07/25/2025
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.
