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Welcome to Tech Stuff. I'm Osvaloshan here with Caraprice.

Oz, has social media ever made you feel superstitious or paranoid?

Yeah, I mean, I've, I've, I've dipped my toe into the world of social media.

Of Instagram.

Getting push notifications about being bald and about being depressed.

I know I'm bald. Am I depressed too?

That makes me feel a bit paranoid that the algorithm may know more about me than I know about myself.

I similarly get fed things that I've searched for that I don't want to know about myself.

Why do you ask?

Well, I feel like this is kind of a universal state, this tech-induced paranoia.

Like, most people can relate to it.

Nobody would be like, yeah, you know, I just think social media is just such a fun, clear place to rest my head.

And I actually spoke about this feeling with Amanda Hess, who is a writer at large for the New York Times covering technology and internet culture.

She actually, she wrote a fascinating column in the last couple of weeks, actually, about

somebody who live streamed their birth on Twitch.

So I'm very interested in her take and general on the story she finds.

She's super smart.

And I would definitely check out her book if you haven't checked it out. It's called

Second Life, having a child in the digital age. And she said that even though she's normally really

rational, getting pregnant changed her relationship to technology and kind of fed into a lot of

superstitious feelings that I think most women feel when pregnant.

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