Is Facebook Evil?
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 98 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So, Burdo, serious question here, is Facebook and social media in general evil? |
| 0:05.8 | Is it all evil for humans and society and us? |
| 0:09.4 | What do you think? |
| 0:10.3 | I don't think that's accurate, no. |
| 0:12.3 | I don't think it's all evil. So let's look into that. What do you say? Let's do it. This is the psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host Dr Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor. Who are you, Berto. |
| 0:23.3 | My name is Uberto Castagna, |
| 0:24.8 | and I make lids for jars. |
| 0:27.0 | So the reason why we're talking about this |
| 0:29.1 | is because there's a new Netflix documentary |
| 0:31.2 | it came out this month or last month called the |
| 0:34.4 | social dilemma and in this documentary it's it's interesting because they have some |
| 0:41.2 | interesting storytelling elements they They have actual like a they follow a family essentially as |
| 0:48.2 | social media affects them in some very dire ways and they also interview a lot of people who used to work in |
| 0:59.2 | tech you know people who used to be like the CEO of Pinterest for example or the guy who was |
| 1:07.2 | hired by Facebook to try to increase engagement. |
| 1:13.6 | At the beginning of that model of making money on the internet, |
| 1:19.2 | they were the originators, and a lot of them have since left those fields and now are speaking out |
| 1:27.1 | against the evil of social media. What do you think overall as a documentary would you do you like it? I didn't love it. I'll go further I'll say I felt it was ironically |
| 1:41.0 | manipulative. |
| 1:42.8 | Yeah, I thought the exact same thing. |
| 1:44.7 | So the central premise, and I think the documentary |
| 1:49.1 | is a good social good, by the way. |
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