Michael Sun

And it has 2 million members, making it one of the biggest Facebook groups, right?

Now is the peak time of absolute chaos.

We are living in a time when everyone, even your aunt's friend who keeps sending you Minion memes, has left Facebook, which means the only people left in these groups are truly the most desperate, the most committed, the most insane, the people who have thrown all caution to the wind and said, who cares to any given conventions of social media?

These spaces are completely shielded from the frenetic, demanding nature of online life today.

You can choose whether to post or not, whether to engage or not, whether to take things further or not.

You most likely won't know anyone else in these groups.

There are hardly any celebrities either in these groups.

No one's in it to be seen.

Being in these groups is truly like experiencing the last, almost, utopia online.

Now, there is also an easier solution.

But you need to bear with me, okay, because I know it sounds super dumb.

The solution is to talk to your friends.

And I promise I don't mean this in a kind of, get off your phones, we live in a society kind of way, okay, I promise.

I mean talking to your friends and asking them what they're listening to, what they're consuming, what they've come across on their feeds.

The worst thing about the algorithm is that it's so tailored to us that it can feel inescapable.

But the best thing about the algorithm is that it's so tailored to us that no two feeds are the same.

Your friend is listening to a song that you would have never encountered.

Your parents are on a side of YouTube that you didn't even know existed.

Your aunt's friend is still sending you Minion memes, okay?

I want every person in this room to try one thing after this.