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Podcast: Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Episode: 386: Smart phones are a threat to society
Description: The boys drink and review Crowhill's homebrewed extra special bitter, then discuss the problems with smart phones (starting at 3:10).
Mostly relying on the work of Jonathan Haidt, the boys discuss the good and the bad of social media and smart phones.
Imagine social media like giving everybody a dart gun, and the social media platforms promoting everybody who likes to shoot.
Social media makes even small conversations a mine field. A college professor lecturing 200 students can be a world-wide villain before the end of his lecture if somebody is offended and tweets it.
The outrage mob on social media...