in a highly ethical command of good have led to this proportion of to use a force proportion to other people. facility has nothing to do with honey bye to foreclosure. they weren't brits. the configurations were wrong, perhaps accessing force was used. okay, that's a possibility that can be raised, the idea of held its own probe into what happened, but the results were for the armies internal use only and not to hold anybody accountable. shortly after the directive was revoked, but many questions related to its use in 2014 in guys, a still remains with no answers. reef notion of the reporting from doesn't israel and palestine in administration. the us treasury secretary janet yellen tried to say phase and point the finger at fitch accusing the company of processing or relevant data that's after the international reading agency caught washington's credit score. citing concerns over the countries debt burden and state of finances as well as an erosion of governance in fixed views, that has been

a steady deterioration in standards to governance over the last 20 years, including on fisco and debt mattress. notwithstanding the june bipartisan agreement to suspend the debt clement until january 2025, the repeated debt limit political scandals and last minute resolutions have a road confidence in fiscal management. pictures decision is puzzling in light of the economic strength we see in the united states. i strongly disagree with fits his decision and i believe it is entirely unwarranted. it's florida assessment is based on outdated data and fails to reflect improvements across a range of indicators, including those related to governance that we've seen over the past 2 and a half years. it's this is now the 2nd major reading agency after standard and poors to strip america of its aaa, reading the news as spooked investors across the world. as global stocks began to

slide washington, las credit points, despite the us government's last minute deal to raise the debt feeling that says the countries that has hit a record high reaching over $31.00 trillion dollars are to contributor or chris and shares is take on the reasons behind fits is decision to cut the u. s. credit rating. well that basically saying is, if you print lights of money over the course of the last couple of decades, if you miss my, your economies and extend what you've just defeated your entire military possession and sending them to fight to come pick, you know, thousands of miles away from you that has nothing to do with you. this is the result of your economy. the economy is in taxes the, the lot costs of play a policy might thing done by the by didn't administration that comes from the whole infrastructure bill, which was meant to be the big thing. the volume was going to get done. we don't have any more about that, that, you know, he was going to improve all of that infrastructure which is dilapidated with in the

us. we have about is that he is printing more money and then giving that money to ukraine. and that's not very good if you're looking at investing money in an economy, because he can't see the output of those funds, you call and see if it's out of investments in the united states economy right now . you know, this is just another nav nail in the coffin to the dollar. i think, i mean we have the roster african form here in saint petersburg last week. we sold a number of african countries. delightful south leaders talking about teaching the dollar and embracing their own self in currencies. maybe even the brakes nations creating their own brakes. cool, you know, bricks, currency, some of that's kind of the you arrive if that happens. i mean, this is just another incentive for a central bank to anyone to well, to look at alternative currencies to use that level is a trade. so that's all for the segment. and for me, but head over to r t dot com, summer news and content. and don't go far, my colleague, nicky aaron will be taking over at the top of the hour the

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy from foundation. let it be an arms race is on all sides. very dramatic. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very create ticket of time. time to sit down and talk today we are more connected than ever through social media. something many people would say that they couldn't live without a simple text is just not enough anymore to communicate. we have to pleaded pinot snap back into this. take talk back. and that's not even half of it before generation. that is the most interconnected and plugged in. people feel more alone and isolated than ever. i'm christie, and today we're going to be breaking down the ins and outs of the cost of social

media and its effects on society. the social media has helped many businesses grow and promote itself, and it has helped people find a better way to connect and communicate with each other. but on the other hand, it has also invaded people's privacy provided many with problems including mental health, motional insecurity, waste the time, and the baggage of digital permanence. it can also isolate people to not actually be social in real life. now since 2006, facebook has marked the beginning of the social media era where today, 90 percent of adults are now on social media with the vast majority visiting these, it's at least once per day. nearly half of all social media users visits these sites a minimum of $31.00 times per week. and by 2027, it is predicted that there will be nearly 6000000000 people using social media worldwide. now is that gerberg's very simple dream of having everyone spend as much

time as possible. clicking around on his website came true, and now the social network sites users are closing in on $3500000.00 in squandered, productivity. facebook users spend an aggregate of 10500000000 minutes per day on the platform. now if every user replaced their 20 minutes a facebook time with minimum wage work, they would collectively buy soccer birds entire company 2 times over every year. thus, the more time you spend on facebook, the more the company is actually worse. globally, during a typical day, people post 500000000 tweets. sure. over 10000000000 pieces of facebook content and watch over a 1000000000 hours of youtube videos and 6 out of 10 people admit that they can't get through a work day without checking their social media. in 2020 to the top social media

