Jonathan Haidt: Has Social Media Destroyed a Generation? 

Just switch to playing online games instead

Yet, here you are on RU-vid: a social media site!

Same here. Quit FB, Insta, Online Dating..never felt better.

DO NOT go back

Staying off fb twitter and insta is easy but I know I’m addicted to RU-vid it’s the only one hard to not use cause I watch informational videos on here

I used to actively be part of the social glue for our neighborhood association. It has become more of a challenge in the last 10 years, because social isolation is the norm. The social skills needed for a civil society have declined.

That is really sad 😔

The kids are not ok

Nowadays you have Chat GPT to write your essays and AI programs to create art

@@kitty123yw More people than you'd think simply don't value social ties anymore. They have their spouse/dating life and family. Maybe one or two high school friends, but they don't meet up more than once a month or so. Those who do want friendship are sort of screwed. On the one hand, people are entitled; they'd rather someone else approach them than do the hard work. On the other hand, most people are a lot more flakey and wishywashy. They'll cancel plans at the last minute and smile to your face about how you should both get together sometime, but both parties know it'll never happen... people prefer 'niceness' (smiling and keeping each other at arms length) to vulnerability and risking dissenting opinions, since they know there's a good chance of being cut out of someone's life for believing different things. I'm finding that people overshare a lot more now about their personal business, and they make witchcraft, tattoos, edibles, and that oversharing their entire personality. It's really unsettling and unpleasant to be around.

our parents/grandparents used to say , ' you have it so good compared to our day'..and it was tiring. I tell the younger generation that 'we had to so much better compared to what exists today'... am very glad I am not in high school in the age of social media. This stuff is toxic.

Same and 100% agree.

@@ianjohnson458 80s 90s and earl 2000s were awesome times to grow up, i feel so sorry for kids nowadays.

Fucking nightmare. I might have gone goth.

I'm in my 40s. After traveling and working overseas with NGOs, my goal was to retire working for a university or small college somewhere rural or urban, in administration. Now that I have returned the USA since the pandemic and seen the state of our society and what's going on on our campuses, a "university" is the LAST place I would ever want to work!!! No thank you!!! Back to NGOs abroad, or a government job inside a stuffy cubicle.

Sad but true

Yep, we're COOKED!

I feel this. Although, I can't say my own local group has served me in the best direction. There's a existential problem living in a small hierarchy, only knowing that you fit in the categories of a few select 'monastery' people. Usually, somewhat smarter, more attractive and financial than you. Understanding that, there's a gateway to limitless information that either delivers you into the worst echo-chamber ever or a life worth living. It's a two sided coin, but knowing it's only two sides-where's the rest, you know?

All of our biology is opposite to what Social Media brings. But the problem is so big and wide. All of our senses and insctincts are constantly on overdrive in the modern world. We are soon to crumble

Amen!

I don't think it's the exposure to people, but rather the echo chambers and incentives for social media to trend irritating things.

I think humanity as whole is too focused on understanding things rather than physically doing things. There is way too much focus on second hand information (social media falls into that category), and not enough focus on reality.

same here. I'm becoming 29 this year and i fell i have screwed many aspects of my youth. can relate. Anger, depression, anxiety... all that crap. I have no friends. They are hooked to socials as well. people have become the weirdest ever. it is a sad sad story.

You already realised it and that is the most important! You can still learn and do anything you like, because now you are free to do so! I wish you a lot of strength!

This is all anyone can do, is wake up and try to free their own minds at this point.

Jheez this hits deep

This is literally like I wrote it, in every detail. I'm sorry but also I'm glad it's not just me. If I could go back in time I'd deprive my childhood self all computers and consoles until about the age of 19.

An influencer is someone who thinks people give a shit about them.

But Newton's Laws of Motion are a gateway drug to Newtonian Physics.

@@JoeSmith-tb9nc They are often narcissists.

