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Welcome to the Growth Mindset Show. If you are joining us first time, welcome to the show

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questions and today's topic is social media i'm sure um most of us here are on social media and

today we are going to talk a little bit about social media and i want to get you involved i want to know what you think and what you do and all that so i want to get

you involved in that we are going to talk a little bit about what's going on on c-sharp corner we are

also going to talk about some of the hiring and what new things we are working on the product as

well and uh let's start and we're going to have a guest in the second half of the show it's going

to be again 30 40 minutes show uh and we're going to have a guest hopefully my sound is good let me

check i am and i'm on a different laptop today um so yeah let's start with a one of the cool things

happened this week i don't know if you have tried but windows 11 launch on october 5th is uh any of

you have any of you installed windows 11 yet uh yeah just post me in your chat in the comments um

if you have installed windows 11 or if you're planning to install it if you have already

installed it let me know what you think and then i'll share what i think i just installed windows

11 on one of my laptops um so a couple of things i found is biggest problem i found with windows 11

is the login so if you are mean like many of you are and like me uh you use your laptop for your

personal use as well as your for your company use so if you um are on microsoft teams or somehow

logged into your company's network somehow my windows 11 was messed up the login was messed up

and what was the problem was actually when i was trying to log in using my pin

it would not let me use my pin it was thinking that my company account was my login account

so it took me a while to figure that out so if you are using your laptop

in to access your company teams i would highly recommend that you remove that account before

you upgrade your windows 11 or maybe just uninstall teams for the for the time being

until you install it. That should fix your problem. One other thing you want to do probably

so there's multiple ways you can install Windows 11. I think Microsoft recommends is that you wait

until your Windows update starts showing that you now have a Windows 11 and you can install there

That's what Microsoft recommends. That's what I would recommend as well, but I didn't want to wait

because my laptop wasn't showing it. So I was like, no, I really want to install right now

So I went, download it, and I installed myself. That's probably the reason I got those problems

what problems I got. So, yeah, if you have installed Windows 11

what your first thoughts are? I think what I, to me, it's okay

I mean, I like this new, okay, there's new design, there's new screens

It's more like Apple looking. Yeah, big deal. I can care less. I was fine with my Windows 10 as well

It has more themes and all that. I think it's targeting more the younger people who are looking for cool UI

I haven't dig more into the performance and other hardware and other things

but good thing is everything else worked fine. Your audio, video, anything I was using, my drivers, everything was fine

Visual Studio, Office, all the applications seems to be working fine. Skype, no problems

Yeah, I didn't have any other problems. Okay, so Deepak says he's using Windows 11 since

29th June. So you probably try very early. That's awesome. That's great. Yeah, Deepak, if you like it

what do you think? You like? You don't like? What's your favorite feature in there

yeah just share with us yeah that's great so that was windows 11 let's start with another topic we

are going to cover in c-sharp corner so c-sharp corner we are uh you know rebranding the platform

the the whole website and the apps all those combined um we are working in the design phase

right now we are always designing okay there's always some work going on c-sharp corner we have

a team of developers and designers. But this time we are really thinking about how Windows 10

and Windows 11 they kind of read the whole thing Same thing we are thinking about C Sharp Corner More details I have more designs I have I going to start sharing with you know talk about some of the things on this show as well

So that's something cool coming up. I'm very excited about this. There's a lot of things coming on C Sharp Corner as well as, you know, on our platform

On jobs, C Sharp Corner jobs, we are now more working on jobs a lot

You probably saw job section where we are posting jobs daily. we're also hiring ourselves

I mean, C Sharp Corner team is hiring in India and US, as well as my company, Mindcracker

We're also hiring developers for our clients in Mindcracker in the US

So if you know anybody or any who's looking for a job

it has to be experienced. Yeah, unfortunately, we don't hire too many younger

unexperienced people, but it's just the demand. That's how it is, right? So check that out, jobs

And, you know, if you know somebody who's looking for jobs, just check out those

Great thing in the U.S. is, I don't know about India, but in the U.S. is that there's so much demand for software developers, all kinds of software developers, .NET developers, Java developers, cloud architects, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers

There's so much demand. And because this pandemic and working from home, it has changed so much

The technology has moved almost five years advance in the last one year or so

So that's why there's so much demand coming up. So all of you who are in this field, we should all be lucky because there's no limitation of so many things you can learn and grow

And job is not a problem these days. So that's, I covered those two things

And I want to talk about the main topic in social media today. And I want to talk about social media

