Ben Shapiro’s 5 Rules for Social Media
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 2:20.3 | All right, folks, it's time for some social media rules. I've been asked for the rules that I use in addressing our social media landscape. So here we go. Rule number one, use social media sparingly. I know it's incredibly addictive. In fact, it is designed to be addictive. That is the whole purpose of social media. So you think that you're looking at it because there's vital information happening every single second. But you're actually looking at it because it is giving you a dopamine hit every time you scroll. And then you look up at the end of the day and you have spent six hours on your phone. And you know how many times you took that phone out of your pocket to look at social media during the day? There's probably multiple times every single hour. Social media, you have to actually control how much you use it. And that just doesn't mean how much you post. It means how much you're looking at others posting because nothing that important is going on. |
| 3:08.3 | If it were really that important, I promise you other people would be talking about it. |
| 3:11.6 | Which brings us to rule number two, don't mistake social media trends for real life. |
| 3:16.9 | You do not have to do this. |
| 3:18.2 | You look at X and you see that your name is trending and you start to freak out. |
| 3:23.0 | So many people are thinking about you and talking about you. It's it's weird what am i supposed to do about it and then you walk outside you put down your phone and you realize no one cares nobody cares no one has even heard of this thing that's happening to you i can't tell you the number of times this happened in my life and it ruins your day you will be trending |
| 3:40.8 | you'll be thinking oh my gosh my day is wrecked you let it get to you one time this happened to me over the sabbath and i was unable to pick up my phone so i did not know that i had trended at all i came off of the sabbath it was saturday night and i had a text from my producer saying you trended today and i said oh really about what and it was something stupid't feel bad at all because I wasn't trending anymore. So all I had to do was recognize that social media trends are not real life. And by the way, politically, they're not real life either. This is why, for example, online, the Jews, very, very, very unpopular. But if you look at the polls, people in America, not anti-Semitic. It's why if you look online, President Trump's action in Iran, |
| 4:17.0 | 95-5 against, and then you go into the real world, majority four, particularly among Republicans. |
| 4:22.0 | Social media trends are not real. |
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