today there’s over two and a half
billion people in the world with a
smartphone and that’s predicted to rise
to five billion by 2020 you know I think
these things are toxic I don’t
especially for kids it’s just this thing
it’s bad I mean they don’t look at
people when they talk to them and they
don’t build an empathy we seem to be
spending an increasing amount of time
looking down glued and obsessed with
this virtual home put the thing down
look up you missing stuff can you put it
down are you using it or is it using you
and where is it leading you and I’m not
telling you how I’m against the
establishment all that I’m telling you
at least ask yourselves what is the
long-term effect of too much information
we have age restrictions of smoking
gambling and alcohol and we have no age
restrictions on social media and cell
phone I got rid of my phone as my new
year’s resolution you don’t have a phone
anymore I got I put on iPads and then I
just work off of email so and it’s so
much less stress I don’t wake up in the
morning and have to answer 50 messages
of people asking for something’s just
like I’ll wake up you have an entire
generation that has access to an
addictive numbing chemical called
dopamine through social media and
cellphones as they go into the high
stress
why is this important taking myself off
social media is a wake-up call to anyone
and everyone who follows me almost every
alcoholic discovered alcohol when they
were teenagers when we’re very very
young the only approval we need is the
approval of our parents and as we go to
adolescence we make this transition
where we now need the approval of our
peers put yourself in in your own mind
15 years ago and present yourself the
deal that the phone represents the check
this phone out right this phone is going
to allow you to navigate in a place
you’ve never been it’s going to connect
you with all sorts of people who share
your interests you’re going to be able
to say a sentence that you think is
clever and suddenly hundreds of
thousands of people are going to be able
to react to it I mean all sorts of
marvelous things and then here’s the
downside okay you’re gonna be hooked
into mega corporations that are gonna
study your psychology and they are going
to compete in order to keep you paying
attention to their site and they’re
gonna become so sophisticated that
you’re gonna lose control over your own
mind you are going to become addicted to
it in the way that you might become
addicted to nicotine you are going to
surveil yourself you’re gonna surveil
yourself and your only protection from
surveilling yourself are going to be
end-user license agreements that you’re
not going to be legally sophisticated
enough to understand and so you’re gonna
be at the mercy of whoever has access to
your phone camera your metadata your you
know all of these things so the point is
if you said this to you 15 years ago
you’d know to be afraid
some people quite by accident discover
alcohol and numbing effects of dopamine
to help them cope with the stresses and
anxieties of adolescents
unfortunately that becomes hardwired in
their brains and for the rest of their
lives when they suffer significant
stress they will not turn into a person
they will turn to the bottle social
stress financial stress career stress
that’s pretty much the primary reasons
why an alcoholic drinks right what’s
happening is because we’re out allowing
unfettered access to these dopamine
producing devices and media basically
it’s becoming hardwired and what we’re
seeing is as they grow older they to
many kids don’t know how to form deep
meaningful relationships their words not
mine they will admit that many of their
friendships are superficial they will
admit that their friends that they don’t
count on their friends they don’t rely
on their friends they have fun with
their friends but they also know that
their friends will cancel of them that
something better comes along deep
meaningful relationships are not there
because they never practice the skill
set and worse they don’t have the coping
mechanisms to deal with stress so when
significant stress starts to show up in
their lives they’re not turning to a
person they’re turning to a device
they’re turning to social media they’re
turning to these things which offer
temporary relief we know the science is
clear we know that people who spend more
time on Facebook so far higher rates of
depression than people spend less time
on Facebook write these things balanced
alcohol is not bad too much alcohol is
bad gambling is fun too much gambling is
dangerous right there’s nothing wrong
with social media and cell phones it’s
the imbalance right if you’re sitting at
dinner with your friends and you’re
texting somebody who’s not there that’s
a problem that’s an addiction if you’re
sitting in a meeting with people you’re
supposed to be listening to and speaking
and you put your phone on the table face
up or face down I don’t care
that sends a subconscious message to the
room that you’re not just just not that
important to me right right that’s what
happens and the fact that you cannot put
it away is because you are
right if you wake up and you check your
phone before you say good morning to
your girlfriend boyfriend or spouse you
have an addiction and like all addiction
in time it’ll destroy relationships
it’ll cost time and it’ll cost money and will make your life worse