And let me bring our guest today, David Simon. Whenever David's ready, he can come in

and we're going to just talk about social media. I'm sure you probably heard that Facebook, Instagram

and WhatsApp went down. Do you know why they went down? Did you read anything on that

And I want to just first wait for your responses that what do you guys think

And then I'll talk about why it went down and what was the major problem

at least what I read online. But this is the biggest problem going forward

in this world we live in, right? One of the problems is going to happen

Yes, Simon said there was DNS issues. There were some routing issues. So here's the funny part

Their company, their building, you know, buildings have these login, you know, people can check in, check out

they can use their key to you know open the door and even open the office doors and i think one of

the reason was because their server went down means their applications went down means their

card didn't work so the the technical people who are supposed to fix the dns and other issues

their card they couldn't get in the office so they didn't get an office how will you get so i think

one of the challenges that when you build applications, they are centralized. They are

stored and managed on centralized servers. And something happened to those servers

What happened? That's when these old problems happened. It wasn't distributed. It wasn't

decentralized. Right. And that's where I'm more and more getting involved in blockchain technology

And that's what blockchain brings to the table is decentralization. And it's distributed. That

means there are multiple nodes and they are each node acts as a server and if one or two nodes goes

down that's fine they go down that's fine because the rest of the network will still be functioning

so that was funny i thought but since we are all building the software right all of us i'm sure

you're watching they're all building software biggest challenge for us is coming out in next

a few years is the data the amount of data we are storing each like every day think of us like

you wake up first thing what do you do you look at your phone look at your time you then look at

your social media you look at emails you wake up and then you you know listen to music while you're

in shower or eating you're reading news or something then you are working on your remotely

on your laptop and then all day you're doing something you're watching movie so what we are

doing as a human being is we are all either creating a lot of content and storing that

somewhere or we are consuming means we're downloading from somewhere and consuming it

so point is that all of us seven billion people in this world every minute every second in their

devices, just the phone, homes, cars, all what we are doing is we are like generating so much data

and we are consuming so much data. So data is going back and forth to billions of people

And this data not only travels from one machine to other machine, one server to other server

it's also stored on so many servers, thousands of thousands sometimes. So this is going to create

so much problem for us and we should be ready for that so this good part for us is that's what you

need to start thinking like if you want to build something learn something new in future what is

this coming so that's where i think pushpinder has a good point web 3.0 right web 3.0 has these

technologies so it's supposed to solve some of these problems and blockchain is one of them

and that's why my more focus on blockchain is blockchain is one of the technologies that will

help solve this centralized problem. And Keshev joins us. Good morning, Keshev. I think it's

night there. You are in a village. This is night. Hushvinder, welcome to the show again. Today we

are talking about social media, how social media is impacting our lives, good and bad. If you have

any feedback on social media here, just share me why you like, what you dislike. And I'll put my

on points here with social media. So I was doing some research and in the US we spend average 3.13

three hours like three and quarter hours each day on social media. Average person. I'm not

talking about me, everybody you know some spend probably one hour, some spend five hours. This

is how it is. So we're spending about three hours. What happened to my Instagram? Okay Simon says

what happened to my Instagram. Yes, I will share my story with Instagram. So we spend about three hours on social media

If you combine three hours a day in your whole lifetime, we live around 80 years, average lifetime

In 80 years, we spend eight years of our lives on social media

You're basically spending a big chunk of your life. Think of this. in 24 hours you ensure seven eight hours sleep six to eight hours you spend some time working

obviously average people work four hours a four hours a day that how much we work we sleep and as much as we are working same thing amount we are spending on social media and goofing around on these apps

Think about that. And how productive it is making you. So one thing is that we are spending seven, eight years of our lives on social media

That means all these companies, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn, all that are taking a big chunk of our lives

And if we don't start realizing that the time we are spending on the social media, if we are not getting anything out of it, that means we are wasting that time

And I'm not saying social media is bad or good. It can be good. It can be bad

it depends on how you use it. You have to have a balance. You have to have a balance between

your personal use, your entertainment use, your friends and family use versus your productive

use, right? The social media can also be thought of as a tool, tool for your growth, tool for your

personal growth, tool for your professional growth. So if I'm on Twitter and I'll give an example

if I'm on Twitter and I'm a programmer, I want to learn, I will follow the accounts that will help me

learn new things, right? But if I'm on Twitter or Facebook and I'm following something that's like

politics, that's like, you know, something that's interested to me, but it's not really

helping me grow in my life, then you start wasting your time. And the research just came out

the study just came out, and there was a big debate going in the US is now how social, especially

Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, when they build these algorithms, they are making them

more and more addictive. And they are bringing all the topics where they will get you more addictive

For example, we all know that hate, emotional hate is one of the most fastest growing emotions

right? It will catch you much faster than anything, than love, than other emotions, right

So what does that mean? It means if you post something which you hate or dislike, you are more likely to comment on that, to share that, to, you know, get furious about it

So your brain starts going out. So end of the day, what's happening? End of the day, it's wasting your time

You're wasting your time because it's not helping you grow, right? First of all, it's taking you away from your goals

and second of all by the time you realize that you're done with this thing you spend so much

time it's frustrating you that also affect your other things and a perfect example is let's say

you read you go so you know you go to your facebook today you read something that somebody

posted a you know bad thing about one of the leaders you love and then you reply that back

and you reply back and forth and out of sudden you're just fighting on social media but the

fighting maybe on social media now your your whole mind is all you know you are all angry or

all that now you go to work and then your anger is going to be reflected there or you go to meet

your friends or you're with family so it all affects into everybody around you

and that's what you need to think about that really is the social media

helping you grow in your personal professional life and i'm not saying it is or it maybe it is

a lot of people taking advantage i've i've know people i've known people where they started

facebook they started twitter they started youtube and they're making a lot of good money on that

they're using that a business use they put content out there and they promote the content their

followers so they are being they're using social media as a tool if you're using social media as a

because you are bored with your life, you have nothing important to do, you need to rethink about

your life because social media is not the place to be. And they also found out in the research that

the impact of social media like is the same as you would do, you know, impact on your brain is

same as from any drugs. Like, you know, it affects the same part of your brain. So you get these

you know, dopamine release where you feel good. You feel happy. You feel like some satisfied

but it's very temperately. Then because effects like a drug, you wanted more, right? You wanted

more, you go back again. And all of a sudden becomes a habit. Once it becomes a habit

then it's hard to quit that. Once you start, you know, using it, then becomes a habit. And then

even you don't want to do it, you'll just automatically do it because you're not even

doing it. It's just your subconscious mind is already trying to do it because now it's your

habit. So if you're trying to build something habit, think about this really. Look inside you

ask yourself a question, okay, how much time did I spend today on social media

And what did I get out of that? Think about it. And I want to give you one more question to think

about how many times you look at your bank account that how much money you have look at your expenses

how much money you're going to spend this month look at your income and do the calculations and

work on that like okay i'm making this much money each month i'm spending this much how do i manage

that money how many times how many of you do that just reply me here how many of you think about

money every day. I bet all of us, everybody think about even if you ask Elon Musk who is the richest

person in the world he also probably thinking about money every day. But how many times really

do you think about in the day that how am I spending my time? Ask yourself how many times

do you think in a day that how did you spend your time today time is probably the most valuable

currency in the world because we have 24 hours a day you cannot make it you cannot earn more this

is limited that's it so if you look at the habits of success people successful people versus not so

successful people it's only one of the biggest difference you will find is how do you manage your

time and how do you spend your time and what do you get out of that and you probably saw my article

on productivity and that's the reason I write on these because I learned from my you know what I do

learn and I write about it I may be wrong I may be right that's why I want to you know listen from

you like do you agree do you disagree what's your thought on this why don't you post comment I want

to discuss some comments let's take some comments like come on guys we want to know if um so what

does let's say pushbender says that don't believe blindly on social media you must post yes you must

do the fast check that's very important actually one of the biggest problem with social media

is that there's so much false information um and it's hard to do fact check actually you know it's

not that easy that oh is it fact or is it not right If I following some person which I like and they are motivated by some let say some religion or some politics and they post something i automatically assumed that

yeah i think because i trust that person that's the challenge and doing all the research and

finding out what's right what's wrong is uh it takes time so to me if you ask me i don't believe

anything i don't care about things i ignore things so you have to think about always one thing can

help in this is set up your goals set up your goals and what you want to say for example

i don't know you want to become you want to own your own company let's just say that you want to

start your own business you want to start your own startup set up that goal in everything you do

think about how is this thing helping you get to your goal so for example you want to start your

startup i don't know selling so you are you have an app and you want to build an app for

i don't know selling some products you go on social media great you go personally you know

social media for your personal use but also think can i use this social media that can help me in my

startup in my business start thinking that way once you start thinking that way you automatically

