4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Social media used to be fun. Remember those days? You'd chat with old friends, post a few photos and move on. Fast forward to today and social media is addictive, intrusive and even harmful. Jim Fournier, the mind behind a new social media platform, says it's even a threat to our democracy. Kim jumps into the murky world of social media, from data collection to insurance schemes. There’s a lot you have to watch out for, and we’ll shed light on the greatest threats in this episode.
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0:00.0 | Yeah, I've always said that, you know, whoever runs for president 20 years from now, we're going to be looking at their social media feeds going, okay, what was really that about? |
0:12.8 | We may have to declare social media amnesty for everybody. |
0:18.9 | That's Jim Fornier. He's a social media pioneer. |
0:22.1 | He wants to totally change the course of the Internet. |
0:25.5 | And in this, Kim Commando explains podcast. |
0:28.3 | We're going to be talking all about social media. |
0:30.8 | But let's start off with a little game show. |
0:33.3 | Love that. |
0:34.3 | Okay, it's a pop quiz. |
0:35.7 | Ready? |
0:36.4 | Answer this question. |
0:37.7 | What percentage of adults in America use social media? |
0:42.1 | Okay, think about it. |
0:43.4 | From Facebook and Twitter to Snapchat, Instagram, we're totally spoiled for choice. |
0:49.1 | There are more ways to showcase your life and get it out there than ever before. |
0:52.6 | I mean, back in the old days, |
0:54.9 | you showed off buying a fancy car or having the green salon in your neighborhood just by asking |
0:59.6 | your neighbors over. There was even a phrase for it, keeping up with Joneses. And we all want to fit in. |
1:04.9 | But here's the kicker. The feelings are still there. We still compare ourselves to others. We look |
1:09.9 | around to see how our friends and family and neighbors are doing. |
1:13.7 | And maybe if it's just in the back of our mind, we try to measure up. Well, in the old days, if you wanted to |
1:20.6 | shut down those feelings of jealousy, you could just close your curtain, right? You could block that fancy car out of your view. |
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