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 Title: Daily Dose of English 192 - Social Media
Caption: [Music] hey everyone my name is Ben and you&#39;re listening to a daily dose of English this is a short simple podcast that you can listen to every day to improve your English you can find the transcripts for all episodes and more on Ben&#39;s language.com I&#39;m glad you can make it today in this episode we&#39;re going to be talking about social media which is a very big topic and I&#39;m not going to be able to really cover it in 10 minutes or give any good insights uh so I just want to talk a bit about my experience with it and how I use it and that sort of thing um I think I&#39;ve talked about something similar before um but my it&#39;s it&#39;s hard to remember what I&#39;ve done at this point over 192 episodes um but in my mind there&#39;s a couple different kinds of of media online there&#39;s like content media and then there&#39;s social media social media is things like Facebook Instagram even Twitter where the uh the goal is to interact like the main purpose is to interact with other users and and like the other people there like that social part um something like YouTube or like live streaming like twitch I don&#39;t see as a social media even though arguably it it could be since the purpose is not to interact with somebody necessarily but to uh engage with something that somebody else has made or is making there&#39;s a slightly different um vibe that I get from them even though they&#39;re pretty similar there&#39;s also other things that are hard that I don&#39;t know exactly how they Define um in there so something like Discord for example fits a lot of the same ideas as um other social media things however it&#39;s it&#39;s for organized in a way that feels very different from uh like what I call the mainstream social media um and so when I talk about social media I I&#39;m not specifically talking about things like YouTube twitch Tik Tok Discord I&#39;m I mean like the the social networking apps Twitter uh Facebook Instagram that sort of thing those those are the big ones um but and everybody could have a different definition and if you do have a different definition or you see it differently I&#39;m very curious to hear what your thoughts are um um this sort of social media like that uh the whatever that Network effect social media thing I pretty much don&#39;t use at all I&#39;ve never been a person to use uh Facebook Instagram whatever Snapchat things like that have just never worked for me i&#39; I&#39;ve tried sometimes like I technically have an account on um some some platforms but usually I made them when somebody spe specific asked me to and then I just couldn&#39;t get into it right so like the example of Snapchat is that that was really big um when I was in high school um and everybody would talk on Snapchat and at one point somebody asked me he like oh do you have a Snapchat you should make one it&#39;s like oh no I don&#39;t and I I like all right I&#39;ll try I guess I made one and I I didn&#39;t ever use it like it just wasn&#39;t it didn&#39;t make sense to me I didn&#39;t like how it wasn&#39;t logical like it it&#39;s like you&#39;re supposed to if you want to just message somebody just message them that you have a text service just use that right um and so that&#39;s that&#39;s what happened with a lot of them they just don&#39;t really make sense to me I don&#39;t engage with them um and they don&#39;t fit with with the way that I like to live I guess you could call that morals or whatever it is because I also see a lot of uh or I feel a lot of positive effects from not engaging with social media in my life because I really don&#39;t feel like I&#39;m missing anything um the most the one that I did actually use for quite a while was Reddit um there was probably a full year or two where I was I was using Reddit daily I was very frequent I was reading a lot of things watching a lot of things whatever it is using Reddit often um and I that that&#39;s really where I realized like sort of why I don&#39;t like these sorts of things is why they feel very um in a ways a lot of ways addictive they feel like they&#39;re stealing um attention right they&#39;re they&#39;re a huge time waste and time sync for something that does not benefit me at all and when I eventually completely just stopped with Reddit I was I was realizing that I was wasting time that I didn&#39;t want to be wasting and I was not getting anything out of it so I just completely stopped using Reddit and that change was only positive for my life and that is really where I&#39;m I realize that or I realize that social media for me is purely negative um there are some useful tools in there but like comp it&#39;s it&#39;s really hard to I don&#39;t know it&#39;s like looking at the ingredients on um ice cream and being like Oh there&#39;s a little bit of that in there that means it&#39;s a good food um because that&#39;s a