{"id":254408,"date":"2017-11-10T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=254408"},"modified":"2017-11-13T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:38:41","slug":"facebook-founder-god-knows-what-social-media-does-to-our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/11\/10\/facebook-founder-god-knows-what-social-media-does-to-our-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Founder: God Knows What Social Media Does to Our Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know, I got to thinking about it. I say so much, the amount of content disseminated every hour on this program, it\u2019s even tough for me to remember it all. You know, I\u2019ll say something on X day, and two weeks later, a story will happen, and I will remember I predicted it, and I wonder how many of you in the audience remember. I\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n

\"\"I assume many of you do because I assume you listen very closely and very carefully, but, at the same time, I realize that it\u2019s impossible to remember everything anybody says. Ask your wife or husband about that. But we plod on, folks. We plug away. In fact, momentarily I\u2019m gonna take you back to 2013 and even sooner. A major point that I made about social media has now been echoed by social media founder Sean Parker.<\/p>\n

So when Sean Parker said what he said yesterday, I wondered how many people remember I predicted this very thing. I worried about the same thing he\u2019s admitting to now. I wonder how many did. And that\u2019s why I go back in time to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Sound Bites to remind you, because it\u2019s difficult to remember everything you hear, much less everything you read.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sean Parker. Do you know who Sean Parker is? Does his name ring a bell? Sean Parker, Napster. Napster was eventually shut down. It was a site where you could basically download any song you wanted without paying for it. This naturally upset the music industry. But Sean Parker became a hero. He was offering Millennials and young people things for nothing! They loved him. And he was instrumental in the founding of Facebook.<\/p>\n

Mark Zuckerberg sought out Sean Parker and his advice on various things, and Sean Parker was one of the founding members of Facebook, until he wasn\u2019t, \u2019til he decided to quit, for a host of reasons. And now Sean Parker, who has always had his hands and feet in innovative tech, has now started something new in his life about discovering, diagnosing cancer and autoimmune diseases as well. But he has now come out and has openly criticized Facebook and other social media, saying God knows what it is doing to our children. God knows.<\/p>\n

And he said: We knew that it was manipulative. We knew that people using it were vulnerable. We knew that we were devising little psychological ploys to keep people watching and reading and clicking and logging in. We knew exactly what we were doing to people to create this massive audience that never left us.<\/p>\n

And now he has seen the light and understands how destructive, potentially so, all of this is. And let\u2019s go audio sound bite number 2. Axios founder and executive editor Mike Allen talked to Sean Parker<\/a>. They\u2019re talking about the early days and development of social media, which, in Sean Parker\u2019s case, was Facebook.<\/p>\n

\"\"PARKER: How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible? And that means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever. It\u2019s a social validation feedback loop. You\u2019re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. The inventors, creators, you know, it\u2019s me, it\u2019s Mark, it\u2019s all of these people, understood this consciously, and we did it anyway. It literally changes your relationship with society, with each other, with — you know, it probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it\u2019s doing to our children\u2019s brains.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They knew what this was doing. By the way, what he\u2019s talking about here, the social validation feedback loop, the liking or commenting on a photo or a post and then exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology. They knew exactly what they were doing. What they were trading off or playing off of was that they know that everybody wants to be famous, that everybody wants to have meaning, and everybody wants to have a large audience. And they were giving people a way to pretend that they mattered, a way to pretend that they were important and big, a way to pretend that they had gobs and gobs of followers. They were exploiting people\u2019s weaknesses. This is what I have always feared from this stuff. So I want to go back to 2013, May, on this program and re-listen to just one of the many episodes in which I detailed my concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: One of the most dangerous things about all this is not just this quest for fame and the giving up of all privacy. Add to this that most kids are insecure, and then add another human characteristic, and it is this: The grass always looks greener. Everybody. I don\u2019t care who you are, you always think everybody else is happier. Everybody else is more normal. Everybody else doesn\u2019t have the problems you do. It\u2019s just a natural thing to think. A lot of people think this way. And when you start reading social media or watching television shows and you see depictions of people in certain ways, and you know that that doesn\u2019t in any way depict you? Then what does that make you feel like if you\u2019re not emotionally secure?<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve got this wild collection of insecurity and kids reading all this. In addition to the complex they could develop, because they think they\u2019re missing out on all this cool stuff, that creates its own set of problems. Either depression or a madcap desire to catch up and experience all these things that they think are cool, that people really aren\u2019t doing but they think they are. The sheer volume of all this stuff that they can expose themselves to could be overwhelming. I\u2019ve always had a bad feeling about it.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: I repeatedly warned — now, I realize I sit here and say “I warned.” Really all I was doing was expressing my concerns about it. And my concerns were for the effect all of this was gonna have on young people. Because everything is contained here that makes up — whatever your bad memories of high school are, for example, it\u2019s all there, every day you\u2019re reliving it on social media. The fact that everybody lies about how much fun they\u2019re having, everybody lies about the things they\u2019re doing, everybody lies about the places they\u2019ve been, everybody exaggerates if they don\u2019t lie.<\/p>\n

And so you\u2019re looking at people post things and they look like they\u2019re just having the greatest time, they\u2019ve got all these friends, and their lives seem to be full from the moment they get up \u2019til they go to bed, and you look at yours, and what are you? You\u2019re in your pajamas reading about all this. So you start lying because you\u2019re feeling insecure and inferior. So you look for signs to make it look like you\u2019ve got followers and you can be famous and you\u2019re just as cool and just as hip. But the problem is that most people, not everybody, but most people are lying about themselves on these sites anyway. Most people do not have the full morning-to-night lives that they are depicting.<\/p>\n

They want to. Everybody does. Everybody wants to have that life where you get to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, where money isn\u2019t an obstacle or a problem, and that everybody loves you and that you\u2019re a big object of attention. Well, on social media, everybody is free to create that very profile of themselves. But it\u2019s seldom anywhere near true of anybody.<\/p>\n

And so it creates this, as Sean Parker called it, he said this endless loop, a vulnerability in human psychology, little dopamine and little, you know, like or dislike or love photos or stories that you post. And it interferes with productivity, and he says God knows what it\u2019s doing to our children\u2019s brains.<\/p>\n

\"\"Now, he\u2019s not talking about the fact that people are not experiencing life outside the rooms where their computers or their devices are. That\u2019s a factor, too, but that\u2019s not what he means, I don\u2019t think, when he talks about God knows what it\u2019s doing to our children\u2019s brains. What he\u2019s talking about is all of these images that people are concocting about everybody else that makes them fall short when comparing themselves.<\/p>\n

You look at some profile on Facebook or a series of them, and there\u2019s pictures from a vacation spot in Hawaii, then there\u2019s Nicaragua, there\u2019s skiing wherever. “Man, this is so cool,” and you start lying on your own posts about things you\u2019re doing. It creates unhealthy desires, unhealthy psychological — and then you add the quest for fame into this, and I have thought this was a recipe for, if not disaster, for a serious problem down the road of people not knowing what reality is. And not being able to judge reality and falling for all kinds of lies and come-ons. And I think we are seeing these kind of things much more exaggerated than it\u2019s been in the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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