Greg Lukianoff

I feel like...

i live in a neighborhood now on x where i mostly deal with people that i think are actually thoughtful even if i disagree with them um and and it's not such a bad experience i occasionally run into those other sort of what i call neighborhoods on x where it's just all canceling all nastiness and it's always kind of an unpleasant visit to those places i'm not saying the whole thing needs to be uh like like my experience but i do think that

The reason why people keep on coming back to it is it reveals raw aspects of humanity that sometimes we prefer to pretend don't exist.

The battle over information, too.

It can also stress you out to no end.

Remember to get off it sometimes.

The stats are pretty bad on mental health with young people, and I'm definitely in the camp of people who think that social media is part of that.

I understand the debate, but I'm pretty persuaded that one of the things that hasn't been great for mental health of people is just constantly being exposed.

Have you ever watched Fleabag?

It's an absolutely brilliant British show.

And it sets you up.

One of the reasons why people love it so much is it sets you up that you're watching a raunchy British sex in the city except the main character is the most promiscuous one.

It's like, okay.

And you kind of roll your eyes a little bit.

It's kind of funny and it's kind of cute and kind of spicy.

And then you realize that the person is actually kind of suffering and having a hard time.

And it gets deeper and deeper as the show goes on.

And she will do these incredible speeches about, tell me what to do.

Like, I know there's experts out there.

I know there's knowledge out there.