Bill Nye on Social Media | StarTalk

I’ve got a good friend Bill Nye the
Science Guy he’s a friend of the show
he’s a friend of mine and let’s find out
what his take is on the impact of social
media hashtag Times Square afternoon
brilliant people love to look at other
people that’s why we have gossip
magazines and whole sections and
libraries called biography when it comes
to people looking at other people it’s
happening now
faster than ever and instead of just
words and images you can create a whole
persona for yourself online it’s like
that ancient Greek I narcissist who
drowned while looking at his own
reflection in a pool it started out with
just a couple guys tweeting about what
they had for breakfast but now it’s so
commonplace even the NASA rover will
tell you what it’s up to even how its
feeling this is the revolutionary tool
that’s overthrowing entire governments
it’s revolutionizing the world and
there’s no escaping it it’s everywhere I
got like 80 likes you know if Neil we’re
doing this there’d be be like a thousand
likes help me out people come on help me
out you got to catch up okay here we go