you know ignore the things that don't matter to you that's so that's why it will help if you want

let's say you want to do a master's degree or phd in computer science start following people

start following companies or start following accounts that will help you educate you on that

topic if you want to become a software architect try to start following accounts because whatever

accounts you follow more information you see from them more you will read and that's what you will

become it's a known fact we become what information we consume it's that simple and you can tell

there's so many you know famous people have quoted that and it's proven that you you are what your

friends are if you look at your five closest friends you are reflection of that if not you

will become exactly that because that's where you consume most of your information and that's what

your brain will start believing that yeah and that's what you'll become so think about this

way i think we need some guests anybody wants to come join uh pospender you want to come join in

the back side looks like you have good knowledge of a lot of topics anybody wants to come join

behind the scene. I think we're waiting on David. David is going to join us in a minute

And here we go. Hey, David, look at that. How are you? I love your background

Yeah, that's all my speakers from my first year of Rocking the Code World

Yeah, and these are some of the people that are very influential in this programming world

especially in Microsoft. Yep, that's true. How are things going there in California

They're going good. It's actually raining here, which is very rare for San Diego, at least

All right. We had some really bad thunderstorms on Monday, which is very, very, very rare

We rarely get lightning and thunder here at all. Wow, wow. Yeah

So before that, Puspinner has asked, how do I join? So Simon, you can help him out

Puspinner, I would love to have you join in a few minutes. Yep. So yeah, about thunderstorms. So day before yesterday, I was sleeping at night and I was dreaming that my house is flying. And then I woke up and Lana told me that, did you know that we had bad thunderstorm last night and the house was shaking

yeah and i didn't the next day i realized that was real because when i sleep i'm out okay yeah

you can literally you know have a band playing on my ear i'm not gonna wake up yeah yeah yeah

so all right how things going everything is going good there yeah yeah yeah so we were today we were

talking about social media and i know you are very active on social media i'm personally not

on Facebook. I had a Facebook account. I uploaded a bunch of pictures of my son and kids a long time

ago. I didn't want to delete them. Account is there as in like a saving so I can go back

I don't really use Facebook. I'm never on Facebook. Yeah, I've actually, you know

I was thinking about this before you brought me on. And, you know, quite frankly, the only reason

I'm even on social media is because of the MVP summit. You know, because way back a long time

ago when I was at the MVP summit, Facebook was out and, you know, the, the only way we could

really kind of communicate amongst ourselves and where the parties are and where things are

happening was, was Facebook. Right. And so right there at the conference, I joined Facebook so I

could find out where all the parties are. And then a couple of years later everybody kind of moved to

Twitter. And so then that's how we found out where everything was going on. And so quite frankly

I don't think I even had a desire to join social media. And to tell you what I've done

especially because of the political climate in America, at least, that the beginning of last

summer, I basically pseudo left Facebook, right? I took it off my phone. I only use it pretty much

to market my shows and my books and stuff like that. I really don't do anything personal on it

anymore. You know, there's only one person I chat to in India through it. And she's the one who did

the painting of me. And so, yeah, I don't really use Facebook. And I've even tweeted and put on

Facebook if anybody would mind if I deleted my Facebook account. Oh, Mahesh, we can't hear you

anymore. Mahesh, I think you're on mute. Something's going on. We can't hear you

you've done something. Push print that even you are muted. Yeah. I think you're muted somehow

Anyway, I'll keep talking while Mehesh tries to figure it out. But yeah

so that's the only reason. And I don't really use Facebook anymore. And to tell you the truth

since I left it, which was actually took me a couple of days to kind of get myself off the

addiction of Facebook. but um i feel so much better that i'm not on facebook anymore you know my let my stress is

better my mood is better you know i don't waste so much freaking time you know on the phone or

on the web just looking at people's silly pictures and stuff so um i feel better not being on facebook mahas

mahas is still still trying to figure out his audio problems so i'll keep talking i guess

So for our other guests on here, what do you think about social media

Yes, social media is very cool to reach out with multiple people

Because of social media, I am connected here and I used to follow Mahesar for a long time

And after that, I saw the tweet link and then I joined this one

Actually, sometimes what happens with social media algorithm is just like whatever you like

Yeah. And let me, let me stop you real quick because like half of your audio is cutting out

So I guess it's the problems with audio show. So maybe you can look at your microphone because something's happened and

we're only getting like half of what you're saying through, through your microphone. So I guess I'll keep talking

I don't know what anybody else have comments about social media. But, you know, I think maybe what you were saying is don't blindly believe social media

