness or confidence aslong as your respectful.
I left Twitter and Facebook years ago and it was totally worth it. Social media is like sitting in a doctor's office reading one old People magazine after another. I like persons, but I'm not fond of people. Humans as pack animals is a disaster waiting to happen.
I don't think there is enough attention on this topic. Needs to be addressed urgently. Social media addiction is an emergent mental health issue and in another decade will result is a full blown epidemic. Even worse - the absolute dependence on public opinion to resolve any and every issue.
I agree with him! Social media brings us closer but also separates us apart as we hardly talk to each other face to face making us feel more lonely and alone and it also makes most people egotistical, vain, conceited and narcissistic.
I got deleted after 10 years. Just before that- it was pushing the most disgusting content- violence.. rage baiting. And for some reason what seemed like bot accounts were bombarding my comments- rude remarks- mean. And then I got deleted for responding
I agree it’s been so bad for all age ranges. Miserable people use it to cope with their feelings by attacking others online. It’s so unhealthy and even more concerning, is that people that behave like that aren’t even aware of their behaviour.
My mom attack me through social media posting because i change my religious beliefs it is a sarcasm form and toxic even though my name was not there so was a feeling that post is for me.then relationship declines and through that i was suffering mental problems😢
Social media should be labeled as an addiction and mental disease. It ruins potentially good people that could actually contribute to society it's truly sad TBH.
After my friend was stabbed to death; And, a woman whilst holding her two small children leapt off of a bridge -- I'm starting to take a good look at this topic. Both victims gave signs yet signs were ignored
as a 40 year old i remember my life pre social media age and smartphone i would be happy to go back i deleted my facebook and insta not regretting it for a minute
I stole this from a Reddit post but I'll share it here "Social media is like an e-commerce store but instead of products people are selling their lives." they act happier than they are, they look better than they do and then it becomes keeping up with Joneses on a MASSIVE scale just horrible!
social media hasnt done harm. what are you talking about? social media significantly reduced violence. people are no longer violently attacking each other in real life and they are nonviolently attacking each other online and causing no harm to each other.
I’m Gen Z and I feel like im addicted to the News and Social Media. I end up listening to it sometimes in the background until 2-3 am, when I can’t sleep. It makes me angry, hearing about foreign wars 24/7, hearing about the crime, the war our government calls politics. It’s always them vs you. It makes me just feel never ending anger sometimes after watching. The constant arguments, never ending fighting just feels addicting and exhausting at the same time after a while. But you struggle to stop.
I'm Gen Z also but I'm not really used to social media, I love politics, and I started reading about politics in social media. I take 1% knowledge and 99% anger. In the end I deleted all these apps because it's useless
kids shouldn't be on social media. they should be out with their friends socializing. Same goes for adults. It doesn't keep you connected. It's just seeing people you barely know show off their highlight reel of their lives, or posting their own attention seeking behavior because at the end of the day we want real human connection, but we've become self centered stars in our own reality show that no one really cares to watch anymore.
I’m 37 and I hate my phone but I feel hopeless without it and that sounds wild but I’m sure more people feel like that than not. I hate it and I hope our kids will turn on the phones
Argument from authority (Surgeon General) doesn't help you understand anything. In fact, nothing I've read around this indicates he really understands this issue. Good and bad is way too simplistic a way to understand programmable technology, all these people sound like cave men astounded at a device making sound and showing moving images. It doesn't matter that they're dressed up in a suit on a network television show, what they're saying and the way they are talking betrays their ignorance on the subject. While statistics may be bad with teens, don't pretend that adults aren't affected. If adults are going to focus that way and not look at themselves the kids will just see the hypocrisy and lack of self awareness from parents and those older. Use REASON. You listen to or read someone like Jaron Lanier and they will give you some understanding like these platforms are basically a Skinner box. Someone who doesn't understand a thing but just point out it's bad/dangerous is just going to show up as empty and hollow. Combine that with the hypocrisy/self awareness issue and you have no real chance other than to resort to something like "it's my house" or something along the lines of "kids today .." folgey speech. Being humble and admitting you don't know everything but maybe putting in some work to ACTUALLY LEARN so you can actually talk intelligently about it will be a more realistic approach. BTW, Many THERAPISTS do NOT understand it, even those who have written about it. Lanier is a technologist.
I've deactivated my social media accounts because I find that I'm happier with out them. Not to mention the wasted time and creating tension between me and some of my friends.
