 So I've been following Jonathan Hyde's work for a while and he had a really good episode on the Joe Rogan experience. Last year I believe, maybe it was in January, don't quote me on this, but roughly last year. And it's been really important to me as of late because I'm a new father and I do have a daughter. And his research and his work is quite relevant for me. And even before it became I was looking into this research. And on one hand you can say it doesn't take a rocket scientist to kind of figure this out, but on the other hand it's sometimes it takes a sledgehammer to hit you in the face to realize oh shit there's something that we have to do because it's always in hindsight 2020 that we look in the past and say well that was kind of a bad thing to do or we fucked up. And what I'm talking about is the effects of social media. Not the internet, but social media. And primarily since 2010 when Facebook and Instagram well I'll say primarily Facebook when Facebook started really taking off until we see today. So since 2001 to 2010 suicide rates for males have been up 25%. Since 2001 to 2010 70% from females. So this is from the CDC fatal injury reports. Jonathan's research has and I'll dive into the data a little bit and I'm not a statistician per se but I just do want to start a conversation about this but Jonathan's work has been trying to link the fact of social media exposure at a very very young age is quite detrimental to the psyche and detrimental to the development of an individual. His data primarily is focusing on the fact that social media is way more detrimental to young girls than it is to boys because he states in his data boys will gravitate towards porn and video games girls as you understand evolutionary psychology and biology girls gravitate into group thinking. So what are the major reasons when it comes to negative effects of social media for girls? Well you have bullying, rumor spreading. So remember boys can duke it out. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a personal fighting grab a grab a beer afterwards even when I was young how many school yard scruffles I got into when I was in elementary school and it's fucking nothing we just went back to business as usual and one of the my blessings is I never grew up with social media. I was the last generation before social media thank god. Thanks for girls. So we have bullying and rumor spreading because girls they don't physically fight so it's gossiping. We have relationship issues so girls are always wondering of like the relationship within the tribe relationship among themselves and how they are viewed within their in-group and unrealistic views of other people's lives because with social media looking at all these other fake living fake lives unrealistic and so at a very very young age these girls are highly manipulated and they don't have the necessary mental capacity both physically remember the prefrontal lobe doesn't it takes until young adulthood to grow into into maturity but so these young girls are having detrimental effects and here is another study from Jonathan Hyde is hospital admissions for non-fatal self-harm once again age 15 to 19 since 2009 until 2015 up 62 percent and then from the age of 20 to 24 17 percent age 10 to 14 189 percent once again he states is not more it's not so much the millennials which i would say i was i think the last generation for i was the i was on the cutting block of just making the millennial camp so people who are exposed to social media after a certain age doesn't seem so much of this harm what he's saying is at a very young age so girls who are in you know when they're hitting the preteens to the teens that is a worst time possible to have your psyche bombarded 24 7 with fake artificial reality at the end of the day that's what it is it's fake artificial reality and this is a it's it that's what it is that it's fake artificial reality that manipulates on how they should think and how they should behave which creates a very very bad cognitive dissidence to how real reality is and this is why we're seeing a massive increase in issues around the world when it comes to young girls and social media i just want to pull up this twitter thread over here where he goes through a bunch of stuff and there's one thing in specific i want to pull up over here where we talk about with the gen z so they did a huge survey from 2012 remember what i said facebook was 2010 and the social medias with the 3g's 3g network really started propagating after 2012 because it took a while for it to get network effect and mass velocity so this is a very simple study that did they asked do you have a psychological disorder depression etc percentage of students indicating yes so women to men all gen z so younger demographics and you can see this chart over here of how much women to men and you can read his book coddling of the american mind but what i wanted to make this video about is we should really have an on an honest conversation of what we should be doing with social media and young girls now it's not realistic to say hey stop social media because at the end of day we know human psychology you can tell your young daughter oh well you can stop social media but if she goes to public school or her friends have it she's not going to stop it and even if you don't give her a phone her friends have phones they have tablets or computers and so we need to start thinking second order thinking third order thinking of how we can really create proper in group so having like-minded parents and like-minded family and community around us that actually respects the data and understands i would say this is common sense at least to me maybe i'm in the minority but it to me it's common sense that you have at the touch of a fingertip every known dopamine addiction serotonin addiction possible at a very young age of course that is going to skew and manipulate your psyche and manipulate the reality you're living in and we really need to figure out and come together as a community to talk about this how can we start creating like-minded individuals like-minded communities it's almost like the Amish had it right at the beginning you know i'm not in favor of them saying no technology i'm a firm believer in hybridization and having the best of best of everything right there's a there's a time and place for everything but they have something right where it's like they believe in and not just the Amish's other groups as well but they they believe most not all they they're not anti they're not 100 anti technology but most technologies are detrimental to the psyche detrimental to living proper as a human whatever you want to define as a human and so i want to quickly make this video about like we are in serious situations right now this is a massive massive problem that's been going on since 2012 and i think it's going to propagate even worse with stuff like augmented reality coming out google glasses which is augmented reality and social media becoming more main i would say mainstream social media becoming more interwoven within every facet of society like for example just with the the elections lately and just with everything that we're doing and especially with covid people are living 24 seven on social media and i would bet even if we would fast forward 10 years from now we even see more data that not just gen z's i know he wasn't focusing really on millennials but i would say even millennials are affected in fact i would say every age group is affected the less time do we spend on social media the better remember this is a tool social media is innate it's not a living sentient being and it's a double-edged sword so it's it depends on how you use it and just like just like smoking for the longest time to say you can smoke in hospitals and doctors for promoting it we look back you know like this is the worst stupidest thing we ever said and there's many things that we can look back and realize this was probably the dumbest suggestion of promoting anything that we could ever do what the fuck we were thinking and we would look back eventually and say social media is like the new sugar or social media is like the new smoking and hopefully this video can spark and start a conversation around this anyways i want to make this video it's a big concern for me i'm gonna be thinking about what i'm gonna do with my daughter i have some thoughts on it and leave a comment below this video i'd like to know your thoughts and like always if you haven't already subscribed to this channel and i will see you guys later peace out