@@gastronomist gravity is a helluva drug

Very smart, my daughter starts homeschooling on Monday, but it's way too late, the damage has already been done as she's 17 now. Such a shame, well done for protecting your daughter!

So sad, but 100% true

Born in 89 I remember times when I was so bored as a kid, like out of my mind boredom, but I don't really get that anymore probably because I can always access the internet

It's worse then that. I'm a new teacher. They'll type a question into Google, which will pull up a paragraph for them with the approximate answer highlighted. Even if the actual, more succinct answer is in the very next sentence, they'll give up. As if they weren't having the answer spoon-fed to them in the first place. What the hell did we do to this generation?

@@T_Fizzle

I think it's the teachers fault most teachers I know were just there to collect a paycheck and after reading this I feel it's even more true it's easy to blame technology because you gave up on life.

Progressivism: “Covered my butt with a plan-Demic.” 🤫

EVERY generation has been irreversibly damaged

@@H47Ronin ...by the previous generation -)

@One Culture Love Culture Not quite sure how that's relevant to this video unless you're part of the generation he's talking about?

All according to plan.

It should. Phd in psychology / BA in philosophy etc vs 'influencer'. See the difference?

Hive mind. Wow you're right

If you’re an adult who doesn’t vote you never grew up.

@@tzone962 voting is for people who have no control over their lives hoping someone will create structure for them

That’s legend dude. I quit Facebook at 21 I’m 27 almost 28 and almost want to take a look what happened to other people. But at the same time the reason I quit is because I could tell it was making everyone unsatisfied with life, even the people so called “making it”

I left fb because of the political fighting. I have so many friends addicted to it. FB is also one of the main reasons the pandemic got so out of control.

omg.... that is so true and enlightening

Again, the diagnose is wrong. It's not social media. It would happen with or without social media. It is your colleagues, the crazy professors, who brought all the evil to the society. They generate loads of loads of garbage to everywhere: every companies, every government offices and every institutions.

There's nothing wrong with smartphones. Idiots blame the tool. Blame the user. Mobile phones, and their more evolved younger siblings, are unimaginably useful devices and it never ceases to amaze me how such an incredibly useful device exists. Social media and smartphones are not the same thing, so don't conflate the two. If people can't handle the power, that is user error. Self-control (or lack thereof) isn't the device's problem.

Teens? I see every adult and senior doing the same thing, not just the teens

TV was harmful, video games were worse, cell phones and social media even worse. I'm from the video game generation. I still love TV, but it's definitely not good in anything more than small amounts. Really the only argument in its favor would be, "I know TV isn't productive, but how productive do we really need to be?" They may have a point. The more productive we get, the stupider the things we seem to produce with our time.

@@theboombody Wow. I totally agree with this. Social media and vain, unneeded technology has definitely spoiled a generation. The only thing i really think you could make an argument for being beneficial is the internet for the amount of information available but that could easily be replaced by a good set of books. Plus, most people use the internet as a tool of entertainment/bias confirmation rather than discovering new ideas or data. So yeah, communication technology sucks.

@@dylanbuchanan6511 I think it may be the 80/20 rule rearing its ugly head again. Things are fruitful 20% of the time and wasteful 80% of the time. The internet is no exception.

Mainly, people age and get old. A generation is already bored shirtless of social media. It had its day, positive and negative.

@@ishmaelforester9825 nah it has nothing to do with that , most kids that fall into gen z really can't handle real life stuff at least the ones that I come across in the work place. Social media and the internet , all of it has to do with it. People in general are just out of touch Nowadays and need a reality check.

I agree. I went to a concert last week and the energy in the arena was way off because almost everyone had their phones out recording instead of singing etc.

Same

@@iangpark those are rookie numbers i'm millenial (31) and spent like 16 hours a day on my PC lol. i'm a coder sooo

That's intensely sad.

@@iangpark how do you think spending five hours a day online for the last 11 years made you a better person?

