Has Twitter made us mean, dumb, and addicted?

[@LouisFoglia]

BTW: St. Lawrence University professor Stephen Barnard - who I interviewed for this video - wrote a great opinion piece this week urging journalists not to abandon Twitter. "The news media cannot regain trust if they stop listening to their audience. So I urge journalists to stay with us on Twitter." Check out the full article: thehill.com/opinion/campaign/399412-journalists-please-dont-leave-its-time-to-fix-twitter

[@feocco]

Beme news is high quality content. I appreciate your teams work. Lou, I like you. Keep at it guys.

[@007order007]

So happy this channel is still active, thank you Lou

[@JarrodsTech]

4:02 I don't trust this BumNews guy. *follows MemeNews*

[@CitiesoftheFuture]

So Interesting as always! We love this channel in the office!

[@mariebonnat2600]

Love this channel!

[@LouisFoglia]

Thanks guys!

[@zurilift]

Healthy conversations need to happen in person. The internet has made public discourse toxic and intolerant and the dependence on it needs to end.

[@LouisFoglia]

"online disinhibition effect"

[@Steve_Solomon]

I'm a millennial that has never had twitter and never will.

[@TheSvmurai]

I think the most recent evidence of groupthink is the James Gunn situation.

[@robertdownes8223]

I don't think anyone has ever mentioned it but... that Cuse mug on your desk... that's a nice mug

[@LouisFoglia]

Finally, someone noticed!

[@Tom-xy9gb]

Twitter is a real biased app.

[@farizalresat]

Many years ago I've quit smoking, but I can't quit Twitter.

[@timrichards6687]

Farizal Resat I quit social media 6 years ago but can't quit smoking. I wish we could share our strengths

[@sanctokalibero]

well i really hate it

[@Bugermanchi]

I quite both since I didn’t do both of them

[@Lumencraft-]

Of course they have psychologists as consultants! That's every company with good marketing.

[@LouisFoglia]

Yeah - I wish they gave me a statement to that effect. But I understand they were probably worried about a clickbait headline like "Twitter's secret team of psychologists!"

[@Lumencraft-]

LOL! Right, can't have anyone using their own weapons against them.

[@CronicGaming94]

I hate Twitter.

[@ChintanPandya01]

I don't use any social media extensively. Don't even have a twitter account. Never will. A good face to face chat and network is all there is to life. Social media is just an illusion, a dangerous one, now so, more than ever before.

[@CallieMasters5000]

Same here. When people post details of their lives online, I always think to myself "Who the hell cares?!".

[@ChintanPandya01]

@@CallieMasters5000 True

[@rud]

Facebook and especially Twitter did nothing good for me. Too many with nothing insightful to offer were empowered to share their talentless word puke.

[@isaacleggett3303]

Beme news walks the tight-rope of fair news coverage, they might wobble sometimes, but never fall off. I hope they try to maintain the balance.

[@10HW]

On twitter you just "puke" what you want to say. You're not expected to read the replies or to listen to anybody. There is no conversation on there, only people shouting stuff (like the birds in the Pixar short)

[@LouisFoglia]

Great short!

[@10HW]

Louis Foglia isn't? :D

[@physicslawss]

im so addicted to twitter, I tweeted 100k tweets in one year and half

[@adityasudarshan90]

These guys deserve more subs

[@zoyai]

Love BEME news, very interesting topics and relevant to our world. thanks guys!

[@LiamPorterFilms]

Why were people saying this channel had failed? It's really good!

[@fredburns6846]

cuz lou seems stuck up and unlikable

[@Lumencraft-]

My treat comes out every time I pull the lever on beme :P

[@JohnnyShea]

this is excellent. thanks Lou

[@maxafc4695]

7:02 it's not Twitter that I get annoyed at, it's the people on there that piss me off often

[@coda-n6u]

I don't really use social media at all. I do really have a FOMO but I know that is my ego or some voice in my head that wants affirmation. I want to be in the loop, but I know being in the loop is not good for people's mental health.

[@mahbubulrifat5055]

Hey lou. Can you please take a look at what’s happening in Bangladesh right now. We really need some coverage.