-- Sean Parker, founding President of Facebook, November 9, 2017 -- "When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.' And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.' And then they would say, 'No, no, no. I value my real-life interactions. I value the moment. I value presence. I value intimacy.' And I would say, ... 'We'll get you eventually.' "I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people and ... it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains." "The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, ... was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?'" "And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you ... more likes and comments." "It's a social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.""The inventors, creators - it's me, it's Mark [Zuckerberg], it's Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it's all of these people - understood this consciously. And we did it anyway." "Because I'm a billionaire, I'm going to have access to better health care so ... I'm going to be like 160 and I'm going to be part of this, like, class of immortal overlords. [Laughter] Because, you know the [Warren Buffett] expression about compound interest. ... [G]ive us billionaires an extra hundred years and you'll know what ... wealth disparity looks like." _________ -- Chamath Palihapitiya, VP for User Growth of Facebook 2007-2011, December 11, 2017 -- "It literally is a point now where I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it's not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem."
Lol, you don't realize how bad something is for you until you go overboard . I only quit social media when I realized "oh shi, my mental health is actually kinda bad now lol"
The end explaining the positive aspects like finding community is ironically part of the problem. If one negative, hate driven person finds like minds, then you have an army of negative hate filled people. I used to think maybe you can find some useful information on social media in the past but, now it all seems to be fake news, fear based or short attention grabbing snippets to shape your mind into an opinion. Also unless you put effort to meet the friends you make on social media, they’re not really friends, it’s just a surface layer bond with no support. All that said, I know we can shape social media to be the ideal tool for us in the future but, right now their motivation doesn’t seem to be for the good of their subscribers
i personally think kids shouldnt be allowed to have a smart phone till they r 18. they should be only allowed a basic phone for emergency purpose. schools should make this a rule, that no smart phones r allowed in the premises. just like alcohol n marriage there should a legal age limit for smart phones use as well. who's with me on this?
Doesn't it depend on the person? I mean how much difference is there a day before their 18th birthday and the actual day? That's a legal threshold, not when they understand or can be responsible for it. As far as I can tell plenty of older people cannot be responsible for it so that's not the solution.
@@markc5960 well then why do alcohol and marriage have age limit? dont they depend on the individual too? like some ppl r mature to marry early or drink early while some arent. but we still have age limit to prevent ppl from abusing at a really young age cos it has d potential to damage their lives. be it alcohol, marriage or even driving. our brains n body should have d adequate development to handle those things. so a common age was chosen considering all factors. but its not that ppl younger than that age cannot handle those stuff. kids know to drive these days. in my country ppl of my parents generation have gotten married at less than 18 yrs yet have had more stable marriages than our generation. anyway..point is everybody r diff but we cannot make laws on individual level. a law has to be pretty much common. and mark my words smart phones will get d status of a narcotic one day, its already proving to have d same neurochemical reactions in d brain as a narcotic. but its also essential for living, hence cannot be thrown away. it has to be used optimally. and for that u need to be mature n strong willed. this is why it shouldnt be used before a certain age. i rest my case.
Until 18? you are mistaken. In this virtual world, people need technology skills. What do you expect when parents give their kids a phone to throw all responsibilities to watch them and lock them at home with this phone because at " home " it more safe.
No 💩. The internet in general isn’t safe for kids. Back when parenting was important we weren’t allowed to watch R rated movies, swear, listen to parental advisory labeled music and there was consequences for our actions. Now kids have the internet which provides absolutely everything, parents are to blame. If you give a child access to the internet, that’s your fault. Kids are raised by social media, there’s no consequences, responsibility for the kids or the parents, kids even swear in front of or at their parents. Parents are to blame for these kids being on social media and all of the problems that have came from sensitivity. You can blame the phones and the platforms but the parents are at fault.
Come across atleast 50 US children dancing in their room while watching YT shorts. I always report it but a staggering amount of parents seem to not care at all
Funny that we have a "surgeon general" to tell us things like this. Sort of a captain hindsight now but, It has been common sense for some people from the introduction.
These regulators needs to move quicker! I hope they give choices for users to customize their social media more for their mental health. For example. I want to stop seeing shorts in my youtube........ Give us the option to disable it! There are many more possibilities here. For instance. The only thing i wanna see recommended to me are the creators i sub to. There must be an option to not show random videos that would potentially make dig a deeper rabit hole.
