Name: Theo Asks Mark Zuckerberg If Social Media is Bad For Us
Uploaded: 2025-04-30T13:15:01.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Asks Mark Zuckerberg If Social Media is Bad For Us' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Asks Mark Zuckerberg If Social Media is Bad For Us' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-04-30. Transcript available.

do you think um is social media bad i mean i don't think so
yeah maybe that's not the right term um like at a certain point does
yeah like how much you know there's been like studies on where it's like doom
scrolling and
stuff like that can lead to depression that sort of thing like do you yeah what
do you think about
that like yeah so so look i mean we obviously study this stuff pretty carefully
um you guys do yeah i
mean we study it we work with academics to study it um you know as you can
imagine there's a lot of
like media coverage of this stuff that's like very um sensationalist that tries
to like have a skewed
point of view right my understanding of the current state of the research is
that there isn't kind of
a conclusive um finding that this is negative for people's well-being so i
think that that's and in
general you know some of the stuff that ends up being positive for people is is
building relationships
so there's sort of the media part of social media and there's the social part
of social media i think
the the interacting with people um to the extent that that's helping you build
good relationships
i mean friendships and good relationships is one of the things that correlates
the most strongly with
positive well-being and like feeling good about your life and all that the
media stuff i mean i think
that's more entertaining you know i think you can you know people want things
that are fun right yeah
people want to be entertained for sure necessarily like correlate with good
well-being or bad well-being
but i guess like the way that i think about this stuff is that it's um our
modern online environment
is um it it's just an environment in which we live in a way that has pros and
cons like whether you live
in a city or a rural place right it's like okay like some people may prefer
living in a city there's
like things that are good about a city there are things that are bad about a
city okay like the fact
that we went from being primarily offline as a society to now like this kind of
hybrid kind of
physical and digital reality there's some things that are better about that
some things that are
that are maybe less good um it's not that every single thing improves at each
step along the way but
i think overall um it's it's um kind of the overall effect is significant
improvement and i i just
don't see a way that people would want to like go back to not having services
where they can
get the content that they're interested in and where stuff is personalized to
them and where they can
communicate with the people who they want and don't need to like be constrained
to just the people who
are physically around them it's just i mean like we're just you know we're not
going back to that
and if you look throughout history it's like when people like first built
cities you know there were
all these um there's a lot of kind of nostalgia for the the simpler life and
things like that it's like
okay yeah and and yeah sure maybe maybe cities aren't better in every single
way and some people
might prefer to kind of only go sometimes or whatever but but i i just think it's
like we're
we're building more and more capabilities as society and i think that that's
sort of i just think about
this stuff more as like an environment in which we live we talked about this a
little bit with um
with the fighting stuff early on but for me it's always just been important
that it's like i don't
just want to like be a person who like sits and works all the time i think like
you know it's we're
not like meant to just sit at a desk all day long and one day oreo will learn
that um but um
and i think like a lot of life is like you move around you like you know it's
like we're like meant
to be active and do stuff and i think that that's a big part of it i try to
like it's important to me
that you know the kids get that too and the kids are very active um do your
kids have a lot of um
like screen time like how much screen time do you allow your kids yeah um it's
different for the
different ones we don't just like let them do whatever but i actually like want
them to be
fluent with this stuff and that kind of like we talked about earlier um you
know i want them to
learn how to code how to use technology um i think it's important because a lot
of socialization you
know obviously like happens online at this point like people need to get used
to the norms and stuff
around that so i mean they're not on they're still too young to be using like
social media but uh but
they have messenger kids you know we we um make it so that they can video chat
and and chat with
their friends and you know we'll obviously monitor to make sure that they're um
that they're just
connecting with the people who who we think that they should but like i think
it's actually good i
think people need to kind of grow up um i don't need to is strong but i i think
is um i think it's good
if you have an engaged parent and and they um and and as a child you learn up
you you kind of grow up
um learning how to use a bunch of this stuff so i think that that's and that's
all good i want the
kids um to the extent that they're interested in it to learn how to code learn
how to create stuff
whether it's in like horizon or vr tools or they play you know roblox and minecraft
and stuff like
that i think that's good and then you know there's a lot of educational study
type tools that um you
know when um when our daughter's studying for her competitions or whatever she
can she can kind of
make a lot of progress on that so i think that that stuff is good but we're not
just like letting them
um just kind of sit and watch stuff all day long so you think unless you're on
a plane then you do
whatever you need to do to get through that flight yeah thank you dude somebody
else needs to say that
yeah no it's um where's the i want to when do we come out with that pacifier
that really
shuts these kids down for a couple hours i'm not saying it has to be anything
crazy nothing illegal but
we need we need a high voltage pacifier back in society mark oh man um give us
something brother
yeah these kids are screaming