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Sometimes we have to get real on this podcast. It\'s really up for debate whether this episode qualifies considering I started it with a musical number from the 1950s. Anywho, lately I\'ve felt like there\'s been such a hive-mind opinion that social media is this evil creature that is taking over the world and that there aren\'t actual people behind it causing the problems that just happen to display on social media. There\'s a yin-and-yang to the digital world and cackling maniacally from its dark tower (not the Stephen King series, his endings tend to leave a lot to be desired), and too often I think people ignore the benefits of our connected digital world, and only seem to be focused on the negative and trying to eradicate it. Maybe it\'s a good thing to be cautious and skeptical, but it doesn\'t mean the good-side doesn\'t exist, and that we can\'t have hope to improve it even more. 

Plus, social media allowed us to take polls on some of the food fights in E75, so Laura came back on the pod to settle those in the outro this week.

If we\'re doing an episode on social media I\'m damn well plugging my channel without needing a joke to hide behind. Oh God, does this Meta statement count as a joke? Does me capitalizing the "M" in meta a.k.a. the Facebook parent company count as a reference that could make someone blow air out of the nose in place of a laugh, which could potentially constitute this as a tiny little joke? If I said baby joke there, would you have imagined a family of jokes that has a child, potentially in a stroller with a boxing glove on it to represent the punch line? Now I want to go watch Rocky 3. All this and more @thelink_podcast on Twitter and Instagram.

Until next time...

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