If you are struggling this election season with feeling over-stimulated, just understand that your best bet at protecting yourself is to put the phone down, get off the computer, turn off the TV. Go for a walk instead, start training yourself to be okay with being in silence. These videos and the social media companies are harming us with their algorithms and their AI.
I don’t understand how y’all let social media make y’all depressed. Social media shouldn’t make a yall depressed you don’t even know the person on social media
I suffer from an illness and use social media to keep in touch with other sufferers of this illness. It’s a crucial contact as Drs and people in general don’t understand what this illness is like. We share and support each other and we’re world-wide. Yes, I dip in and out of other sites but am aware I need to get out in the fresh air and socialise with others.
Social media is what it is. Know it understand it. If you have a business and or a brand, social media is a way to further growth. Social media being a way to connect? Well that was lost about 10 years after Facebook's inception. If you feel you have an avenue to brand then social media is your bag. If you are on social media for social purposes then, you might want to use the pharmaceutical drug called Urbrain.
What crap! Kids have been going through tough stuff long before social media. Parents put a phone in their kids’ hands that they don’t need as a babysitter. There’s such a thing as an off switch. We blame social media for all sorts of things. One thing though. No one forces you on it. Parents can say no. Oh you want a smart phone to get on social media? Great! You get a job so you can pay for the phone and your internet bill. Bet that’d put a damper and things!
The problem is that there is literally not an on and off switch with the smartphone. I figured that out when I started using a feature phone as well as a smartphone. The feature phone became the off switch to social media. Sure there were problems before social media but you can usually escape those problems for some time. Social media is addicting and this isn’t taken seriously enough yet.
We can't bury our heads in the sand and say social media has not caused more problems than it being beneficial! Yes we had problems prior to social media but social media took these problems, mutated them and made them worse !
I say kids should wait until high school until they are allowed to use social media because at that point they should be mature enough to use it responsibly. Or if the government wanted to they could make it illegal to use social media until the kids are of legal voting age because if kids are old enough to vote they are old enough to use social media responsibly as well.
@Jamie Marshall why girls though? What's the difference between teen boys and teen girls anyways that makes social media worse for teen girls than for teen boys? Teen girls are soft and weak and need to toughen up like them teen boys are.
@@jmar5785 social media is harmless and high school kids are mature enough to use it. social media has signficantly reduced violence as compared to in person interactions.
@@zampnanpy207 if the statistic you state is true, and I have no reason to think otherwise, you’re beginning state that social media is harmless is ridiculous. Reduce violence, maybe, at what cost? I taught high school for 10 years and have 4 children of my own, and I can tell you that, by and large, teenagers are not mature enough to healthily navigate social media
This guy is the worst. He STILL advocates keeping children in masks, which is FAR more damaging to a kid's mental and physical health than social media. He's like an arsonist complaining about the lack of fire safety.
social media has nothing to do with causing mental health problems. i recently had suicidal depression and it was the worst pain imaginable and was caused entirely by diet. blaming it on social media is making depression seem like a joke rather than a serious problem. this surgeon general just wants attention and doesnt care about the health of the youth. if anything, social media reduced violence because people can yell at each other online rather than in person.
@@sophiethelk9557 um. my thought process changed a bit. the issue was with diet but when you look at the gut biome, your looking at something that is extremely complicated. i was eating alot of chocolate, peanut butter, and almond butter during the time but i was also eating many other foods like potatoes, chicken, beef, pasta, milk, etc. also the surprising thing is that sadistic behavior is becoming common along with the mental health issues that many people are experiencing ( again most likely from the gut biome) . alot of people are not even treating this as a serious problem. im pretty sure this surgeon general is a sadist. i have seen lots of people that dont use social media and still live with mental health issues and are abused by others in horrible ways. i was just living next to someone with his stitches all around his neck because of abuse from others. a big issue with whats going on is the exploitation of wildlife. humans abused animals. both humans and animals are now lacking natural selection. part of natural selection included a strong desire to live and to make right choices. it led to a life with the least amount of suffering ( i believe ). it can look like animals suffer from death in the wild, but its unknown how much they "really" suffer since pain differs from organism to organism and time to time, similar to how we experience pain in video games.