I did too. I’m 27. But let me tell you. Beginning of 2020 I got rid of everything. No social media. Limited RU-vid time. I started hobbies, started reading more. Stop reading about petty internet drama. I can assure you, the negatives far outweigh the positives for social media. I am significantly happier now that I don’t use it.

The bad economy is what plagues your generation. To think it's something most people don't use regularly is foolish. It is always a simple variable and the poor economy that was looted by the boomers and older are why younger generations will abandon most of everything...

It's why I don't have a Twitter account.

I was sure twitter was going to fail. It seemed so stupid to try to say anything meaningful in 140 characters.

Why include the word bitches? All respect for your intellect. Gone.

Yes, I tweeted the same :-)

Yippee!

Same here. RU-vid just for info on my interests. Sometimes entertainment.

It's terrifying when I hear people say without Facebook they would not be able to keep in touch with family around the country. Really? Your family doesn't have a phone, email address, or physical address to send a letter to? It's truly ridiculous.

great point. but nowadays, you have to inform someone FIRST before you call them, otherwise it is considered harrassment loloooool

You brought up an interesting idea that I never thought about...a big reason why people so willingly gave up their privacy, was for the ego boost that comes with likes and shares

Nowadays the kids literal first moment on Earth is shared on FB from the delivery room! Insanity.

Yes, you are right. The Generation Z kids will have to face something that their ancestors didn't. Their prospective employers and school admission counselors can type in their names and see and read about the tantrums they had as toddlers or the obnoxious things they did as teenagers. There have always been narcissists, but social media amplifies that and makes it known.

Good point, so often overlooked. And boundaries are getting squashed in every area of life.

Maybe with the speaker's suggestion about an age restriction for internet access, we should inhibit posting images/videos of minors on social media. I'm not sure how as I know many grandparents like to see their grandkids in pictures from their daughter's page, but I think it is worth considering. The free speech libertarian side of my brain also doesn't want to tell people what to do by rules, but it seems a bit careless to post pictures and stories of minors online without some barrier.

I feel for your generation. My son is 23. I am 63 and grew up in the 60s and 70s. It really was a great time to grow up in. I turned 22 in 1982.

They're all gonna turn out like me. Everyone should be VERY concerned about this. 😔

great point of view

Sadly, majority of those 50 and 60 year old are too invested in politics online more than anything. And this is how Facebook died. The younger audience left for Twitter and Tumblr while the older generations stayed. Imho, I can sympathize with younger audiences not wanting to be on Facebook anymore. Kind of hard to post things and interact if you’re 60 year old nana is posting Ultra MAGA or anti-Trump garbage. Twitter, it’s only a matter of time now that right winged conservatives and liberals found the website. Now everything you see on both websites is related to politics.

I grew up in a society infected by Marxist ideology. My father was very careful what I was taught in school and corrected the errors. Every time he had the chance, if we watched a film or found the right moment t, presented me a different angle of thisngs, and the partial truth in the news. What I found the most relevant for me is that he raised my awareness towards the importance of beauty. When you're surrounded with corruption, deceit, delinquency, your heart survives by noticing the beauty, and that keeps your spirit alive and healthy. Where beauty exists, resentment and revenge has no room.

I've had several young guys serve me at Subway, that got all upset when I wanted to guide them on how to make my sandwich, like it was some kind of existential mental abuse event. 🤷‍♂️

Exactly ! Lack of social skills and lacking ability to accept even constructive criticism or engage in debate without them feeling "attacked."

You’re not alone

Dude, we might be the same person.

A lot of people are under the effects of propaganda without realising.

This is the biggest struggle no one talks about. You can choose to distance yourself from social media. But the reality is that practically everyone around you is still going to be immersed in it. You won't be aware of the latest Tik Tok trend or Snapchat story. You'll find yourself left out of conversations. It sucks. I still prefer being off social media, but I wish those around me also realized that social media is a net negative.

Same here. It is just in the past few years that I have lost most of my friends who I have had for decades, and as if by chance, all of them apparently did social media which I don't do. Even those who weren't pushed to extremes, they seemed to value individual friendship much less.

