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Podcast: How To Be...Books Podcast
Episode: Why Social Media Can Be Harmful - with Get Rich Or Lie Trying author Symeon Brown
Description: Welcome to "How To Be...", guiding you through life's tricky topics and skills by reading through the best books out there. As social media has proliferated worldwide—Facebook has 2.85 billion users—so too have concerns over how the platforms are affecting individual and collective wellbeing. So why is social media potentially harmful and are we aware about it? Hence, I spoke to Channel 4 News correspondent and Get Rich or Lie Trying author Symeon Brown on whether or not social media is harming us all, as well as other experts' books to see if their advice can help all of us. Plea...