Social media's impact is often oversimplified. While there are benefits to many aspects of our digital lives, it's crucial to consider whether the negatives outweigh the positives. In my view, social media is predominantly detrimental to society. Initially intended for connecting with loved ones, it has morphed into a toxic environment of comparison and validation-seeking. The pursuit of followers and likes fuels a cycle of dopamine-driven gratification. Consider the impact: a recently divorced individual viewing seemingly blissful couples, or an insecure teenager measuring themselves against popular peers. Denial of its harmful effects is shortsighted.
@@lewisburton1852 "comparison and validation-seeking". i literally compare myself all the time with others in high school and college. i didnt have social media in high school. i even had validation-seeking behavior in person as well and it didnt even harm me. if anything, i was physically attacked alot more in person as compared to online.
A suggestion for anyone that breaks away from social media, but still uses something like UA-cam: be careful, and keep an eye out for your mental health while using UA-cam. There are some people that have been able to get better/get out of an unhealthy addictive habit by just having UA-cam as their only social media (which, all power to them - anything that helps with getting out of unhealthy social media addiction/habits is a good thing). However, just because UA-cam can be a lesser-of-evils for some people doesn't mean it still isn't an evil for others.
Source: I'm someone that struggles with UA-cam addiction issues, even when it's the only social media that I use the most.
Not just kids. Adults as well
Yeah men because of lies of the internet also disrespect women. Social media is teaching people women friendzone nice guys they want bad boys. Women want alphas confident funny dudes. So they act like that. Women don't make first move. While some of this points are rarely true it's not the case most of the time. Women make first move they care about personality
Adults can make their own decisions. Some adults make decisions we don't like. Some adults make decisions we can't understand.
Some adults make decisions that people follow.
I'm gonna do me and say what I feel is right for most Adults. Hate me, disregard me, agree with me, it doesn't matter to me. At the end of the day we are all just trying to get home.
Social media has poisoned humanity.
more likely it has been a mirror and people don't like the reflection...
Absolutely. Life was much better before all this crap.
@@deadreckoning6288Facts I've said the same thing & it has us caring about stuff that we could careless about
social media didnt poison humanity.. social media greatly benefited humanity. people are much less violent nowadays because they are on social media. if they were doing in person interactions then they would be much more violent.
the censorship and CIA meddling with it is probably the biggest danger to the population.
I encourage every young person I talk to to start despising social media and delete their apps. Social media is by far the deadliest psychological weapon ever deployed on mankind. The amount of harm it has created and continues to create is sickening.
People are waking up. Social Media is a snare. The first step in freeing ourselves is admitting we have been trapped. Step 2 is flat out rejecting smart phones. Technology can have a place in our lives, but it can no longer be THE focal point.
100% correct
It’s not just young people. I find I struggle with getting addicted to social media when I’m stressed or isolated. I’m 41!
thank you!! I wish they would stop highlighting teens. 24 and spend hours on it.
@@edj2045same!!
Facts. I'm 40 and I feel that way also
Exactly
I’m 35
Sadly being off social media has left me more isolated and alone
But it’s def bad and I regret ever having it
Why no one is taking action on social media
Why we need to adapt to social media,
Social media should have adapted to us
Why social media is allowed to be designed to be addictive?? Isn't it supposed to help humanity , it's just a bad product
Why we can't just change it or redesign it ??
Why no one is taking action on this world wide monster that we created ?
Adults are affected too and often aren't as disciplined as they think.
Social media is a trace. I quit cold turkey a couple days ago because I realized this. I'd wasted an evening arguing a difference of opinion that nobody should have cared about. In real life, I would have disengaged or agreed to disagree, but something about this digital cochise makes people value "winning" so much more than should be reasonable.
Absolutely agree
It makes people act like jerks not just online but spills into real life too
Especially the videos that teach men to hate women. They disrespect women because of social media. Women hate nice guys they friendzone them, they like alpha chad bab boys who are confident funny good looking and rich. They don't make first move. This are lies they make first move they don't care about shyness or confidence aslong as your respectful.
Ugh 😩😩😩😩😩
I hate social media platforms it’s the devil in a screen
Ugh I wish I didn't talk to anyone and am paying the price high 😞
I left Twitter and Facebook years ago and it was totally worth it. Social media is like sitting in a doctor's office reading one old People magazine after another. I like persons, but I'm not fond of people. Humans as pack animals is a disaster waiting to happen.
I'm 70 but it makes me angry arguing with other old people like me.
I don't think there is enough attention on this topic. Needs to be addressed urgently. Social media addiction is an emergent mental health issue and in another decade will result is a full blown epidemic. Even worse - the absolute dependence on public opinion to resolve any and every issue.
