Mark Zuckerberg addresses teen addiction to Facebook — Transcript

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1. 0:00Um, you're a dad. Uh, I'd like to talk a
2. 0:02little bit about social media addiction.
3. 0:04You started uh your comments today by
4. 0:07talking about how Facebook is and was
5. 0:09founded as an optimistic company. You
6. 0:11and I have had conversations separate
7. 0:12from here. Um, I don't want to put words
8. 0:14in your mouth, but I think as you've
9. 0:15aged, you might be a little bit less
10. 0:17idealistic and optimistic uh than you
11. 0:19were when you when you started Facebook.
12. 0:22As a dad, uh do you worry about social
13. 0:24media addiction as a problem for
14. 0:26America's teens?
15. 0:28Well, my hope is is that we can be
16. 0:30idealistic, but have a broad view of our
17. 0:32responsibility. Uh,
18. 0:34to your your point about teens, this is
19. 0:36certainly something that I think any
20. 0:37parent thinks about is how much do you
21. 0:39want your kids using technology?
22. 0:42It it At Facebook specifically,
23. 0:45uh I view our responsibility as not just
24. 0:46building services that people like, but
25. 0:49building services that are good for
26. 0:50people and good for society as well. So,
27. 0:52we study a lot of effects of well-being
28. 0:55of our of our tools and broader
29. 0:57technology. And, you know, like any
30. 0:59tool, um there are good and and bad uses
31. 1:01of it. What we find in general is that
32. 1:04if you're using social media uh in order
33. 1:07to build relationships, right? So,
34. 1:08you're you're sharing content with
35. 1:09friends, you're interacting, then that
36. 1:11is associated with all of the long-term
37. 1:14measures of well-being that you'd
38. 1:16intuitively think of. Long-term health,
39. 1:18long-term happiness, long-term feeling
40. 1:19connected, feeling less lonely. But, if
41. 1:22you're using the internet and social
42. 1:23media um primarily to just passively
43. 1:26consume content and you're not engaging
44. 1:27with other people, then it doesn't have
45. 1:29those positive effects and it could be
46. 1:30negative.
47. 1:31We're We're almost at time, so I want to
48. 1:32I want to ask you one more. Uh, do
49. 1:33social media companies hire consulting
50. 1:36firms to help them figure out how to get
51. 1:38more dopamine feedback loops so that
52. 1:40people don't want to leave the platform?
53. 1:43No, Senator. That's not how we talk
54. 1:45about this or or or how we uh set up our
55. 1:48product teams. We want our products to
56. 1:50be valuable
57. 1:51to people and if they're valuable, then
58. 1:53people choose to use them.
59. 1:54Are you aware of other social media
60. 1:55companies that do hire such consultants?
61. 1:58Not sitting here today.
62. 2:00Thanks.