I agree. I'm 23yo now and sometimes it is very hard to connect with others, espescially with younger people. I'm not into social media trends, many of them seem so childish and unnecessary to me. However, the hardest part is their lack of ability to talk and think, everyone is so sensitive and egocentric. Mental health issues have been normalized to the point where everyone seems to have one. If they don't have depression, anxiety, ED or something like that, they have an ADHD/ADD. Nothing wrong with having some of these issues mentioned, but we're not talking enough about the consequences of social media and smartphones in general.

@@urboturbo1249 Yeah that is so true, also nothing wrong with making older/more mature friends

@@hcentman Yes, that is true and usually it's easier to connect with older people.

@@urboturbo1249 I don’t know who this ED guy is, but apparently a lot of people don’t like him.

@@j-me6317 Sorry, I'm not very good at English as it isn't my first language. ED = eating disorder

As a utility it was transformative. As a connective network it's been a cataclysm.

Amen to that!

He says on social media

YT? Social media..🤔

@@markletts8802 how is it not

Screen time is fine, just not social media. Use parental control features to block installing them and block access in the browser. Kids who don't learn to use technology are at least as crippled as those addicted to it.

@@yeetdeets Kids don't "need" screen time. Its useful for them to learn how to use it when they're a little older, but a young child absolutely does not need screen time. I know kids who have essentially zero screen time, and they're much more functional in the real world than their smart phone using peers. Its not just about social media, either. Give a kid a real puzzle and give another kid a puzzle to do on a smart phone. The kid using the real world puzzle will end up much better off.

@@anizzutz1107 I didn't say they needed it, just that they will be crippled by being behind the curve on technology. Again, if you think games are too much, use parental control. You are probably right on that point too. Some games are great for learning actual skills. Eve Online or World of Warcraft for math, economy and finances. Europa Universalis for geopolitics, geography and history. But those are PC games. I don't know any good mobile games where you actually learn anything at all. But there is more utility to phones than games, puzzles and social media. Browser access is huge. If you are curious about something you can google it and read. Anything which encourages reading is obviously good. "Give a kid a real puzzle and give another kid a puzzle to do on a smart phone. The kid using the real world puzzle will end up much better off." Sounds super scientific, which paper are you citing? If it's the same puzzle I doubt there is a difference. But it's generally not the same puzzles.

@@yeetdeets learning technology is not that hard. And btw, social media also includes RU-vid. So I don’t know how you can give a child screen time without RU-vid. Good luck with that.

@@jenli142 There is learning technology like connecting bluetooth headphones to your phone and there is learning technology like programming a website. Constant exposure to the web will make picking up the latter way easier. Because you have a feel for how a good website is laid out, and you probably tried fixing successively harder problems you encountered as a consumer. I also don't think RU-vid is included in the cluster of problematic social media encounters Haidt referred to in the opening statement here. It's the pressure on *producing* media, and the scrutiny that brings, which causes mental health problems. The vast majority of people are only consuming, not producing, media on RU-vid. The societal problems he mentioned are probably in part caused by RU-vid too. As in the "deliberative democratic process". RU-vid does engage in censorship of some views and does create filter bubbles -but in this comment thread I think we have been mainly focused of the mental health aspects on an individual level. Either way, you for sure can block RU-vid with parental filters as well. I haven't tried it, but it seems very, very unlikely to not be possible.

you are not the only one, do not worry. we are all trapped.

The Only Breeds of Social Media That I Watch Are Just Social Medias Like RU-vid. Social Media By Itself Is Not Evil, It Is Toxic Individuals Who Make Social Media To Be Evil. Me Personally I Would Much Rather Watch RU-vid Than To Be Primarily Brainwashed By Brainwashing Television. I am 35 years old by the way, Black American male.

The massacre of the Rohingya in Myanmar was enabled largely by fucking Facebook.