Yeah. And that's, you know, that's, you know, that's one problem we have, especially with Facebook, is that, you know, all the people, all the forces out there that are trying to, you know, get you to think their way or buy their products or everything are on

mass on Facebook. And unfortunately, you know, we're finding out in America, at least that

Facebook has alkylorythms that basically, you know, take the more angry things and put them

to the top of your list. Right. And because they found out that, you know, negative angry

posts sells more product, you know, they, they get, you know, their advertisers get more clicks

And so they make more money. And, you know, as we found out Monday when they were down for six hours, you know, they you know, I saw in one news report that they are losing three hundred million dollars an hour

You know, when they were down. And so just think about just promoting that negative stuff, how that really, you know, gets more advertising money

Right. And and and that's quite frankly, I know a lot of people like Facebook and especially people from other countries like India and places like that

But, you know, unless I'm wrong, you know, Twitter doesn't do that. Right

Twitter is just a continuous feed, you know, top down. They don't put things at the top. They try to, you know, try to get you to buy products or, you know, think of one political way or something like that

So that's kind of why I basically like Twitter, because it's more of just promoting things

Oh, there you are. Yeah, sorry. I'm using a new laptop. Something is going on here

Yeah. And funny thing is, I was using this. It wasn't working

So it was nice to see you, buddy. Yeah. No, he had a good point, right

Social media has very good use, right? if we use it as a tool, not as a lifestyle, right

So, you know, people follow us. We connect on social media. We share photos and all that

So as long as we don't go on Instagram and fall for those addictive, you know, feeds

because we're going to keep feeding you more and more. So as long as we manage our time right, that's how we need to do

Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, before you brought me on, I was thinking about social media

And one of the things that really, really irritates me about people who are addicted to social media, you know, because when I was on Facebook, I have to admit, I was a little bit addicted to it

But there are some people that are so addicted to it, they literally can't not check their phone every two minutes

Right. Yeah. And and and this really bugs me, especially when I'm on a date

you know if i'm on a first date with somebody right and and they start looking at their phone

every two minutes you know that's the last date yeah right because i don't want to i don't want

to be with anybody that is living their life through social media and that's all they can

pay attention to right yeah and this becomes your habit at one point right so when where are you

joining us from just tell us a little bit what do you do where are you joining us from

Right now, I am living in Malaysia. In the last lockdown, I stuck here

Right now, the lockdown is not open. In India, you have to do a fully vaccination

I am stuck in Malaysia and right now, I am living in Malaysia

Oh wow! For a year or so? That long? Yeah, two years

Wow! Can you imagine? Stuck in Malaysia for two years. Well, hopefully you're enjoying it, you know

Oh, there you go. Yeah. It's a hotel room? No, no. Okay

All right. Hey, listen, that's what it is, the world of remote

That's what world of remote is, you know. I just want to say real quick before we, you know, move off this topic is that

I mean, move off of what we're talking about right now is that, you know, the problem with social media that i see you know not only with social media but phones themselves

is you know people become addicted to it and just like any other drug they don't realize it

right yeah yeah and even when you even when you confront them with it it's like talking to a drug

addict well yeah they don't realize because remember our breath away our brain works and

I'm doing a lot of study research on our mind brain, like physically it works is really whatever you do a lot

It start thinking that that's the truth. That's the real. That's how brain is

Okay. It's very simple. Our brain is designed to make us happy

It wants to, you may be, you know, there are killers, right

Killers don't think they're the bad people because their mind convinced them that they are doing the right thing

They were supposed to do that. They had no choice. So it makes so many excuses. this mind makes so many excuses for you yes um and I want to have more discussion on mind how it

works along other this point but today I want to focus on social media and I want to learn from

people who are watching this like why are you on social media if you are doing something productive

but the biggest problem with social media comes is when it start you start reading something

you start affecting your real life. And then you start thinking like I'm fighting in real life

You yell literally, sometimes you're posting on social media, but in your mind you're yelling at somebody

That not good No and I was doing that way too much And when our last president was in office Right Yeah And it really affected me in a bad way And that why I basically got off of Facebook last last summer It because I realized just how much Facebook is contribute contributing to my anger Yeah And my frustration Right

so i compare this this is a something i compare i compare our body a human body

as a computer right yeah it's like no different if you think biological computer yeah it's more

complex and all that so whatever information you read you see you watch you listen it goes in our

brain brain start making the okay calculations start putting our program is running and then it

say it's bad good and all that right so it's important to filter out the bad information

especially that start running your computer so fast and start consuming your memory so you're

out of memory so you gotta figure this way out anything you read or you listen or you watch

that's making you mad angry frustrated you gotta stay out of that yeah or not do it all the time