Omg.. finally. Mentally health issues, this is where a lot of it starts these days.
People don't want to listen but the go on damaging other people's lives
Social media is probably responsible for less dating,and social relationships.
🤭 they’re gonna make sure we live longer as a result. (So we can keep working.)
The problem isn’t connecting with others through social media, the problem is when that’s the only way someone connects with other people.
I agree with him! Social media brings us closer but also separates us apart as we hardly talk to each other face to face making us feel more lonely and alone and it also makes most people egotistical, vain, conceited and narcissistic.
I quit social media cold turkry this week. Came here for reinforcement. Thanks!
the issue is people pretending theyre happy and people compare their lives to everyone else.
Me too
I got deleted after 10 years. Just before that- it was pushing the most disgusting content- violence.. rage baiting. And for some reason what seemed like bot accounts were bombarding my comments- rude remarks- mean. And then I got deleted for responding
@@alwaysyouramanda this is so crazy. Also I impulsively bought a flip phone 🥲
You Tube is social media too 😂
I agree it’s been so bad for all age ranges. Miserable people use it to cope with their feelings by attacking others online. It’s so unhealthy and even more concerning, is that people that behave like that aren’t even aware of their behaviour.
My mom attack me through social media posting because i change my religious beliefs it is a sarcasm form and toxic even though my name was not there so was a feeling that post is for me.then relationship declines and through that i was suffering mental problems😢
Social media should be labeled as an addiction and mental disease. It ruins potentially good people that could actually contribute to society it's truly sad TBH.
SUPER IMPORTANT ISSUE!!
I REGRET REGRET EVER OPENING FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM AND IMAGINE IM 56 YEARS OLD 💔 😪...I WILL DELETE IT EVENTUALLY
I’m 57 and have a terrible addiction. I want off SM
Social media promotes OCD and depression
People overlook the effect it has on adults. It's far worse. People are unable to hold an responsibility over the usage of these apps today.
After my friend was stabbed to death; And, a woman whilst holding her two small children leapt off of a bridge -- I'm starting to take a good look at this topic. Both victims gave signs yet signs were ignored
as a 40 year old i remember my life pre social media age and smartphone i would be happy to go back i deleted my
facebook and insta
not regretting it for a minute
I stole this from a Reddit post but I'll share it here "Social media is like an e-commerce store but instead of products people are selling their lives." they act happier than they are, they look better than they do and then it becomes keeping up with Joneses on a MASSIVE scale just horrible!
So spot on
Social media has done more harm than good to humanity.
social media hasnt done harm. what are you talking about?
social media significantly reduced violence. people are no longer violently attacking each other in real life and they are nonviolently attacking each other online and causing no harm to each other.
Social media is the quote *"Give a man a mask and he'll show you their true face"* in a nutshell.
Just like mainstream news. Always stories that trigger, anger or depress you.
Deleted 3 years ago
And i’m a normal human being now .
It makes it impossible to move on from past relationships. Had to shut mine down.
We are turning it off and getting back to real interactions and nature.
He's RIGHT
I find it crazy how kids are allowed to use social media before they are old enough to either vote in an election or to take a driving test.
CONNECT ???
Bull sh**
I’m Gen Z and I feel like im addicted to the News and Social Media. I end up listening to it sometimes in the background until 2-3 am, when I can’t sleep. It makes me angry, hearing about foreign wars 24/7, hearing about the crime, the war our government calls politics. It’s always them vs you. It makes me just feel never ending anger sometimes after watching. The constant arguments, never ending fighting just feels addicting and exhausting at the same time after a while. But you struggle to stop.
I'm Gen Z also
but I'm not really used to social media, I love politics, and I started reading about politics in social media. I take 1% knowledge and
99% anger. In the end I deleted all these apps because it's useless
kids shouldn't be on social media. they should be out with their friends socializing. Same goes for adults. It doesn't keep you connected. It's just seeing people you barely know show off their highlight reel of their lives, or posting their own attention seeking behavior because at the end of the day we want real human connection, but we've become self centered stars in our own reality show that no one really cares to watch anymore.
I’d like to take a time machine back to the 80s. Never needed social media and friendships were better. “ Id rather have 4 quarters than 100 Pennie’s”
“Staying connected” is an addicts excuse to stay on. You can stay connected to people in other ways.
and ADULTS
Wow who would’ve thought that?!
