Two Percent with Michael Easter: Is Social Media Addiction Real?

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential addiction of social media and its impact on teen mental health with insights from Taylor Lorenz.

TechStuff presents Two Percent with Michael Easter , a twice-weekly deep dive into the science of living better by doing things the hard way.  In this episode of the podcast, Taylor Lorenz of the Substack User Mag and host of podcast Power User joins Michael to discuss whether social media should be considered addictive. Together, they look at the real science on dopamine, the recent Meta verdict from Los Angeles, Section 230, KOSA, looksmaxxing, and what's actually driving the teen mental health conversation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Michael Easter

Guest: Taylor Lorenz

Topics covered

• social media addiction
• dopamine
• teen mental health
• Meta verdict
• Section 230
• KOSA
• looksmaxxing

Keywords

• social media
• addiction
• dopamine
• teen mental health
• Meta
• KOSA
• looksmaxxing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Substack, Meta, Los Angeles, KOSA

Books & works: Power User

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