[@irongrin99]

Never understood the "need" for twitter myself, so I don''t use it.

[@MrFindX]

I'm starting to like there social media videos, keep it up!

[@Torsee]

Great vid! The notification bell on this platform! 👎 The " Turn on the Push Notifications button on some app's" 👎 Constant feed, never any alone time.

[@utseay]

How'd Beme go from a 25 million dollar acquisition to being shot in a basement on a 1st gen iPhone 3?

[@CxClips]

Please start making videos with topics worth watching. Don't want this channel to go down. :(

[@tannerwilson4843]

Any chance of doing a live stream sometime?

[@LouisFoglia]

I did a 10 hour one in December.... But MAYBE!

[@hakeemadjei2035]

The ending was magnificent

[@timrichards6687]

Twitter and all social medias imo are more harmful to society and individuals than helpful. I stopped using all social media 6 years ago and my fears at the time we're things like how will I stay connected to my friends and family? The truth is I'm still connected to those I love and care about without any social media and my life has been a lot less anxious without it. I wish all social media would disappear

[@CallieMasters5000]

I've never used Twitter or even read it, other than in news reports. No need to start now!

[@juanfernandez1696]

Remember people if you don't give the internet anything it can't hurt you with it. Trolls can't get to you if you don't first provide them with the means to do so.

[@LouisFoglia]

I hear you - but I think missing out on all the advantages of tech and social media is a high cost to pay for not being bullied.

[@5ANDW1CHES]

That’s why we talk about blockchain, it can align incentives. People are so focused on the markets they fail to see the practical utility. Wall Street motivates companies only to profit even if that screws society, corporations are legally bound to profit. Blockchain can motivate it’s constituents to fulfill it’s goal, which could be anything, and whether or not it achieves that goal is what gives any platform value.

[@FAMØSenterprise]

dude this video came right when i was listening to Stromae - carmen . literally same topic lmao

[@pentekimi]

meme news is a nice touch

[@Tigerwoodsfan]

I am quitting social media for the whole month of August. Somehow KZbin is a social media platform as well, but I am only consuming interesting things which give value. Feel free to join this challenge to fight social media addiction in order to bring back the ability to focus!

[@australianfines7695]

privacy of most citizens is gone

[@FNLNFNLN]

Twitter should be regulated as a public utility.

[@rajhimself]

can we get over 'its a thing' intro afterall!

[@LouisFoglia]

Ah, follow me on twitter: @loufoglia

[@erice1763]

Louis Foglia nah

[@isn0t42]

I deleted my twitter account. Twitter design impedes the way I'm used to expressing my thoughts online. I tried and couldn't use it for long. First I used screenshots for longer posts, then realized the platform isn't worth the hassle, no pun intended.

[@johnpossum556]

I never use twitter. What does this say about those of us who don't use twitter?

[@isn0t42]

+John Possum Nothing. Only that so far you've avoided one of a gazillion of addictive, stupifying systems that are constantly present in life.

[@ryanellis4474]

Are you here to stay? Are you going to keep making new content under the Beme name indefinitely? Will you ever be just you, or are you a company man? I love the passage in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs, where Jobs' cofounder and longtime friend, Steve Wozniak, said that he wanted a middle-management position in the company instead of a position at the top. He said his dad always advised that he not take on the stress of total control and instead have a middle position that let him focus on the parts of work that he truly loved. I would love to shoot with you in Detroit if you ever show up in my side of the country. Check out my channel.

[@BryceDearden]

Left Twitter 6 months ago, never regretted it

[@jctsea]

"Does it's harm outweigh it's good?" In my old AP Style book, they described the internet as "two-thirds chaff, one-third actual valuable data." Am I "Old Man Yells at Cloud" if I think the chaff of #FakeNews et al., aren't Twitter's fault? The platform isn't the issue as much as the users are- Reddit, Twitter, etc.

[@LouisFoglia]

Oh definitely....it enables it though. It gives bad actors the ability to amplify their worst characteristics. I have no real solution , though.

[@TheChristenberry]

Idk why "News" always asks the viewer whether something is good or bad for them. By now everyone should know that everything is just tool, its how people use it.

