Facebook

Described as a platform that radicalizes the elderly and contributes to their mental decline.

“Growing engagement for users 45 to 65." How, how... Do you go on Facebook? No. Do you know anyone really engaged on Facebook? My parents. That's right. [laughs] That... No, it's true. I don't know where they're getting tri- But then maybe they're talking about…”

Described as a space that incentivizes elderly users to fight and become isolated.

“And that's how people get old now. They get old on the internet, and they spend their golden years, the last years on this planet where they still have moving legs and they can still walk, they spend it shut in their home on Facebook talking about Iran. That's…”

Discussed as a platform that is losing relevance and facing scrutiny for its impact on user mental health.

“Okay, so all right, kill this. Just to give you a refresher course of what the Metaverse was. Now find this article here where it is, um, his New York Times article about Facebook dying, uh, Meta dying, which is, owns Facebook. It's on Drudge. And, you know, I…”

Cited as a platform that negatively impacts older users' relationships with their families.

“The, the people I know who got introduced to Facebook later in their lives no longer speak to their children. They no longer speak to their families. They've had Facebook for 10 years. Their, their children won't bring the grandkids to the house anymore.”

Used as an example of a platform where family conflicts and blocking occur.

“Do you know how many people I know on Facebook or whatever and that have told me, "I've blocked my mother. She c- I, she cannot reach me on the internet. If she wants, she can call me. I have blocked her. I do not wanna see what she posts. I don't wanna see wh…”

Discussed as a platform that previously hosted viral games like FarmVille, which eventually suffered from player fatigue.

“In 2010, when Facebook was still relatively young, FarmVille drew eighty-three million monthly players. With Facebook taking a thirty percent cut on all in-game purchases, this generated enough cash to reshape Facebook's business model. By 2012, when Facebook …”

Jonathan Knight worked on live games for this platform during his time at Zynga.

“I was the general manager at Zynga, running big teams that were doing live Facebook games and eventually mobile games. I worked on the FarmVille franchise as a GM. I ran Words With Friends for a while at Zynga. I've done a lot of things in my career. I worked …”

Used by Cole's father to find contact information for Cole's coworker.

“So he, he at least has a name, Steven, right?So Chris didn't have his number, but like lightning, he looks through Cole's Facebook friends, finds Steven, says like, "Call me ASAP."”

The platform where Jason McDermott posted a tribute that investigators found suspicious.

“The Facebook post rubbed me for sure the wrong way. I'm like, there's just no way. I don't even know this guy. Like, this just-”

The social media platform that provided location data used to track the suspect.

“So detectives secured longitude and latitude coordinates from Daniel's Facebook account that they say place him at his mother's house at the time they believe that Violet was killed. And I have to say, this is one of those moments in the hour where I went, "Wh…”

Used by the prosecution to track Daniel's location via account coordinates.

“Well, there's not one piece of smoking gun evidence. The prosecution, and we hear this all the time, had to put together the puzzle, you know, the evidence to paint a picture. Uh, they pointed to Daniel's own timeline of where he said he was and where he reall…”

Mentioned as a platform where the host previously hosted a live discussion with an expert.

“As always, like, Black women are my North Star, and so even during the COVID pandemic, I was kinda looking at, like, this panel of Black women epidemiologists and public health people as the people I could go to for credible information. And so Dr. Titonji, wh…”

Cited as a platform where older voters consume political content.

“One other thing related to, you know, Trump's political power with his own party is Thomas Massie's primary in Kentucky four is tomorrow. I've been discussing this a lot. Just wanted to, to flag it again. His poll numbers are looking better than Cassidy's, I t…”

Compared to the potential of BlackBerry Messenger as a dominant social media platform.

“What, what Facebook and WhatsApp became. That's correct.”

Used as a benchmark for revenue comparison against BlackBerry's services business.

“We're talking twenty eleven, and, um, a couple things were going on. Um, one, our hardware business had grown a lot, but it was under pressure, huge pressure, and there were new, uh, o-operating systems, one from Apple and one from Google, that were putting tr…”

Listed as one of the social media platforms where the host maintains a presence.

“not already following me on social media, I am hubermanlab on all social media platforms. So that's Instagram, X, Threads, Facebook, and LinkedIn. And on all those platforms, I discuss science and science-related tools, some of which overlaps with the content …”

The podcast maintains a presence on this social media platform.

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Mentioned as a company that offers six months of paternity leave.

“Um, so a lot of it was competitive where, like, I don't know what, which company it was, but, like, Facebook says six months, and then all of a sudden Google, Spotify, all these other places that are competing for the people-”

Mentioned as a company that previously focused on identity but abandoned that strategy.

“A few things come to mind. When people think of Airbnb, if you close your eyes and say, "I want you to think of a picture of Airbnb," you probably think of a house. We're a noun and a verb like Kleenex, which is amazing and not amazing. It's amazing in that, l…”

The platform used by Kate to communicate with Angel.

“So the phone basically had stopped using her phone plan. And in case you're wondering, yes, of course, police have all of this information, too. Initially, Kelly said Fresno PD couldn't locate Angel to question him, despite getting his mom's address where she …”