It's not worth. Yeah, it's not worth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So and okay, so there's a question for you for spending actually Simon says, what do

you think about YouTube membership that doesn't show ads on video? Is that reducing the revenue generated by creators

You only can answer that question. Actually membership is like a best way to do it

For example, I make videos on Bitcoin, blockchain technology, crypto and all those things

So some of like contributors, for example, if I want to predict the Bitcoin price

like tomorrow the Bitcoin can take this particular instance or something. and i can make like some plan you will get the early access or like i have some announcement and

i want to do like a some monetization because of like a with the help of monetization or with the

help of you can say membership i can make the plans like if you will pay me 200 rupees then you will

get the early access so something like i think uh membership is good but like everyone cannot afford

Yeah, definitely. But in the membership, I think 40% or 30% YouTube cut the money

I see. We need to learn more on that. We need to get more on that call. You need

help on that even from C-sharp corner side. So there's another question from

Abhishek and it's more like a comment that yes, social media thrives on

sensation. Yes, correct. And here's the thing, right? Yeah, here's the thing

anything that is hard to do okay and that is not really spicy our brain says yeah it's hard do you

really want to do that but if you look at all the people who are the successful people like

mvps all that they have made their habit that they don't they will work hard right so

and so that's one point i want to put here we can discuss this together and i want to see what

people think. Other point is that social media, it says social, right? And here's the funny thing

All social media platforms are created by people who are not social at all. They were nerds

How can you expect a nerd to create a social media platform? What do you think they would create

Yeah, look at Mark Zuckerberg. Every time I look at that guy, he looks like a pedophile

you know i just look at him and i'm just waiting to hear that they're going to arrest him right

we should not do that they're gonna are we gonna go to jail soon

but point is that a nerd who are never social in their life right they are creating social

media platforms that's why he created it yeah like he created social media so he can look at

girls and say who's hot, who's not because he could not find a real girlfriend in life

And now we expect these people to kind of control our lives. And that's what these platforms are

that's they what reflect. Social media is not social, if you want social life

you need to go in real because we are social people, humans are social animals

We need social interactions. We cannot be machines. So we have to, if you want to feel happy and satisfied for long term in your life, you have to find a real social life

Yeah, because if you're on social media, you're not really being social. That's a bad word, right

You're not being social on there, right? Unless you're on a group chat or something like that

But that's not socialista, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Social is in person, really, if you ask me about social

You're being anti-social when you're on a social media platform. Right? Yeah

And then other thing a lot of research are saying is that on social media

it's easy to say bad things to people when you are not in person

because they just did research on, you know, you don't look at them

you don't feel about them, there's no expressions, nothing. You can just post whatever

Right. and that's what kids are having problem at least in the u.s is that a lot of kids in high school

and younger kids they are posting stuff on social media they are mean and it's impacting other kids

who are in this kind of there's a lot of suicides happen because of that reason and facebook does

not share this information with anybody right and people are you know people i i saw you know i saw

this early this week on a show where this person talked about

their transgender friend came out and was being hounded by

transgender people on social media and she eventually committed suicide. It's because of social media

If social media wasn't there, it would have happened. Right. And so people are, you know, not only is all these things coming out now in America, at least about just how bad, you know, Instagram and social and Facebook is for for young women

Right. Yeah. It causes deaths. I mean, and I hate to say that, but, you know, it's that's the problem

Right. It's because people think that's real. Social media is not real. It's it's virtual. It's not. It's to me, it's kind of fake

It's definitely not real. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And to take everybody's opinion

And I mean, it's hard for anybody, especially introverts like ourselves. But, you know, when somebody flames us on social media, it's hard

It hard to deal with because we not used to it And and but but you right The problem one of the biggest problems with social media is it allows people to hide behind a firewall

and say whatever they want, right? Yeah. And I'm not limiting that to only social media

You know, I've heard horrible things happening on like, what's that site everybody shares a code on

GitHub, Reddit. No, Reddit. Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow. Yeah, Stack Overflow and Reddit

I mean, you know, men are being awful towards women on those things, right

So Stack Overflow, I noticed a long time ago. Yes, I'm not a Stack Overflow

I think I posted one thing on Amazon. I'm not on it either. Long, long time ago, I posted one thing

