Why You're Still Using Social Media (Even If You Want to Stop) with Dr. Cass Sunstein

0:06Pushkin The late American author and media critic Neil Postman once famously wrote, technological change is not additive, it is ecological.

0:20A new technology does not merely add something, it changes everything.

0:25Postman made this observation all the way back in 1992, over a decade before smartphones and over a decade before the launch of social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.

0:36Postman's quote feels particularly relevant today, especially given what researchers around the world are learning about the negative effects of these technologies.

0:45Researchers like today's guest.

0:47I'm Cass Sunstein.

0:48I teach at Harvard.

0:50I work on law and behavioral science.

0:53I've been working for about seven years on social media and happiness and the divergence between what people choose and what actually makes their lives better.