What Is Your Like Positive Takeaway for the Future of Social Media?

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Andrew Marantz: You can create a social media for yourself that is based around the stuff you want it to be, seeing your friends and baby pictures. He says he's trying to meditate more in his spare time. "I feel like a lot of this stuff just boils down to what are you actually doing with your attention on a moment by moment basis"

The internet can be a wonderful, but also a terribly unpleasant place. Andrew Marantz knows this well. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker who spent three years embedded in the world of internet trolls to understand how regular people propel fringe talking points into the heart of online conversations. In this episode, he shares how ideas spread on the internet – and what we can do to make our digital experiences less about doom-scrolling, and more about real human connection. For the full text transcript, visit go.ted.com/BHTranscripts