Social Medias Like RU-vid For Instance Are Not Bad, It's The Toxic Use of Social Media That Makes Social Media Evil. Certain Individuals Should Just Not Be Users of Social Media At All, I Primarily Watch RU-vid Just To Keep Myself Informed At All Times, Me, Personally I Would Much Rather Watch RU-vid Than To Primarily Be Brainwashed By Brainwashing Television. I am 35 years old by the, Black American male.

That's my only option, as an expecting first-time father. My wife is 8 months pregnant with a little girl. My only option is to shield her from this garbage and prepare her for the day she has to strike out into a much worse world than the one I grew up in.

“Tell them ‘your dad’s a facist’”. Funniest thing I’ve read today. Fight Gen Z’s fire with fire. Excellent.

It's sadly amazing that one can grow up in a world that tells you to take care of your career and be happy with yourself before pursuing the other goals, then community and actual relationships don't exist once you get to that point.

@@derekhanson1688 well said

And where does the indentity politics ideology come from? Modern feminism.

@@fred6907 all feminism is toxic to the natural family structure and destroys the future of healthy society.

why you using the Internet to comment?

It's exponentializing

Remind your children that AT MINIMUM snippets on Tik-Tok, insta or whatever the hell else are literally the small snippets of someone's life. They also have mundane and regular shit they do OR they could be lying...

@One Culture Love Culture live on

Nice reference. 👌

not only just arabe bro the whole world turned out

FB and Twitter are paid by USA government to foment political violence overseas. They do that on purpose. Poland outlawed foreign ownership of Polish media. FB and Twitter are military contractors. It's not "entertainment." FB and Twitter are asocial media. It's ASOCIAL. It's just mislabeled. Our "Defense" Department is the mislabeled War Department. Americans say everything backwards. Coke does not "add life." Sugar water causes cancers.

The Arab Spring was a George Soros project, just like Ukraine in 2014.

LOL

Excellent observation!

I don't have anything on social media myself other than a Facebook and the only reason I have it was to track down old friends and talk to family members on messenger as am far away from them.....otherwise I don't post anything on it and was ridiculed here in US for not having Twitter,Instagram, snapchat,tik tok and all other trash social media sites...which have completely destroyed how people relate to each other.

I don't love the dichotomy you're setting up between 'nerds' and 'normies' but I can't deny what you're saying rings very true in my experience. I feel like being a computer dwelling teenager gave me a different relationship with and perspective on social media. Learning to ignore trolls on forums and how to moderate my intake of the darker shit on the internet when working exclusively from a desktop allowed me to keep that distance between 'irl' and 'interwebs shit', but with the ready access to social media via smart phones, people don't have that defense mechanism or separation.

I love this perapecrive lol

@@ChipChip101 He's definitely right but I think the dichotomy between nerds and normies is more so just people who had an interest in computers and technology even if it wasn't easily accessible vs people who couldn't care less unless something is setup for them and made easy. The people I know who were into computers way before social media are definitely not the people addicted to social media nowadays. It was the people into sports and everything that was very "anti nerd" that seem to live a terminally online life now.

@@ChipChip101 normies = normal people and nerds = autism. That simple

Sad but true

no

@@skiz8848 yeah i second that and raise you a fuck no

Jordan Peterson? Are you kidding? The guy was just hospitalized for a drug addiction and depression or something like that. I’ve never understood the attraction to the man

@@DanLetts97 His depression runs in the family, kinda hard to battle against genetics. He's back on track these days, he even criticized the medical field for putting him on highly addictive drugs in the first place. Can I ask why you are not a fan of the man? Except the recent mental issues obviously.

Agreed. One solution could be changing the algorithms. I see so many people getting caught in echo chambers and they end up thinking everyone thinks that way, which just reinforces their beliefs, when the algorithm keeps feeding them stuff they agree with. I have actively started trying to avoid getting into these chambers by looking at content I straight up disagree with.

