Francis Foster
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Podcast Appearances
Because when I was growing up, and this also happened 20 years ago because of the tabloid press,
more and more parents, understandably so, were concerned about safety.
And in particular, physical safety.
And it seemed like every summer there'd be some type of horrific crime where a young girl got kidnapped and they went missing.
Awful.
So people equated safety with physical safety.
And they think, well, if my daughter's upstairs on her phone, she's safe.
But that's not true.
And it's also as well that
The more time you spend online, the more it warps your ideas of the world.
Because in the real world, there are certain things that you cannot do.
I see a lot of young men doing this, in particular, a lot of young men in our space, speaking to people in ways which are, quite frankly, antagonistic, borderline disrespectful.
And there's part of me thinking, mate, if you talk like that to that bloke in real life, you get your head kicked in.
But if that's all you've known, which is going on social media and then being, to put it quite frankly, a prick, and getting away with it, and not even getting away with it, just getting engagement, then why wouldn't you do that?
Bring back head kicking.
It was really interesting you said this.
I was on a date with someone and she said, I was like, oh, well, what's dating like?
How are you finding it?
And she went, it's awful.
And I went, what do you mean?