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Big Technology Podcast

Why Facebook Will Keep Building For Kids — With Michael Sayman

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Management, Religion, Politics, Entrepreneurship, Business News, News, Investing, Marketing, News Commentary, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Business, Tech News, Philosophy, Government, Technology

4.7596 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Michael Sayman was 16 years old when Facebook recruited him to join the company. The overture arrived as he was sitting in math class, and the teacher promptly took away his iPad. Sayman joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss why and how Facebook builds products for kids and teens (something he has intimate knowledge of) and the reasons why it won't stop. You can find Sayman's new book, App Kid, here: https://amzn.to/3uNDazI Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From LinkedIn News, I'm Jesse Hempel, host of the Hello Monday podcast.

0:05.1

Start your week with the Hello Monday podcast.

0:08.1

We'll navigate career pivots.

0:10.1

We'll learn where happiness fits in.

0:11.9

Listen to Hello Monday with me, Jesse Hempel on the LinkedIn Podcast Network,

0:16.5

or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:20.2

I'm Tomer Cohen, LinkedIn's chief product officer.

0:23.6

If you're just as curious as I am about the way things are built, then tune into my podcast,

0:28.6

building one. I speak with some of the best product builders out there.

0:32.2

I've always been inspired by frustration.

0:34.8

It came back to my own personal pinpoint.

0:36.9

So we had to go out to farmers and convince them.

0:40.1

Following that curiosity is a superpower.

0:42.8

You have to be obsessed with the human condition.

0:45.4

Listen to Building One on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the big technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation, of the tech world and beyond.

1:09.4

And we have quite a show for you today. Facebook has been in the news

1:13.3

for its desire to recruit preteens and the harmful effects that some of its products,

1:19.4

including Instagram, has on teens, although that's been a bit of a subject of debate. Facebook's

1:25.0

put out some of its own data after the Wall Street Journal put out a few damning stories about what Facebook does.

1:31.1

Anyway, instead of speculating about this, why don't we bring in someone who's worked

1:35.5

on products inside Facebook that in particular are all about attracting teams?

1:41.5

And he's with us here today, Michael Saman.

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