I’m 37 and I hate my phone but I feel hopeless without it and that sounds wild but I’m sure more people feel like that than not. I hate it and I hope our kids will turn on the phones
Of course it is
It’s all comparing yourself to others
And not everyone has same life
As long as theres no cyber bullying
Argument from authority (Surgeon General) doesn't help you understand anything. In fact, nothing I've read around this indicates he really understands this issue. Good and bad is way too simplistic a way to understand programmable technology, all these people sound like cave men astounded at a device making sound and showing moving images. It doesn't matter that they're dressed up in a suit on a network television show, what they're saying and the way they are talking betrays their ignorance on the subject.
While statistics may be bad with teens, don't pretend that adults aren't affected. If adults are going to focus that way and not look at themselves the kids will just see the hypocrisy and lack of self awareness from parents and those older. Use REASON. You listen to or read someone like Jaron Lanier and they will give you some understanding like these platforms are basically a Skinner box. Someone who doesn't understand a thing but just point out it's bad/dangerous is just going to show up as empty and hollow. Combine that with the hypocrisy/self awareness issue and you have no real chance other than to resort to something like "it's my house" or something along the lines of "kids today .." folgey speech. Being humble and admitting you don't know everything but maybe putting in some work to ACTUALLY LEARN so you can actually talk intelligently about it will be a more realistic approach.
BTW, Many THERAPISTS do NOT understand it, even those who have written about it. Lanier is a technologist.
I've deactivated my social media accounts because I find that I'm happier with out them. Not to mention the wasted time and creating tension between me and some of my friends.
And family😢
I'm starting to think that the adults are more delusional than the kids. Its a disease.
Too late. You can include adults to that too.
How many undiagnosed mentally ill person is online and induce more to be mentally ill as them?
-- Sean Parker, founding President of Facebook, November 9, 2017 --
"When Facebook was getting going, I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.' And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.' And then they would say, 'No, no, no. I value my real-life interactions. I value the moment. I value presence. I value intimacy.' And I would say, ... 'We'll get you eventually.'
"I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or 2 billion people and ... it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains."
"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, ... was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?'"
"And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you ... more likes and comments."
"It's a social-validation feedback loop ... exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you're exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.""The inventors, creators - it's me, it's Mark [Zuckerberg], it's Kevin Systrom on Instagram, it's all of these people - understood this consciously. And we did it anyway."
"Because I'm a billionaire, I'm going to have access to better health care so ... I'm going to be like 160 and I'm going to be part of this, like, class of immortal overlords. [Laughter] Because, you know the [Warren Buffett] expression about compound interest. ... [G]ive us billionaires an extra hundred years and you'll know what ... wealth disparity looks like."
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-- Chamath Palihapitiya, VP for User Growth of Facebook 2007-2011, December 11, 2017 --
"It literally is a point now where I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops that we have created are destroying how society works: no civil discourse, no cooperation, misinformation, mistruth. And it's not an American problem. This is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem."
kids today have no chance with social media. its ruining their minds
Yes. Ruining adults minds also
Lol, you don't realize how bad something is for you until you go overboard . I only quit social media when I realized "oh shi, my mental health is actually kinda bad now lol"
Too late, General.
The end explaining the positive aspects like finding community is ironically part of the problem. If one negative, hate driven person finds like minds, then you have an army of negative hate filled people. I used to think maybe you can find some useful information on social media in the past but, now it all seems to be fake news, fear based or short attention grabbing snippets to shape your mind into an opinion. Also unless you put effort to meet the friends you make on social media, they’re not really friends, it’s just a surface layer bond with no support. All that said, I know we can shape social media to be the ideal tool for us in the future but, right now their motivation doesn’t seem to be for the good of their subscribers
i personally think kids shouldnt be allowed to have a smart phone till they r 18. they should be only allowed a basic phone for emergency purpose. schools should make this a rule, that no smart phones r allowed in the premises. just like alcohol n marriage there should a legal age limit for smart phones use as well. who's with me on this?
stop with the "18" bs
Doesn't it depend on the person? I mean how much difference is there a day before their 18th birthday and the actual day? That's a legal threshold, not when they understand or can be responsible for it. As far as I can tell plenty of older people cannot be responsible for it so that's not the solution.