platform based on monthly hours of engagement per user. with tech talk at 25.6 hours followed by youtube. a 22.2 hours. facebook at 16 point, one hours and instagram at 7.7 hours. this phenomenon is known as cyber low thing, which costs business is $85000000000.00 a year through last time. cyber loving is a version of procrastination where people take a step back, also known as psychological detachment, in order to help them must drop the energy to continue through the work day to and as a result in loss productivity. some companies have established regulations on social media usage or how employees may present themselves on social media. the average employee spends 12 percent of their working hours using unproductive social media apps. the average internet users, that's a 145 minutes per day on social media. and 27 percent of people actively use

social media for work in the us, which is significantly lower than the usage of social media for work purposes worldwide, which is 40 percent. india has the most people using social media for work at 47 percent, followed by canada at 31 percent at australia at 30. on average, men are more addicted to social media than women at a rate of 49.6 percent to 32 percent. for many social media is a place to make money and create businesses. but the amount of time spent in social media correlates to productivity losses, like the saying goes, time is money. so with this in mind, let's bring into kendra palmer inside tex, feature editor. thank you so much for joining us to kendra. thank you for having me . absolutely, so now 1st off, let's look at children. how are children and the younger generation today being influenced by social media? do you see a stark difference from previous generations that were not born with access to the

internet and social media? right, i think the way to think about the impact on social media and not just shouldering but everybody is not, but it's completely different from what we have seen in previous generations. but it's an excellent acceleration on steroids. so if you consider the issues that the no toner and women have always had with body image when it, you know, from the days of, um, you know, glossy magazines. those issues are only comp pounded by what technology does on social media from the lives that we see. other people living that we think are christine and glorious and ways that we don't have to the filters that people cut on their faces to make themselves look in a way that other people may consider more beautiful, but is sort of humanly unachievable. all those things have

a mental health impact on how children perceive themselves and their own body image . and that's a problem. absolutely. and now privacy is another problem. it's something that most people take for granted. so are there dangers to over sharing and putting your entire life online for the world to see? of course, and, you know, privacy on social media happens in various ways. of course, there's the issue of data and how the social media companies collect and use our data and who they share it with. but then there's the other sort of more human problem of. what does it mean when we coast our, let's face drive our runs on facebook, or what does it mean when we post about our families in our dogs on facebook? someone says, quite, you know, some of those things that we share on facebook might be that, you know, secret answers to our bank codes for example. or in the case of, you know, posting your pit or strawberry runs on facebook. often times, if you're in a,

you know, covert area, you might be outlining exam be where you are for people who may not want an english, probably should not know why where you are and what you're doing. absolutely, lots of dangerous to over sharing lots of stockers out there. so how do you think the trend of social media will be going forward? do you anticipate people will continue to adopt and use social media in math? or do you think we've reached a sort of critical mass already and are set to pull back? i think that's a good question. and i think at this point, at least in the west, we're reaching critical mass. and you see that and how social media companies are responding and where they're going. so the next 1000000000 project for a lot of the social media companies are targeting places in the global south where you don't see as much social media adoption. that's the next big frontier for these places. and that's mainly because we are reaching

a tax of what we can do in the us with the amount of users that are adopting these platforms. and out social media can be both beneficial and harmful to society at the same time. so how can we balance this out or can we even balance that out or what we risk one into the risk of censorship? yeah, i mean, social media companies always have to make content moderation decisions and in one way or another it, those decisions are going to be seen as centralized yet because it picks what winners and losers. and there's no way that you can do that in some ways. the content moderation is a 0 sum game, right? so there the question of how we can make so for media better, that's a good one. and one that a lot of researchers are tackling now. but whether or not there is a monetary incentive to then implement those strategies still remains to be seen except the same time that the various parts of social media, the, you know,

sort of aggravated emotions that new speeds can create to actually benefit social media companies. because they keep you engaged. so if there's an incentive to, to me make social media better, i haven't yet seen it. so how exactly can we make social media better and what aspects? yeah, i mean that's a good question and i think that's it. that's a, it is vague what we might consider better or worse. and, but there are, there are, you know, researchers that have put in time into thinking about what are the things that we really need as a society out of social media. are there, you know, do we really need to see that much aggravating news on social media, or is there more useful things that we can cut in our menus feed, how do we produce value added and long term value added? and it's also media new seed. and um, you know, those gay,