When I know, what I noticed there is that if you are a beginner, you are trying to just jump in

And you, like, I came from India. I you know I didn't know how to write good English if you by chance write something anything that not

professional they start come after you and they and this is there's a lot of young people they

got disappointed there because it's not it's not a community it's not really it's managed by a bunch

of nerds who want to show how great they are because they learn how to write coding programming

how to write algorithms that's not what make you a good person that's not what make you expert

because you learn a programming language and you know how to write code that makes you expert

i don't think so that's why our c-sharp corner we kept it totally separate our focus was

to figure out how we can help young people who really need help not the one who already

getting a lot of help if you're already getting help that's fine because you don't need help

people who don't have guidance, who need help, who don't even have money, right

That's the reason we created this platform, where if somebody learned from it and they have enough time

want to give back and help other people, that's the idea. And that's what real community is

Yeah, right. And so I want to ask this real quick because I haven't got any response from Facebook and Twitter

but you know i've i've i've asked all my followers on facebook and twitter if i delete my account

would you be sad if i delete my facebook account would you be upset and so far i haven't got any

reply back so no reply usually if there's no reply it means they don't care you can delete it

so at this point unless like somebody makes a comment in this chat you know at the end of this

month i'm deleting facebook completely and i'm going to be like you you know i'm not getting

anything out of it anyway. Right. Yeah. And I think, I mean, so Pushpinder is a perfect example

He uses social media the right way. Right. Okay. He is making as a business out of it. He's like

a big influencer in the crypto market. Right. And he has followers. So that's what you, if anybody's

trying to use social media, think of that. Is it going to help me in my somehow in my growth

making me income making me more money helping me learn more new things and that's then it's a

perfect use of social media yeah um Simon asked me a question like what's up with my Instagram

so I'll tell you my Instagram story um I joined Instagram because in America all high schools

they sports and all that everything happens on Instagram yeah all the sports athletes they are

on Instagram. So when my son is playing their team and their videos, everything is really uploaded

on Instagram. So that's why I'm there. So I can get up to date if he's scoring his highlights

And that's something I cannot give up. So I deleted my Instagram, but then I had to go back

because that's where school updates, where the schedule is, where the next game is. So even you

want to leave, you cannot leave. Yeah, there are situations like that. And even when my kids were

you know, teenagers, I joined things I really didn't really want to just so I could keep an

eye on them. Yeah, exactly. And so yeah, but you know, after, you know, after they became adults

you know, when I turned 18, then I didn't have to worry about that anymore. And I got off all that

stuff. Right? Yep. Yep. Yep. So that's where my Instagram story is. So yeah, I mean, we might say

that social media sucks but yes there there is a purpose when things like that you know like what

you're describing that you kind of have to do it um but just do it wisely and not get sucked into

it that's the problem it's it's just like a problem it's just like a drug it's just like cigarettes

all of a sudden you're knee deep into it and you don't even know it it's it's it's not i mean yeah

it's like drinking alcohol but alcohol is not even that addictive it's because the accessibility

right right it's not accessible to you 24 7 even if it is you can it will going to affect your body

also your social people if they say you start going to you know pub and start drinking every

day and night even your friends going to tell you and social media is just you and your phone

nobody can stop you right you can go in the bathroom you can do in the car you can do everywhere

so that's the biggest problem is accessibility and whenever you feel like bored oh let me look

at what's going on here yeah but the one thing i want to bring up and i don't know if everybody

knows this but um at least on the iphone and i would say um the other phones have the same

capability is that if you have a social media app on your phone and you and you want to limit your

time and and doing that is hard because they try to addict you right yeah but on the iphone at least

you can set up time limits on any app that at 30 minutes

like I have one social media app or two social media apps on my phone

And one of them I limit to 30 minutes a day. That's it. And it cuts me off at 30 minutes and then I go, okay, I'm done

You know, No, that's anything else. Puswinder, you want to plug in last before we close this down

your sound is not clear. So, you want to be a little closer

To highlight something. So, in the social media, actually, we can also use in the right way

something like this. Let's say I want customized feed. Customized feed in the sense

I want some .NET update as well. I want some news update. And I want also

I want to follow also Elon Musk to check whether he is reporting in the doggy coin or not

So, I have set my custom feed. Let's say some coin price is increasing, so I want to check that one

So I am right now connected directly to main source. So I am not believing like a third party media

So let's say like a proteinian prime minister announced something. So media will highlight in the like every length