@@markc5960 well then why do alcohol and marriage have age limit? dont they depend on the individual too? like some ppl r mature to marry early or drink early while some arent. but we still have age limit to prevent ppl from abusing at a really young age cos it has d potential to damage their lives. be it alcohol, marriage or even driving. our brains n body should have d adequate development to handle those things. so a common age was chosen considering all factors. but its not that ppl younger than that age cannot handle those stuff. kids know to drive these days. in my country ppl of my parents generation have gotten married at less than 18 yrs yet have had more stable marriages than our generation. anyway..point is everybody r diff but we cannot make laws on individual level. a law has to be pretty much common. and mark my words smart phones will get d status of a narcotic one day, its already proving to have d same neurochemical reactions in d brain as a narcotic. but its also essential for living, hence cannot be thrown away. it has to be used optimally. and for that u need to be mature n strong willed. this is why it shouldnt be used before a certain age. i rest my case.
@@markc5960It really should be until 25 years old. Our brains do not stop developong until the age of 25
Until 18? you are mistaken. In this virtual world, people need technology skills. What do you expect when parents give their kids a phone to throw all responsibilities to watch them and lock them at home with this phone because at " home " it more safe.
No 💩. The internet in general isn’t safe for kids. Back when parenting was important we weren’t allowed to watch R rated movies, swear, listen to parental advisory labeled music and there was consequences for our actions. Now kids have the internet which provides absolutely everything, parents are to blame. If you give a child access to the internet, that’s your fault. Kids are raised by social media, there’s no consequences, responsibility for the kids or the parents, kids even swear in front of or at their parents. Parents are to blame for these kids being on social media and all of the problems that have came from sensitivity. You can blame the phones and the platforms but the parents are at fault.
This applies to twitter the most it’s just miserable
Social validation
Kids even still Adults
It makes me sick. Even UA-cam changed to match them.
Notice how much abusive content it pushes.. and on the weekends my bf noticed it pushes more pervy and violent stuff
I go on Google images and xxxx sites and bs popping up.
Yes they and everybody else are being hacked and harassed online too. Regulation is a must! Hackers are impersonating everyday people.
Come across atleast 50 US children dancing in their room while watching YT shorts. I always report it but a staggering amount of parents seem to not care at all
Funny that we have a "surgeon general" to tell us things like this. Sort of a captain hindsight now but, It has been common sense for some people from the introduction.
He's shameless to believe people give two craps about his label suggestions.
These regulators needs to move quicker! I hope they give choices for users to customize their social media more for their mental health.
For example. I want to stop seeing shorts in my youtube........ Give us the option to disable it! There are many more possibilities here. For instance. The only thing i wanna see recommended to me are the creators i sub to. There must be an option to not show random videos that would potentially make dig a deeper rabit hole.
Not hypothetical as some people think, supported by science..
Been said it
If you are struggling this election season with feeling over-stimulated, just understand that your best bet at protecting yourself is to put the phone down, get off the computer, turn off the TV. Go for a walk instead, start training yourself to be okay with being in silence. These videos and the social media companies are harming us with their algorithms and their AI.
I don’t understand how y’all let social media make y’all depressed. Social media shouldn’t make a yall depressed you don’t even know the person on social media
Good call, Sherlock. Definitely not a long-term issue or anything.
They have little zombie faces staring at phones even when there is so much happening around them b! It’s wild
what exactly is happening around them thats worth seeing?
I suffer from an illness and use social media to keep in touch with other sufferers of this illness. It’s a crucial contact as Drs and people in general don’t understand what this illness is like. We share and support each other and we’re world-wide.
Yes, I dip in and out of other sites but am aware I need to get out in the fresh air and socialise with others.
The government is the number one cause for mental health issues😂
Took you long enough
Social media is what it is. Know it understand it. If you have a business and or a brand, social media is a way to further growth.
Social media being a way to connect? Well that was lost about 10 years after Facebook's inception.
If you feel you have an avenue to brand then social media is your bag. If you are on social media for social purposes then, you might want to use the pharmaceutical drug called Urbrain.
Look at the hate comments they get
What crap! Kids have been going through tough stuff long before social media. Parents put a phone in their kids’ hands that they don’t need as a babysitter. There’s such a thing as an off switch. We blame social media for all sorts of things. One thing though. No one forces you on it. Parents can say no. Oh you want a smart phone to get on social media? Great! You get a job so you can pay for the phone and your internet bill. Bet that’d put a damper and things!
