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I can't even start.
See how long this lasts.
What's up Socials,
I'm on my rooftop in my apartment building
in downtown Columbus and it's wonderful.
I mean, it's like wonderful in the sense
that I'm to embrace how nice it still is outside,
even though I really want it to be Fall
and I'm still forced to wear, like short sleeved shirts.
I want to wear my sweaters so bad, lady problems.
I wanted to have a chat with you today
because I thought a couple of things happened this week
that were super interesting to talk about
and just sort of give you an idea of where my head is.
First, it was announced that AOL Instant Messenger
is gonna die in December.
Like literally, it's gonna be gone.
And I was like, oh my god.
I remember being on AIM all the time in high school,
just like check in with my friends and stuff like that.
There was also some other stuff in the news
about people saying stupid things
and then when someone points it out,
that person ends up being scrutinized
because they find some Tweet that they did
a million years ago that was inappropriate
and so they also have to apologize.
I just thought, this brings up a lot of really good points.
I've always said how grateful I am to be how old I am
and that I didn't have social media in the years
that I was in school, middle school, high school.
I think it's really incredible how much it has escalated
and moved forward quickly.
It's really unfortunate, but it's also sort of a testament
to how amazing these tools can be,
ideally when you use them for good.
And when I was looking at, okay, AIM is dying,
you know I had access to AIM.
Somebody could have believed me
or I could have believed somebody
with instant messenger in high school.
I guess it just didn't happen.
I think it just depends on who is in your life
or what is happening or how you are as a person
and how you use those tools.
Regardless, I think the point is there are a lot of people
who are entering the workforce now,
whether they decide to go get a regular job
or if they decide to start their own business,
that grew up with social media
in those young adult, not quite adult years of their life
and the silly things that are being said online
are coming back to bite them.
It's funny because I've always taken that so seriously,
like what I say at any given point.
Not just now, but like years ago,
just afraid to say things that,
I don't think I should have my speech taken away from me,
my freedom of that opinion,
but I also think that there's a time and a place
to have an opinion about some things.
I've probably said some dumb things here and there,
but nothing that if I put it out there,
someone could say to me, like this is the type of person
that you are, this unfortunate, I suppose, type of person.
It's really difficult for the people that didn't think
that far forward in how social media was gonna affect them
in life and in business and in career and love
and any of these things,
they're now having to potentially go back
and do like a stalk of what they've said
because it very well could be.
You may have thought you were making some inside joke
and some @ reply to your buddy
when you were on Twitter in high school,
and then an employer is deciding
that they don't want to work with you because of that.
Also, very easy to judge other people about this.
Like, oh my god, yeah, I know people that say stupid stuff
all the time and I'm like, oh my god, you're so dumb,
you're so dumb.
But then, we still do something a little dumb,
like a little bit or sub-tweeting or under the radar,
like I'm just gonna talk a little
because no one will know the difference
and no one's really paying that much attention to me.
It's so easy to just do that I think, whatever,
because it's also sometimes hard to come up with an opinion
that's actually something you want to stand by
outside of knocking other people.
I think that's probably the biggest thing.
I did a video recently on all the things you can tweet
and fun things and things that will help you
and things that will move you forward,
but I also find myself holding back a lot of things
that I don't tweet because I think,
I have an opinion on this right now,
it is not something that I want to go on record for.
This is a press release for who I am as a human,
not just as a public figure or YouTube or anything,
just like if anything happens in the future,
someone's gonna come back and look
at this press release list
that I've had since 2000-whatever
and tell me what my opinion is on it.
Obviously we're seeing this a lot
with the President of the United States.
What is he saying in real time,
what did he say back in the day?
I also think that's why Twitter doesn't give us
an edit button, I really do.
I think they want everybody to be like, listen,
this is the only social network you can't edit anything on
because we want you to be held accountable.
So that's our differentiator right now, then (click sound).
They're holding strong on the whole no editing tweet thing.
I just find it really interesting.
Even moreso because you can't take this stuff back.
All of it is getting cached by the internet.
All of it is being saved, everything is being documented.
We're documenting everything.
I just documented my egg sandwich this morning.
If you really, really care about what people think
about you in the sense of how do you want them
to talk about you to others,
in a word of mouth, advocacy kind of way.
Not I'm consumed with what other people think of me,
but I care about how my brand is being discussed
then you really should rethink a lot of these things
that you might have tweeted
because you were annoyed in the moment
but it really doesn't play a role in your big picture.
Talk about ideas, maybe talk about events.
Talking about people,
unless it's the way that you want to be talked about,
it's not gonna be good.
It's not gonna be good in the long run.
That's what people will remember.
You remember when they were asking
for people's Facebook passwords for job applications
like six years ago or whenever it was, seven years ago,
because they were like, "We don't know how to handle
"this social media thing so we should probably
"just ask for the profiles of all the people that apply,
"to make sure they're not crazy."
There's a line, but they wouldn't have to do that
if people were just a little bit more self-aware
of what they were putting out there.
You may think your profile is private, but it's not.
It's never private.
What happens if somebody that you're friends with
because you went to high school,
recalls something negative that you posted online
and shares it with your next potential client or employer.
It's just not worth it.
You get the right to freedom of speech,
but you don't have to run your mouth.
There's a balance.
Could we just find that balance?
I just hate the fact that people can get torn down
for mistakes that they've made in the past
and the only reason why
is because people can find it on Google.
So I think that you should just give that some thought
and really think, what do I put online
because I'm bored and I want a rise out of people
that maybe I didn't have to do
because it's probably not gonna pay off for me
in the long run.
Anyway, that's what was on my mind when I was thinking,
ahhh, AOL Instant Messenger, those were the days.
Oh my god, it's crazy.
It's crazy to think about,
AOL being that first real social network in my life.
I've probably been squinting for this whole video,
but I didn't want to wear sunglasses.
It's kind of cloudy anyway.
Also, I don't hang out on this rooftop enough.
It is so nice and the more and more Vin and I
keep talking about moving,
I'm like, I need to just hang out here more often.
That's all for today, Socials thank you so much.
I appreciate it as always.
Make sure you subscribe for good vibes
and remember to think about how people talk about you
or what you would like them to do when they talk about you
so that you can go after the life you want.
Cheers.
Also I took one shoe off
because it was just like awkward sitting here.
I want to put it back on now.