Then first they will give you the click with title. After that we will click on that one

Then after that we will see 10, 20 ads. Then we will know actual what our PM said but with the help of directly following so we will get the within a few characters we will get all the information whatever we need

So this is some of the positive points that will be available

And if I compare Facebook, Insta, so Twitter is far better. So in Twitter

whenever you will report something, Twitter generally blocks that account. So this is some good point

And as well as in the COVID situation, I did help a lot of people directly because I am not in India

But with the help of white tweeting and white tweeting to ministers and all those

So, that is also good points. But bad points is everywhere. So, sometimes social media can also, right now, like a lot of good information

That's a very good point. We should do another show like how to make good use of social media

That's why we should have these tips. These are the things. This is good

Very good point, Puswendra. I agree. If you are smart enough to not get sucked into that

you can also... Social media is very useful. And you said, we are right here because of social media

You can arrange your own plans, you can do something like if you are an influencer, you can create your marketplace there

There are a lot of things. Sometimes what happens in the general life or in another way, we can not directly reach to very big people

With the help of social media, there are many ways. Right now I'm connected with some of like a very good programmer, some of Microsoft people or some of people like Scuse. So this is happening because of social media. If I do not Twitter, definitely people will not be able to connect

So, yeah. Now, here's the difference here is that successful people will always find a way to get successful because they know how to utilize their time effective way

The only problem is when these young guys, teenagers kiss, they are getting sucked into that

They don't focus on all the things you just said. They only focus on what my friend said, what their friend said, what kind of picture should I look at, what video should I watch

that's the problem problem is not us like we already know how to manage our lives and we have

things right but this is the problem is the next generation they are already if you look at the

kids i watched my son his friends and all that when you look at them 10 people's kids sitting

in the room all they are on the phones nobody's talking to each other they're texting each other

on the phone and chat what they're saying so the scientists here are saying that the next generation

will not even know how to effectively communicate yeah using voice they will only communicate through

apps that's the that's the bigger problem yeah and that's really that worries the worries me and

that's what we're worrying a lot of people well even when my even when my kids were teenagers

they didn't talk on the phone they just text it that now it's worse now it's worse it's worse now

right yeah so and um but so that's the point anyway it's going to affect their health it's

going to affect eyes because screen time and all that. With that said, guys, I think we took already

too much time. So with that, Puswender, thank you so much for coming. I know it was due. I'll bring

you again on some crypto and blockchain talks in future. I appreciate you coming and being available

all the time. And David, thank you so much. Any last thing you want to say in there

Yeah. The last thing I want to say real quick is, is, you know, my feeling, you know, at least, and I'm saying this as somebody who lives in America, but there's very little content, technical content I see on Facebook, right

Yeah. Most most of the technical content is being promoted, even by Microsoft is on Twitter

And so my my suggestion to all of you, if you don't have a Twitter account, you should get one, because to me, that's really where the technical content is, not Facebook

Twitter and LinkedIn are I. LinkedIn is also you can connect with professional people

send messages. And they don't exploit the algorithms how Instagram and Facebook are doing

They don't get involved in politics, right? They don't get involved in religion. Go ahead

One more thing. Twitter has one option. Let's say you are seeing some

information which you don't like. So you can click on that one. After that

they will not show you such kind of information. For example, some celebrity pick is coming and you are playing, I don't want to see this

So they ask for a small feedback. So once you click on that, then you will not see the input

This is one of the political points. In the setting also, one option is there, let's say some account is new, and you don't want to see that kind of tweet

So you can uncheck that option. So you can see potential tools

Twitter also ads very less. One ad

in a scroll kind of, yeah. Well, I was about to tell everybody this

I found this out the hard way. The only evil thing that Twitter does, right

and I know they do this because it happened to me, is

I started getting sick of their ads, right? So I started deleting the ads that I saw, you know, and you know what they did

They showed me more ads. I'm serious. And it took a couple of weeks for them to stop showing me so many ads

So don't delete the ads on Twitter because they'll show you more. Because they're trying to figure out which ad you like so they can then show you only those

Yeah. Good part is I'm searching for car now, electric car, and all ads I see is electric cars

And so good thing is I'm now learning more about new electric cars coming out

So anyway, yeah, I mean, end of the day, social media can be good and bad, but you have to figure out what works for you and what is useful

And that's the message here, you know, I don't think we can get rid of those

They are part of our lives now. So both of you, thank you so much for coming on this Friday

Enjoy your weekend and talk soon. OK, see you later. Thank you

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