Joe Rogan - Elon Musk on His Twitter Usage

I'm on social media. Now deleting social media from your applications, from your phones, that give you a 10% boost to happiness was within the percentages. I think probably something like that. Yeah, good 10%. Yeah, I mean, I mean, the only thing I've kept is Twitter because I kind of like need some means of getting a message out, you know, right. That's about it. So far, so good. Well, what's interesting with you, you actually occasionally engage with people on Twitter. Yeah, it's what percentage of that is a good idea? Good question. 10%. It's hard. It's mostly I think it's unbalanced more good than bad, but there's definitely some bad. So do you ever hopefully the good outweighs the bad? Do you ever think about how odd it is the weird feeling that you get when someone says something shitty to you on Twitter and you read it, the weird feeling is weird little negative jolt. It's like a subjective negative jolt of energy. You don't really need to absorb but you do anyway. Well, fuck this guy. Fuck him. I mean, there's a lot of negativity on Twitter. It is, but it's a weird it's in its form like the way if you ingest it as if you're like you try to be like a little scientist as you're ingesting it. You're like, well, how weird is this? And I'm even getting upset at some strange person saying something mean to me. It's not even accurate. I mean, the vast number of negative comments. So the vast for the vast majority of I just ignore them the vast majority. Yeah, but every now and again get drawn in. I'm good. It's not good. Make mistakes. Yes, you can make mistakes. You make some mistakes. We're all human. We can make mistakes. Yeah, it's hard and people love it when you say something and you take it back and they're like, fuck you. We saved it forever. We fucking screenshot that shit, bitch. You had that thought. You had that thought. Like, well, I deleted it. Not good enough. You had the thought. I'm better than you. I never had that thought. You had that thought, you piece of shit. Look, I saved it. I put it on my blog. Yeah. I'm not sure why people think that that anyone would think that deleting a tweet makes it go away. It's like, hello, been the internet for a while. Yeah. Well, it's even like anything is they don't forever you to be able to delete it because the problem is if you don't delete it and you don't believe it anymore, it's really hard to say, hey, that thing above, I don't really believe that anymore. I changed the way I view things because people go, well, fuck you are have that over there. I'm going to just take that. I'm not going to pay attention to that shit you wrote underneath. It's on your permanent record forever, bro. Like high school. We'll put this on your permanent record. Yeah. It's like a tattoo. You keep it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, it's this thing where there's a lack of compassion. It's a lack of compassion issue. People are just intentionally shitty to each other all the time online and trying to catch. Yeah. It's they're more trying to catch people doing something that's arrestable, like a cop trying to get arrests on his record. It's like they're trying to catch you or something more than they're logically looking at it, thinking it's a bad thing that you've done or that it's an idea they don't agree with so much they need to insult you trying to catch you. Yeah. I mean, it's way easier to be mean on social media than it is to be mean in person. Yes. Way easier. Yeah. Yes. It's weird. It's not a normal way of human interacting. It's cheating. We're not supposed to be able to interact so easily with people we're not looking at. Yes. You would never do that. You don't be so mean to someone you look in their eyes. And if you did, you'd feel like shit. Most people. Yeah. Unless you're a sociopath, you'd feel terrible. Yes.