Dr. Robert Waldinger

And the problem with the scrolling, particularly scrolling other people's feeds about their lives, is that it leaves you feeling like you're missing out.

Yeah.

I mean, we post these kind of curated lives for each other.

You know, like I don't post the...

the photos in the mornings when I'm hungover or feeling depressed.

I post the photos when I'm on a vacation at a beautiful place.

But what it can do is it can give you the impression, oh, everybody else is having a great life except me.

I'm having a life with ups and downs.

And so I think that that problem of the digital world is one that we really need to get on top of.

We need to teach kids the difference between the real world and those curated lives.

Because otherwise they end up feeling like, oh my God, I'm inadequate compared to these people.

Yeah, it's true.

I know.

That's the problem, that the algorithms are scientifically based.

They're really good at figuring out what captures and holds attention.

They're working with the ways our brains react to stimuli, right?

And that's a problem.

I mean, that's begun to be uncovered.

There were a bunch of hearings in our Congress about that, about how Meta and some of these companies are doing this.

Um, what we haven't figured out yet is what to do about that because there's so much money involved.