00:00 Hi, I'm Theo Hewson-Betts and today I'm going to be out on the streets of Preston asking
00:03 people about their views on social media. That's because this week marks the 20th anniversary
00:09 of Facebook being launched and the beginning of the social media age. I want to find out
00:13 if people think that that's been a good thing for the world or a bad.
00:17 So 20 years on then now from when Facebook was launched in the first place, do you think
00:21 that in your opinion it's been a good thing for mankind or do you think that it's a negative?
00:27 I would say Facebook has been a positive in terms of the ability to connect with people
00:33 all around the world and it has a bit more regulation from previous social media spaces
00:41 like Myspace where there was no, there wasn't much regulation. However now with the rise
00:47 of Instagram and TikTok it has taken away a lot of the light from Facebook and Facebook
00:53 may be seen as more of an old people website or a millennial website than...
01:00 20 years since the launch of Facebook, what's your opinion on how much that launch, the
01:05 start of the social media age, has changed the world?
01:08 Well to be honest, social media has its perks and its obviously bad at the same time. Obviously
01:16 everything nowadays is on social media. If you go out you post on social media, if you
01:22 go on holiday you put your holiday pics on social media. Then also you get the front
01:26 end of it, you get some people who negatively use it by insulting people and abusing people.
01:34 You see in the football nowadays, if someone makes an error, immediately people go to the
01:39 comments and go "oh you cost us this" and start going in on their families. But in reality
01:46 people make mistakes and I think social media for that reason, at the moment, as much as
01:52 it does good, I don't think there's enough regulation of it to outweigh the negatives.
01:58 Cool, so I'll put you on the spot then and we'll zip back 20 years. You've got a button
02:02 in front of you that can kill Facebook, can kill the advent of social media. Knowing what
02:07 you know now, in the position we are now with social media, do you press that button or
02:10 no? Yeah I'd press it. I mean at the end of the day, just think now, we've lived with
02:21 social media, I'm 21, I would have been one when it came out. All my life's been revolved
02:28 around social media so thinking of life without it would be very strange. Yeah, if there were
02:35 things I could change about it I would, but no. That's the view that we got today from
02:41 the people on the street. What are your thoughts on social media? Are there things you would
02:44 change? Let us know in the comments down below.
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