good thing and that good thing is in all of these other bad things so that&#39;s good right that logic obviously doesn&#39;t hold up right if you if there&#39;s a couple of good things within um a large bad thing that doesn&#39;t make the bad thing than good right and so that&#39;s how like I see all this cuz the the things of like being connected nice messaging um sharing images that sort of thing is positive right there are good things in there but the effect that it creates and the way that it it gets people to waste so much time I think is very negative um and I think a really good example of that is in uh older people using Facebook because a lot of older people are very very very into Facebook and so many different things on Facebook and even though that that&#39;s not something that they grew up with and it can become to gets to a point where it&#39;s almost a a problem for their their whatever functioning or um their free time not it&#39;s it&#39;s just it becomes a very strange relationship with a lot of people and Facebook despite the possibility of Facebook being just positive right staying in contact with friends uh getting updates things like that can be a positive thing but it definitely spirals out of control for many many people um and actually the same goes for non-social media things so what I what I called content media which is things like YouTube Tik Tok um twitch that sort of thing I also definitely see negative effects in those but I choose to engage with uh YouTube and some twitch I&#39;ve compl I I do not want to touch Tik Tok that any all the short form content really seems to be um a problem I don&#39;t think there&#39;s any definitive answer or data or anything saying that it is bad for you necessarily but like the amount of people people that I know that will just spend 2 to 3 hours on Tik Tok and be like where did the time go makes me just feel like there&#39;s something wrong it&#39;s like I&#39;m not saying that it is exactly a bad thing but that to me sets off alarm Bells it&#39;s like okay if people are like losing hours and it&#39;s they&#39;re feeling worse after doing it that seems like a problem um like it&#39;s just I just don&#39;t want to touch it I I want to stay away from it um I have a similar I have had similar issues with YouTube in the past I think I&#39;ve talked about it before um like watching essentially too much or not being able to stop um but I&#39;m aware of that I&#39;ve actually gotten a lot better with it I&#39;ve been more specific and um purposeful with the way that I engage with it and that&#39;s been very very helpful for me um and yeah and like that&#39;s it sort of has to do with a lot of things where a little bit is fine but um too much is not good um and so I think that&#39;s where a lot of these sit um but yeah social media specifically the ones about social stuff I&#39;ve just never been for me they don&#39;t really make sense I don&#39;t like them I don&#39;t want to spend time on them i&#39; much rather spend time on um other projects or like watching something that&#39;s hundreds of hours went into right like a movie or a TV show instead of something that&#39;s um really not I want to say low quality but of a different quality however I will say that um there is a lot of comedy in short form stuff um but what I do is I let other people find the funny ones compile them into videos and then watch those um so like meme compilations or whatever are fun I quite enjoy them um but they are but I I&#39;m not going to spend the time just sifting through literally thousand of Tik toks to find one funny one like I have seen I&#39;m I&#39;m going a little bit off on the tangent here but I&#39;ve I&#39;ve known a couple of people that have been very into to watching Tik toks and they will sometimes want to show me them and a couple times uh they&#39;ll be like scrolling and I they they just scroll past things without I I&#39;m not even able to visually process what I&#39;m seeing and often it&#39;s like okay I&#39;m I&#39;m done with this now I say to them and they go okay just one more funny one one more funny one and it takes a long time to find one that is even a little bit funny like the percentage of good Tik toks out there is so incredibly low um which is really surprising for me like I it really feels like you&#39;re looking at garbage um and even though there are some good ones in there but anyways I&#39;m going off on a tangent I don&#39;t need to keep going with this this has been a 10-minute episode um crazy how fast the time go sometimes but I hope that you I don&#39;t know enjoyed this if you did leave a comment down below with your thoughts I&#39;m definitely curious on um how you use social media how you see it um what your definition is and all that stuff you know um but that&#39;s at all that&#39;s all that that&#39;s what that&#39;s everything from me I&#39;ll see you again tomorrow have a good one bye
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