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This video discusses the spread of inappropriate content on a school account, a teenager's distress over a locker room photo, school policies regarding phones, and the implications of sexting and related laws.

The video discusses the impact of cell phones on driving, introduces phantom vibration syndrome, and explains how colleges and employers use social media to research applicants.

[03:25-03:42]
Speaker presents statistics on cell phone-related car crashes, sharing a personal experience of being pulled over and mentioning the cell phone checkbox on police forms.
In fact, I got myself pulled over today, which was really, really fun, and I just remember yet again on my little ticket, I didn't get a ticket, I got the warning, but at the very top right corner it says, was there a cell phone in use? And they check the box if there is or isn't. I didn't. But I also know this on the cop side of every single time.

[03:42-03:56]
Speaker explains the evolution of the cell phone checkbox on police forms, highlighting how recent the change is.
I remember when I started as an officer, and then when I ended here recently, how there wasn't that checkbox on the form. There wasn't a cell phone checkbox, and now there is a cell phone checkbox on the form. And that wasn't very long ago. We're talking about the last 5 years.

[03:56-04:11]
Speaker introduces phantom vibration syndrome, stating that 89% of people have experienced the feeling of their phone vibrating when it wasn't.
So the next one, phantom vibration syndrome. 89 percent of people say they've had that experience where their phone shakes in their pocket, so they reach into their pocket, and yet they don't have their phone in their pocket. You know what I'm talking about? And so you guys, some of you are laughing, going, oh, that's me.

[04:11-04:26]
Speaker emphasizes that phantom vibration syndrome is a new phenomenon and discusses how colleges and employers research applicants on social media.
And so that's something that didn't exist. 15 years ago, ten years ago, this is a new phenomenon and they're still doing research on it. College and employers doing research on applicants on social media, which is a very, very interesting and very, very true.

[04:26-05:05]
Speaker shares an example of a college football coach using social media research to evaluate recruits, explaining how negative online behavior can disqualify a player.
So one of my close friends happens to be a college football coach in Michigan. They play tomorrow, so I'm really excited. And so he was telling me how last season they actually hired a guy on their staff to his whole role was to basically do research on their recruits, who they were recruiting to see what kind of presence they have online. And so if they've got 2 candidates that both, and when you're at a Division I level, you can, you've got, they're a dime a dozen, we all are the same height and the same thing, and they got 2 individuals that are close to the same, but this one throws their coach under the bus and this one talks about their players negatively or their teammates or their parents and just continues to air out dirty laundry online, They don't recruit that player.

This video explores the concept of Facebook addiction, comparing it to substance addiction, and presents a series of questions to help individuals reflect on their social media usage and potential signs of addiction.

This video explores the evolution of internet and social media, contrasting it with changes in children's activities, and highlighting the impact of overprotection.

[21:59-22:38]
Speaker presents a cartoon image, discussing how children are left with phone activities due to overprotection and the focus on everyone winning.
Everyone should win and play. You see where I'm coming from. Is this not the conversation we're having in our country over and over and over? So it makes perfect sense then that this is what they're left to. We've pulled all of those games away because we don't want kids to get hurt. We don't want kids to fail. We don't want kids to suffer like maybe we suffered. And we've left them, unfortunately, with this. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick on their phone. So that's the conversation we're having tonight. So in just 15 years, this is where we are in social media. So I jumped through the first several real quick. The Internet was founded in 1969, but really took shape in the year in the early two thousands with Wi-Fi.

[22:38-23:36]
Speaker reviews internet platform launch dates, emphasizing the rapid development of social media, and contrasts older generations' experiences with those of younger people.
So before that, you all know what I'm talking about. The dial up. That whole thing. And so now, of course, we can jump on. You can jump on McDonald's. You can jump on Starbucks. It's incredible. Google came onto the scene in 98. In 2006, they added Google it to the dictionary officially. In 2004, Facebook was born. In 2005, YouTube was born. 2006, Twitter was born. 2010, Instagram was born. So just showing you real, real briefly how new this is. You see, because most students think that this kind of stuff, you know, has been around forever, because it has been in their life. But for us, it didn't exist 15 years ago. None of it did. In fact, the first YouTube video was a guy standing at a zoo, and he's literally going, hey guys, I'm at a zoo. That was the first YouTube video posted in two thousand five, and think how far YouTube's gone now. Ask most 20somethings, what is your number one way you watch TV? They'll say YouTube Red. They don't watch TV like you and I watch TV. They don't even do Netflix as much anymore.