billion people in the world with a
smartphone and that’s predicted to rise
to five billion by 2020 you know I think
these things are toxic I don’t
especially for kids it’s just this thing
it’s bad I mean they don’t look at
people when they talk to them and they
don’t build an empathy we seem to be
spending an increasing amount of time
looking down glued and obsessed with
this virtual home put the thing down
look up you missing stuff can you put it
down are you using it or is it using you
and where is it leading you and I’m not
telling you how I’m against the
establishment all that I’m telling you
at least ask yourselves what is the
long-term effect of too much information
we have age restrictions of smoking
gambling and alcohol and we have no age
restrictions on social media and cell
phone I got rid of my phone as my new
year’s resolution you don’t have a phone
anymore I got I put on iPads and then I
just work off of email so and it’s so
much less stress I don’t wake up in the
morning and have to answer 50 messages
of people asking for something’s just
like I’ll wake up you have an entire
generation that has access to an
addictive numbing chemical called
dopamine through social media and
cellphones as they go into the high
stress
why is this important taking myself off
social media is a wake-up call to anyone
and everyone who follows me almost every
alcoholic discovered alcohol when they
were teenagers when we’re very very
young the only approval we need is the
approval of our parents and as we go to
adolescence we make this transition
where we now need the approval of our
peers put yourself in in your own mind
15 years ago and present yourself the
deal that the phone represents the check
this phone out right this phone is going
to allow you to navigate in a place
you’ve never been it’s going to connect
you with all sorts of people who share
your interests you’re going to be able
to say a sentence that you think is
clever and suddenly hundreds of
thousands of people are going to be able
to react to it I mean all sorts of
marvelous things and then here’s the
downside okay you’re gonna be hooked
into mega corporations that are gonna
study your psychology and they are going
to compete in order to keep you paying
attention to their site and they’re
gonna become so sophisticated that
you’re gonna lose control over your own
mind you are going to become addicted to
it in the way that you might become
addicted to nicotine you are going to
surveil yourself you’re gonna surveil
yourself and your only protection from
surveilling yourself are going to be
end-user license agreements that you’re
not going to be legally sophisticated
enough to understand and so you’re gonna
be at the mercy of whoever has access to
your phone camera your metadata your you
know all of these things so the point is
if you said this to you 15 years ago
you’d know to be afraid
some people quite by accident discover
alcohol and numbing effects of dopamine
to help them cope with the stresses and
anxieties of adolescents
unfortunately that becomes hardwired in
their brains and for the rest of their
lives when they suffer significant
stress they will not turn into a person
they will turn to the bottle social
stress financial stress career stress
that’s pretty much the primary reasons
why an alcoholic drinks right what’s
happening is because we’re out allowing
unfettered access to these dopamine
producing devices and media basically
it’s becoming hardwired and what we’re
seeing is as they grow older they to
many kids don’t know how to form deep
meaningful relationships their words not
mine they will admit that many of their
friendships are superficial they will
admit that their friends that they don’t
count on their friends they don’t rely
on their friends they have fun with
their friends but they also know that
their friends will cancel of them that
something better comes along deep
meaningful relationships are not there
because they never practice the skill
set and worse they don’t have the coping
mechanisms to deal with stress so when
significant stress starts to show up in
their lives they’re not turning to a
person they’re turning to a device
they’re turning to social media they’re
turning to these things which offer
temporary relief we know the science is
clear we know that people who spend more
time on Facebook so far higher rates of
depression than people spend less time
on Facebook write these things balanced
alcohol is not bad too much alcohol is
bad gambling is fun too much gambling is
dangerous right there’s nothing wrong
with social media and cell phones it’s
the imbalance right if you’re sitting at
dinner with your friends and you’re
texting somebody who’s not there that’s
a problem that’s an addiction if you’re
sitting in a meeting with people you’re
supposed to be listening to and speaking
and you put your phone on the table face
up or face down I don’t care
that sends a subconscious message to the
room that you’re not just just not that
important to me right right that’s what
happens and the fact that you cannot put
it away is because you are
right if you wake up and you check your
phone before you say good morning to
your girlfriend boyfriend or spouse you
have an addiction and like all addiction
in time it’ll destroy relationships
it’ll cost time and it’ll cost money and will make your life worse
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