I wouldn't say the video games turned out to be nothing. I believe they hurt my attention span for quite some time and really kept me from developing a career until age 25 or so.

@@theboombody that may be just you though , some people can handle things easier than others and are more resilient.

I will tell you the solution. Spend many hours reading the Bible. And pray in the name of Christ.

@@theboombody if you enjoy playing video games, there’s nothing wrong with that. Life isn’t all about work & career. 25 isn’t late either so I think you’re just fine. Keep gaming

This is a private sector leadership matter

It's pure evil. These people like software engineers studied psychology, they know exactly what they're doing and they will never take responsibility. You only have to look in Zuckerberg's dead fish eyes to see what I'm talking about.

Harming kids is the overt goal. Do you remember the drug addict "rock stars." That was to fuel narcotics sales. Americans don't get it. USA companies are scalp collectors. USA government and corporate execs are not "heroes." Not even a little.

Uh - did you see "Thank You for Smoking?" What about: cigarettes; alcohol; McDs and the level of sodium; Coke / Pepsi and the level of sugar; etc.

Technology can have terrible consequences. Much like the ability to refine food was seen as a great leap forward in providing cheap plentiful carbohydrates for a starving world, now we have a world of obesity from eating refined empty carbs and oils. Solving the problems of the past can have massive unintended consequences for the future without proper controls.

@@cattysplat They were also trying to improve shelf life, given that much food is lost due to spoilage in transport. Now we eat things that are terrible for us. But the way we explain it, well it is hard for a lot of people to understand. And we are emotional (no data and logic). "I will eat fast food because it tastes good" is an emotional response.

I just got the same dam thing from watching this idiot. However his statement I mention in my first comment is absolutely spot on (I was only part way through at that point)

Same, and I'm even older than you. It's like living on an alien planet, where I don't belong at all. Everyone is glued to their phone!

then make a facebook account and add the people you miss. Social media isn't all bad. It's a tool which can be good or bad depending how you use it.

nah it takes a lot to use a calculator or computer properly. Arithmetic is such a minor part of math, and I’ve spent the last 10 years coding and man theres still so much to learn

Totally agree. Also Shovels have taught children they no longer have to DIG. /s

@@bobthebuilderhecanbuildit My major was in math, and at some point you don't mess with arithmetic anymore. You do nothing but proofs and arithmetic helps very little there because everything is made up of variables.

@@theboombody Yeah most advanced math at the collegiate level is all in terms of variables. But, I think the point is that for younger children, if they develop an over-dependence on technology rather than doing the relatively harder job of working through the thought process manually, it deprives them of that ability to figure things out.

So now they get money from Subs and illegally selling our data? You're getting your data sold one way or the other as any fine when caught would be pennies compared to the profits. Oh yes, and if you link your Twitter to your RU-vid you'll get special badges which let everyone know how great you are for paying this subscription model meaning there is no selling of data or profit from it.

Who says selling data illegally would result in fines? My thinking as that if any social media company gets caught selling data illegally then the company owners and board members should get jail time, the company should be shutdown and all assets get confiscated. No more fines and small penalties, peoples personal data being mishandled is a serious offense and should be treated as such.

How would you enforce an age limit? I'm pretty sure most online services mandate users be at least 13 and get parental permission first. Age-restricting things is completely pointless because there's no way you can prove what birth date you enter isn't a lie, and if there were, that would be an even more egregious breach of privacy.

@@UnchainedEruption that’s what IDs are for. Internet providers could be forced by law to see someone’s identification and the same laws that prevent lawyers and doctors from using your data unethically would apply. But then again maybe we wouldn’t need that if so many idiots weren’t having kids and shoving a phone/computer screen into their kids’ faces while they’re getting baked out of their minds.

When my computer broke i spent around 3 weeks without the internet using an ancient laptop which i used only to listen to music and read pdfs. You get used to it, i really miss that time.

@One Culture Love Culture That’s the kind of life that is most natural and beneficial to mankind. In all honesty an agrarian, rural life is far too natural not to wish for.