[@LouisFoglia]

News includes commentary and opinion. That's what I do - explain and analyze different issues from a variety of perspectives, including my own.

[@teh7634]

7:38 I will use this in conversation

[@isn0t42]

Limited number of characters promotes limited thought. Twitter is a platform suited only for outrage, not intelligent conversation.

[@fredburns6846]

"the profit motive is less important than the public good." is a sentence never said by any person ever in the history of people trying to make money companies are bound by law to maximize profit at all costs. thats why we have regulations, to force companies to act for the public good in conflict with the profit motive. also i disagree with the notion that twitter is bad for journalism. with twitter anyone can be a journalist and while you see that as a flaw lou, i see it as an advantage. think about how much power large media companies have, if they have a monopoly on journalism.

[@riondoesthings1988]

Yeah it made us worse people are so mean on Twitter

[@adrienpiette6746]

I rather spend my time at the library. 📚

[@Maishian]

Twitter is a shit show. I don't know why any one would ever use it other then to promote/advertise a product/company.

[@idontevenknow3707]

We can't dismiss twitter, but it definitely gets the best of our biased/simplistic brains.

[@neilcidial-masrysandagesid7796]

0:15 Title Ouch. Favourite Platform.

[@lordcheese2574]

very interesting

[@tylerc5311]

*Yes* .

[@Pre-Omniscient]

Does anyone else think Lou is kind of a stud?

[@LouisFoglia]

Hopefully my wife.

[@phynx2006]

Wow people still tweet?

[@kamudrikahkm]

Are those jellyfish in the aquarium real?

[@LouisFoglia]

Nope.

[@joelcleare]

Twitter is a read only platform for people who have something to loose.

[@ChrisAwake]

Lou, i think the light setup is a bit too dim for this video set - in addition you shouldnt wear a dark shirt!

[@YadiAnyankah]

I can barely notice or give a f $$k ... Great content always wins.

[@localblackman427]

It allllll depends on who you follow and the content you like and retweet.

[@blackearl7891]

Yes

[@batbawls]

COME ON, Lou. Did you just say "thought leader"?

[@vn8375]

I’m assuming by “us” you mean only the people who use twitter.

[@TommyDJr45]

Short answer: Yes.

[@JeandrePetzer]

I got my twitter account locked/banned along with 1M other people in the recent Age-Lock scandal. Go check out the Twitter subreddit

[@jennykate10]

I just followed you on twitter... oops. Good video though.

[@lordharambe4653]

That video of that man climbing that building to save a child looks staged... there is a man appears to be holding the child to make sure he doesn’t fall when the other guy was climbing

[@moses_njoku]

I don't think beme has been gaining subscribers since Casey left

[@nitropicxd]

yes

[@scjlviolin]

I don't use twitter. I just look at screenshots of tweets on instagram

[@alekseysoldatenkov5675]

Y u so reasonable Lou!?

[@12345shipreck]

I refuse to use twitter, the youtube comment section is way better.

[@LouisFoglia]

When I first started posting the comment section was much more toxic. But as people get use to you, I guess, the comments are more civil.

[@heavy_ang_patay]

Hell no. KZbin comments are just as bad.

[@12345shipreck]

@@heavy_ang_patay nah g

[@AchilleasDrakou]

Most people in Europe don't use Twitter

[@thexdatabase]

shadow banning

[@c0pyimitati0n]

Who is this "we" you speak of? I haven't used Twitter in years... Our word is so weird now.

[@SDSBBQs]

*#*

[@claydog6422]

Clinton so out of touch at the end of the video...sad

[@maven12LA]

Damn

[@thexdatabase]

anyone can say anything ? not really

[@AidanJokes]

Dashaunds > Chihuahuas

[@goed1adit]

Clinton talking about Iranian needs in front of US & Israel flag. Hmm.

[@Shenepoy]

...ppl stop overreacting and use it less thats all

[@ToriKo_]

Oh look it's what I've been saying for the past few months

[@hridaytulsianj1832]

It seems beme are running out of ideas for videos...