the question of how to implement that still remains to be seen. it's not something that you know, these companies do right now. absolutely. and do you think people in general are more productive or less productive now after the rise of social media? that's, i mean, that's a good question. but um and to, you know, betray my age. like i have grown up with social media for a large part of my adult life. so whether or not but more productive or less productive. i can tell you because, you know, i'm not a gen x or who, like, you know, was sitting at his desk without like a facebook tab open for, you know, mile adult life. we've had facebook, we've had instagram, we've had the internet. and i think, you know, we as people develop how developed strategies for coping with the sort of new distractions in our lives. so, you know, i personally put a couple restrictions on when they can use social media. and i think that's word for me. but the fact that we need that shows that there is definitely an impact on

productivity that. so for media creates right. and how social media used in developing countries and many places like africa. basically the only access to news outlet is through social media like facebook, news feeds and communication is through what's up. so how does this relate to in developing countries? the right, i mean a you, you hit the nail on the head there. um, the, you know, in developing countries often that platforms like facebook are crucial to communication pain in countries where, you know, freedom of speech might be restricted to having access to a facebook blog. less people speak more freely and you know, even use that we made that people may not otherwise have access to. but at the same time, there is also a very dark downside to it, which is in countries where facebook may not otherwise have local knowledge and

context and expertise. these are also the places where a speech and violence and you know, post that target individuals lives, often full lift rate with a certain amount of mt. impunity because meta and facebook often doesn't do anything about it and sometimes can't do anything about it. thank you. so much for your time and insight today to kendra course. thanks so much for having me. and when we come back, the more time you spend on social media, the more isolated you become as top level engineers spend their time trying to hook you in to spend more time. we'll have more after the break. the

. the excess of social media usage has a high cost, so including addiction, loneliness, depression, reduced self esteem, and reduced ability to develop meaningful relationships and interactions in real

life. more time spent on social media decreases perceived emotional support and increases the fear of miss out. many individuals are replacing time spent with friends with social media, and those who spend an average of 2 hours per day are twice as likely to report social isolation as those who spend less than half an hour per day using social media. and those who are super connected have an increased risk of exciting and depression, as there is no more privacy. while most of us think of privacy as something of superficial value, it is actually extremely important to one's mental health. social media is an ever present reflection on your online self that is being seen and receiving judgment, which kind of road your sense of self leading to a source of chronic stress that suddenly seats into everything. this low grade stress can build up and we often feel like we're constantly battling invisible enemies. excessive social media use also results in more superficial relationships

and feelings of insecurity and pressure to do certain things that make it seem like they're cool or living up to specific standards. the cyber bullying is also a big problem for many teams around the world and even young adults. this occurs whenever threats or comments are made online to hurt others. and while people are well aware of the addictive nature of drugs and alcohol addiction to social media seems to be a made up construct. but it is actually very real soul for me, is purposely designed to have the same addictive effects on the brain with things like likes, shares and comments. triggering an instant release of the opening in the brain. delta mean is an evolutionary chemical designed to help us learn and repeat anything that triggers it's release. so humans being highly social creatures feel better when we're connected and interacting with these likes, chairs,

and comments. and so we become conditioned to act in a certain way that gets more like more views in order to get that doping release. 84 percent of social media users find it addictive and 70 percent of people believe that social media has reduce their attention span. social media advertising spending in the us expected to reach over $94400000000.00 in 2023 and 84 percent of these marketers are targeting millennials, followed by gen x at 52 percent. gen z, a 22 percent. and finally, baby boomers at 14 percent these brilliant engineers graduating from the. * universities dream of getting employed at companies like google, facebook snapshot, instagram on linkedin, who manage to attract all of the top talent of our generation. but what do these top talent engineers end up doing? to find too many algren to get and keep your attention,

make social media more addictive, and more integrated with your life so that these apps can gather more data on you. a learn about you, your habits, your lifestyle, your likes and dislikes, select companies, can sell you more products that are more targeted towards you. in essence, the talent of these engineers are directed towards social engineering and advertising to further consumers. and rather than to further the advancement of technology and solve a real problem that we're facing in the world. and for more let's bring in doctor pub, it's the sheldon author and communication professor at the university of south alabama . so professor, there is a lot of time wasted on social media these days, but without social media, what employees and people in general be doing something else to be taking these little michael breaks or were people more productive before the advent of social media? yeah, um,

