When everyone got an iPhone around 2011, 2012, the girls all went for these visual platforms. The boys went for video games and YouTube, which are not as harmful. Karen: We have to look at boys' childhood very differently. It's about what do boys need to be healthy? And what they need is a gang. They need a group. Those adventures have to be face to face or rather shoulder to shoulder.
Kara and Scott dissect what the FTX meltdown means for cryptocurrency, Meta's layoffs, and how the midterms might impact big tech. Friend of Pivot Jonathan Haidt stops by to talk about the impacts of social media on teens and society. And hours after our regular taping, we dragged Scott out of a fancy London bar to record an updated reaction to the latest Twitter news: Elon Musk was warning of a possible Twitter bankruptcy, while top executives were jumping ship.
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