How to preserve your private life in the age of social media | Bryce Dallas Howard

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Growing up in the public eye, multi-hyphenate creator Bryce Dallas Howard experienced the familiar pressure to share her life with the world on social media. But with her mother's steadfast guidance, Howard learned to set personal boundaries and savor the beauty of private moments. In this personal talk, she draws on three generations of family wisdom to remind us that "a private life makes a public life worth living." After the talk, TED Tech host Sherrell Dorsey dives into some of the dangers of oversharing on social media. If you'd like to hear more ideas on how tech is transforming humanity, follow TED Tech wherever you're listening to this.

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0:00.0	Today, we thought you'd enjoy listening to an episode from another podcast in the Ted
0:16.4	Audio Collective, Ted Tech.
0:19.6	Each week, host Cheryl Dorsey explores the ways technology is changing the way we work
0:24.4	and live.
0:25.9	If you like what you hear, make sure to subscribe to Ted Tech or ever you get your podcasts.
0:39.9	It used to be that celebrities, movie stars, musicians, and politicians were the only types
0:45.4	of people in the world subject to constant scrutiny.
0:49.5	But then technology advanced.
0:51.8	The personal cell phone was adopted.
0:54.4	The first camera phone hit the market in 1999, and eventually capturing one's own daily
1:00.9	experiences became a habit of the crowd, moving past the gates of media experts and into
1:06.8	the hands of the populace.
1:09.9	We took it and ran, improving the cell phone experience, evolving what we had once used
1:15.6	to call our mother to let her know we'd be home late for dinner, to a full fledged computer
1:21.2	used by 78% of the global population in 2020.
1:26.2	That's nearly 8 billion people with a smartphone.
1:29.6	Unwittingly, our desire to increase how and when we communicate quickly morphed into something
1:36.9	we didn't see coming.
1:39.2	Public curation of our personal lives for the sake of 24-7 engagement.
1:45.9	While there are great things to note about this constant access to each other, I from
1:50.2	one love a good TikTok cooking tutorial, it's impossible to speak of the benefits without
1:55.4	acknowledging the dark side of constant access to seemingly perfect images and videos of
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