i think we all see differences and we talk about the different series and, and the research shows children are socialized differently online, their, their social, they're socializing online, like today's generations. and the, one of the problems with these then when you are talking to somebody, we have facebook messenger or snapchat, or instagram messenger, the non verbal cues a missing. so the non verbal cues are like facial expressions of how your body moves. even yorba kelly, looks like the toner was do, you can see me now, so you can see my reaction to you. but when you're doing this online, all those non verbal cues i'm missing. so this is walter called the queues feel 3rd out. so there is a, there's a theory that was developed 20 years ago. okay. the beginning goal, there's a new social media emerging. this as a non verbal cues. i may say there is a potential for me, subs are standing and i think we see this. we like goes thing and

a friend in each other. and they were talking to this friend just because something has happened on social media. so one comment throws you all and your own friend, the person them, they were talking to you again. i think we started seeing this behavior. it really my generation to late millennials. then it was when you a friend, somebody comes as the ends of friendship, although nothing serious has happened and a person, it probably wouldn't be a big deal. but because it happened online and we couldn't see another person's reaction to this. they're also issues with um, as you mentioned with the younger generations, our research shows that the younger generations compares a lot more because of social media. so they have a social media as an outlet to look at other young people like a nice program. oh look healthy, they are a look at their location. i'm sitting at home and my living grow. like doing nothing watching tv, netflix, and front of my computer and they're having to location, you know, they're,

they're in florida or just traveling somewhere internationally. and it, they compare and they believe that the other people having more fun than them so which causes the low over sofi steam and it causes depression. and the research shows a higher rates of depression and young people, higher rates of suicide because of social media. and comparisons, but as you mentioned, so this is the negative side of social media. the positive side of social media use of course, social connections. i'm just thinking about myself, although i'm not, i'm not anymore the i'm the younger generation z, but my family leaves the road increase in one way for me to stay in touch with them is like be a facebook. so i find out what, what's going on, what's happening either to the public post or to present message, or we even use the veto to talk to each other. and also social media can help these what isolated or maybe suffer with some kind of a disability or have a um,

their, their secret home. they can go to school. well, this is one way to socialize with their friends, like they can send each other. they've just messages, see what their friends are doing because they're, they're at home and they didn't choose to be at home. i think call it is a good example. so when we talking about the social media, how affects us, there are pros and cons, right? and we kind of have to have to figure out and teach young people how to use social media responsible. and how important is social media in the workplace? does it help or hinder productivity in bonding? um to yeah, this is the sofa is this break can be a little bit longer that way and then they tell because of social media, a realistic emulating like the cost on the vacations, i get a notification that people have like a post. i have to click on every single one to see what they have for the have wrote about my post. unless when you post is actually going to become

a big deal because out of people's lives and comments. as a stimulating and then they make us feel good. so we review like when we get like the comments, like wow, people are reading about my life. is this adults, i mean though, how some of these posting. so the more post on may like, especially in the morning, the more i am inclined to go and check my social media during the day or or work. or if i get a notification on my phone is one of the reasons like there are no specifications on my phone because i don't want to be constantly checking. because if it's every single notification, i'm like, oh, okay, let me open this instagram. okay, a facebook, let's see what the people posting when it comes to productivity. the research shows that we are less productive e and then it really depends on the industry so, so i don't want just generalize. it says we are less productive, but the productivity at school has declined. the focus has decline our attention

span of windows. so there's, there's different numbers which i don't want to talk about numbers, but you'll find different information from like 30 seconds to 8 seconds because of social media notifications, instant justifications, like instance lives and the comments, i think a folder i posed this, that we don't focus on the school or is the used to the the children have um, a shorter attention span and those children become a doll. right. the millennials are waiting there for these. so they become the dog in the fuck is definitely. it's something that has suffered because of social media . thank you so much dr. for this stuff are all your time today. social media is a tool and like any other tool, it can be used for good or bad. it can't connect us with others and offer outlets for creativity and self expression. but it can also foster addiction,

decreased face to face communications skills, and distractions at work. so while the biggest loser you can say are millennials instead of the ones most susceptible to social media, having had all their lives, the biggest winters remain the social media companies itself. a facebook has over 2900000000 monthly active users and has the highest return on investment for digital marketers, followed by instagram, linkedin, tick, tock, and youtube. they made $23100000000.00 and net profits in 2022. so while these apps appear to be free, the real cost, is it your information, your profile, your data that these apps gather and then sell it to marketing agencies in order for companies to better target their products to their desired demographics? i'm christy, i. thanks for watching and we'll see you right back your next time on the cost of everything

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