Why We Care What Other People Think & How Social Media is Shaping Language
Something You Should Know
Mike Carruthers | OmniCastMedia
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You know, a lot of the guests who appear on something you should know have their own TED Talk. |
| 0:05.4 | And did you know that TED has a podcast that drops a new TED Talk every day? |
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| 0:21.9 | TED Talks daily. You'll hear hot takes and deep dives from the world's leading thinkers, and learn |
| 0:28.6 | answers to questions like, how do I stop caring about what other people think, or is my partner |
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| 0:42.1 | Listen to TED Talks Daily wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:48.2 | Today on something you should know, why women usually need reading glasses sooner than men. |
| 0:54.8 | Then, great advice for people pleasers who are always worried about what others think. |
| 1:00.6 | Rather than feeding into the urgency that people pleasing, uh-oh, someone's mad at me, so I'm |
| 1:06.8 | going to text them, are we okay? Did I do something wrong? |
| 1:09.9 | Putting the phone down, just slowing down that process is communicating to the body. |
| 1:15.3 | I'm not in danger. |
| 1:17.1 | Then the right way to hang a roll of toilet paper and how algorithms in social media are changing |
| 1:23.3 | our language and the change seems to start in middle school. Children particularly like adopting |
| 1:30.1 | new words because it's a way to build their own identity and differentiate themselves from adults. |
| 1:34.9 | I don't need to adopt the word skibbity right now because I don't need to prove anything about |
| 1:39.0 | who I am as a person, but it might make a difference in a middle school. All this today on Something You Should Know. |
| 1:47.2 | Hi there, Fred Greenhald here, |
| 1:49.0 | director of audio dramas like DC high-volume Batman and Star Trek Khan. |
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