Chris Hayes Says Social Media Is Wreaking Psychological Havoc on People

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Published on October 14, 2021

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15 comments

  • Micah Pratt 3 years ago

    Listen to Jonathan haight.

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  • Annie 3 years ago

    Chris Hayes isn’t making this up. When you look at how people on FB believe the propaganda they’re reading it’s pathetic.

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  • Luke Taylor 3 years ago

    This was the exact topic of my thesis that I submitted this week. We are experiencing what I call “the death of nuance” (what Chris calls psychological havoc) when it is easier to throw out comments and ideas we would never say in face-to-face conversation with those we know, with no immediate repercussions in sight. Anyone differing from our own views can be painted with a brush that states they’re extreme and unlike us. We can’t go back to a time without this interconnectedness, but we can use our awareness of these issues to act better in these online public spaces.

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  • foed spaghetti 3 years ago

    And we are watching this on?

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  • Paul Henry 3 years ago

    We have invented artificial insanity.

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  • kilroy987 3 years ago

    Social Media always has. Clickbait and deceptive titles and images to get clicks and views, misinformation, providing open channels for people to flood their wing views upon everyone else, cyberbullying.
    A random person being mean to you is no different than someone who decides to bully you at school while everyone else is being nice. Things like that happened 40 years ago. Things are no different today, it just happens in a venue where it happens 10x more often and more easily.

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  • Gabe 3 years ago

    “Having someone you don’t know know you – a stranger seeing you, knowing you, surveilling you, is fundamentally alien and alienating.” That was brilliant Chris! In one sentence you summed up why I’ve been off social media platforms for 10+ years now. Even then I could sense the dangers inherent to Facebook. The “dopamine hit” of having people “like” your comments and increasing your entourage of “friends” who only know the prettiest version of “you” possible. Yeah……if that’s being “social” then I haven’t used enough “quotations” in this “post.” (EDIT: please “like” this post since I lack FB to validate my caveman existence).

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  • Jeff Magnato 3 years ago

    No Chris Hayes, Covid, Climate change, Republicans, Putin, China, Facebook, the Russian Puppet, never ending forrest fires, Dems failures, Kavanaugh, the maniac barbie in Congress, mass shootings…

    Being woke sucks. Our plates are full. I mean, now Rachel Maddow’s moles are acting up? Enough.

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  • Tim Gill 3 years ago

    MainStream Media trying to censor Journalism . Hayes is a corporate Chump

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  • Alex Brunk 3 years ago

    “High school never ends”, but monetize it.

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  • oldsesalt 3 years ago

    I’m glad I grew up pre-internet. I knew the other kids were out doing things and I wasn’t invited. But at least they didn’t rub it in my face on social media.

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  • Morty Sanchez 3 years ago

    I love Chris Hayes- best talk show guest, great author, great show host

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  • Jon Lundfelt 3 years ago

    Man, Rachel Maddow put on some weight

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  • Sherry Ellesson 3 years ago

    Love Chris Hayes, and kudos for the article in the New Yorker, one of the last publications to actually edit effectively and present cogent thought with correct grammar, syntax and spelling.

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  • Robert Scott 3 years ago

    yes, it is. It’s surveillance of our friends & family, destruction of privacy, destruction of self. Shut it down.

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