The problem is that there is literally not an on and off switch with the smartphone. I figured that out when I started using a feature phone as well as a smartphone. The feature phone became the off switch to social media. Sure there were problems before social media but you can usually escape those problems for some time.
Social media is addicting and this isn’t taken seriously enough yet.
We can't bury our heads in the sand and say social media has not caused more problems than it being beneficial! Yes we had problems prior to social media but social media took these problems, mutated them and made them worse !
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It got 100 times worse when tik tok exploded.
Everybody are on modern day Heroin!!!!!
Just ban computers!!!!
I say kids should wait until high school until they are allowed to use social media because at that point they should be mature enough to use it responsibly. Or if the government wanted to they could make it illegal to use social media until the kids are of legal voting age because if kids are old enough to vote they are old enough to use social media responsibly as well.
High school kids are not mature enough. The largest group of kids negatively affected is 14-16 year old girls.
@Jamie Marshall why girls though? What's the difference between teen boys and teen girls anyways that makes social media worse for teen girls than for teen boys? Teen girls are soft and weak and need to toughen up like them teen boys are.
this seems like something china would do
@@jmar5785 social media is harmless and high school kids are mature enough to use it. social media has signficantly reduced violence as compared to in person interactions.
@@zampnanpy207 if the statistic you state is true, and I have no reason to think otherwise, you’re beginning state that social media is harmless is ridiculous. Reduce violence, maybe, at what cost? I taught high school for 10 years and have 4 children of my own, and I can tell you that, by and large, teenagers are not mature enough to healthily navigate social media
Mr. Surgeon General 10 years too late lol
This guy is the worst. He STILL advocates keeping children in masks, which is FAR more damaging to a kid's mental and physical health than social media. He's like an arsonist complaining about the lack of fire safety.
Gun control couldn't hurt too
How come every time I see this guy he looks like hes made by AI 🤔
social media has nothing to do with causing mental health problems. i recently had suicidal depression and it was the worst pain imaginable and was caused entirely by diet. blaming it on social media is making depression seem like a joke rather than a serious problem. this surgeon general just wants attention and doesnt care about the health of the youth. if anything, social media reduced violence because people can yell at each other online rather than in person.
Im so sorry! How are you feeling now? What diet were you consuming, if you don’t mind me asking??
@@sophiethelk9557 um. my thought process changed a bit. the issue was with diet but when you look at the gut biome, your looking at something that is extremely complicated. i was eating alot of chocolate, peanut butter, and almond butter during the time but i was also eating many other foods like potatoes, chicken, beef, pasta, milk, etc.
also the surprising thing is that sadistic behavior is becoming common along with the mental health issues that many people are experiencing ( again most likely from the gut biome) . alot of people are not even treating this as a serious problem. im pretty sure this surgeon general is a sadist. i have seen lots of people that dont use social media and still live with mental health issues and are abused by others in horrible ways. i was just living next to someone with his stitches all around his neck because of abuse from others.
a big issue with whats going on is the exploitation of wildlife. humans abused animals. both humans and animals are now lacking natural selection. part of natural selection included a strong desire to live and to make right choices. it led to a life with the least amount of suffering ( i believe ). it can look like animals suffer from death in the wild, but its unknown how much they "really" suffer since pain differs from organism to organism and time to time, similar to how we experience pain in video games.
Social media's impact is often oversimplified. While there are benefits to many aspects of our digital lives, it's crucial to consider whether the negatives outweigh the positives. In my view, social media is predominantly detrimental to society. Initially intended for connecting with loved ones, it has morphed into a toxic environment of comparison and validation-seeking. The pursuit of followers and likes fuels a cycle of dopamine-driven gratification. Consider the impact: a recently divorced individual viewing seemingly blissful couples, or an insecure teenager measuring themselves against popular peers. Denial of its harmful effects is shortsighted.
@@lewisburton1852 "comparison and validation-seeking". i literally compare myself all the time with others in high school and college. i didnt have social media in high school. i even had validation-seeking behavior in person as well and it didnt even harm me. if anything, i was physically attacked alot more in person as compared to online.
@@zampnanpy207 😂 if in denial would be a person.
Timed to Disband Social Media nothing good Ever has come from Social Media
They need to start charging a monthly fee they wouldn’t be so big
You’re literally just now figuring this out? Ugh fire this man immediately
To quote Lady Gaga: SOCIAL MEDIA is the toilet of the internet!!!!
I deleted every social media app except UA-cam about a year ago to go old school on all you mfs 🔥