What are "hard Right" ideologies? So far EVERY description of "Hard Right " anything is just the same tired far left actions being projected at a microscopic or totally made up minority of people that do not represent anyone in the rational majority. As of the last few weeks I am now seeing active openly sane left types such as Russel Brand, Jimmy Doore and Bill Marr plus thers like them now being called 'Far-Right" extremists too just for their pointing out the blatant hypocrisy and utter lack of self-awareness of the current far left.

@@thecustodian1023 that is funny to me as well. Far-right has become an over used slur in recent years that has now lost meaning. I mean, there ARE far right ideaologies (nazism, laissez-faire capitalism etc.) but if you think both Jimmy doors and Sargon are both basically in the same camp because they’ll criticize the left you’re moronic. In social justice circles libertarian ideology (a political viewpoint I don’t entirely agree with) is basically treated as white supremacy for reasons beyond comprehension

@@dylanbuchanan6511 Nazism is left though.

@@RacerX23rm No, it’s right

Dude your friend is neglecting his kids if they feel that way. Social media is just a way for him to pass parenting time into a phone

Social media doesn't make people suicidal. There's greater underlying issues there.

Im 41 and i had my first smartphone by the age of 30. However I used it as an mp3 player and gps device. Thank goodness i was already immune to the bullshit that social media is

The 'smuttiness' of women from this generation is worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. This death cult is done.

I’ve never thought about it that way but it makes so much sense. Why visual sexuality is so marketable and profitable and how easily it can be exploited to destroy young woman. In all honesty thinking like this is seen as prudish but generations ago it was just common sense. Oh how the times have changed

@@dylanbuchanan6511 what's funny is social media has led female ego to run riot and feed itself on its most primative drivers. Third wave feminists encourages it. They said "that's empowerment" "you go girl, your body your choice". They even said that when those girls evolved to OnlyFans which is in essence, self issued p0rn. But what's funny is this actually benefits men not women wholisticly. Take a young guy at say 20 and a young girl at 20. Both are studying to be doctors. She gets attention online showing off her ass, he doesn't. She starts an onlyfans account and starts bringing in money. He pays to subscribe to her onlyfans account and is losing small amounts on money for her content. She is now earning far more money as a whole from onlyfans as she would from being a doctor and quits medical school. Now fast forward 15 years. She no longer is wanted for her content, she is old. She has no education, her money is used up. She also has less social standing as a career p0rn star basically with her content all over the internet. He however, is a doctor. Her content despite costing him money when studying prevented him seeking a relationship with a girl who would have maybe ended in separation and financial ruin etc. Overall this scenario would mean in his work place there would be more educated men than educated women. This is how third wave feminism lost its way and abandoned women. Third wave feminism is so hungry for female subscribers it doesn't instil values of limitation, discipline, sacrifice etc. It instead says "do whatever you want, whenever you want for any impulse you have because that's your right as a woman" and then will complain at the consequences. In 15 years we will actually see a gap with women because of their choices.

@@j0fiz986 Some rights it is just foolish to exercise. Just because you CAN be an idiot doesn't mean you SHOULD.

I wonder if this trend of the `perfect` Instagram girl is contributing to the increase in trans identification. Are some teens looking at these popular influencers and thinking "I can never be that but I could be an excellent femboy."

“But by 2014 and 2015, it was intense.” Exactly the same thing with me.

@Eric Witt - I think that it has exacerbated number of casualties by shooters of mass shootings through highlighting reactions on social media even more. The correlation is there, take one study from Elon University on mass shootings. Cell phone footage to social media has done this also. This is all called the Media Contagion theory.

@Eric Witt - I also don’t believe that the entire country would be as divided on race, politics, nor religion if it weren’t for the dramatic uptick of the stream of information through the internet and more specifically social media.

I like and admire Jonathan Haidt. Peterson...forget it.

@@cjzanders5430 I think internet actually made things better. Social media made things worse.