#3347: Why Social Media Has Become Real Life

Work On Your Game: Discipline, Structure, and Execution Under Pressure

Dre Baldwin

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4.9 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this episode, I’m breaking down how social media has literally become real life for a lot of people. I’ve touched on this in past episodes, like 1690 and 490, but today I’m going deeper on how and why this shift happened. Even if it ain’t true for you, you still need to understand it because it’ll help you make sense of how people think, talk, and act these days. Let’s get into it. Show Notes: [01:42]#1 Smartphones have replaced real life human engagement at a mass level. [05:51]#2 More people are evaluating, judging and making conclusions about others based on what they see or that they can find on social media without considering any other factors. [11:09]#3 The concept of catfishing [16:24]Recap Episode Mentioned: 490: Social Media Is The New TV Show: Don't Be Fooled By The Actors 1690: A Dirty Secret That Social Media Platforms Don’t Want You To Know Next Steps: 🎓 Work On Your Game University Get structured, get paid → WorkOnYourGameUniversity.com 📧 Dre’s Daily Emails (Free) Clarity. Strategy. Execution. → WorkOnMyGame.com 🤖 Chat with DreGPT AI that thinks like Dre → DreAllDay.com/AI 🎧 Free Audiobooks The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com/audible Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com/audible 📚 Claim Your Free Books The Third Day → ThirdDayBook.com Mirror Of Motivation → MirrorOfMotivation.com Sales Discipline System → SalesDisciplineBook.com Overseas Basketball Blueprint → BallOverseas.com How To Play As Well As You Practice → HoopHandbook.com/Free 💵 Support the Show CashApp → Cash.app/$DreBaldwin 📱 Connect with Dre Instagram → Instagram.com/DreBaldwin TikTok → TikTok.com/@WorkOnYourGame YouTube → YouTube.com/DreAllDay Twitter / X → X.com/DreAllDay Facebook → Facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity 🎙 All Episodes + Archive → WorkOnYourGamePodcast.com

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0:00.0	Social media is the first line of defense when it comes to finding out who somebody is, what they're about, and deciding what you're supposed to think about them.
0:06.5	Social media has basically become the new Google.
0:09.0	Stay old day.
0:12.0	Work on your game.
0:14.0	Work on your game.
0:15.0	Work on your game.
0:16.0	This is Drey Baldwin, and Work on your game is the system that turns discipline into dominance.
0:22.5	Today's topic is why social media has become real life.
0:27.1	I did an episode several years ago where I talked about how social media,
0:31.3	I talked about the social media real life connection, I guess, for lack of a better term.
0:38.6	I talked about social media a lot, actually, over the years.
0:42.2	And one very important episode was 1690.
0:45.1	Dirty Secret Social Media Platforms don't want you to know where I explain to you how this stuff actually works.
0:49.8	Episode 490, I told you, don't be full by the actors on social media.
0:53.8	And I talked about, of course, mentioned social media many times where it wasn't the main topic of the show.
1:00.4	But I talked about how real life and social media had pretty much swapped places for a lot of people.
1:06.7	And today, what I'm going to do is explain to you how social media has completely become real life for many people.
1:14.9	Even if it's not the case for you personally, you should still understand it because what is going to help you do is it will help you understand where people are coming from and why when you see people who are looking
1:27.5	at social media as if it is real life even though for you again as I said it may not be well
1:33.8	you know why it is for them then it'll help you understand why people move about the way that
1:37.4	they do why people think the way they think or talk the way that they talk I will explain
1:41.5	let's get into it point number number one. Today's topic,
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