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what's the deal with palms new thing and which social network is the absolute worst for you well hey everyone I'm Jeff agar welcome to nope sorry the scenic debate show where I argue with my friends and colleagues over three rounds of dead serious cutthroat debate joining me today on the show senior reporter Ben Fox Ruben what's up Ben hello hello little-known fact been invented his own middle name who the hell do you think you are certainly not Ben Wolfe Ruben here's how the game works at the end of each round will be given five points between the two of us depending on who made their case the best assigning those points all the way from San Francisco our own Vanessa and oreonna how are you hey guys thanks for having me on the show you are quite welcome thank you for judging us I think we're ready to start our first topic Vanessa please take it away all right excited to judge both of you on the answer for this one palm is back and it's got a new device that is supposed to take us away from our phones it looks like a mini iPhone it's kind of cute but I want to know what you guys think of this what's the deal with the new palm thing is it a lifesaver or is it completely not useful at all go I like the idea I think this is a good idea the digital detox wave is coming Google's talking about it Apple's talking about it and now there's an idea of an actual device to push forward this idea of not constantly being on your phone every single conversation we have these days somebody's got their their face all up in their phone this is this is a good way to push that concept forward I would think the answer to less tech usage is not smaller actual devices for tech usage this is a phone for your phone I feel like I'm crazy I feel like I'm the only idiot on earth who realizes what we're being sold here it's a really bad idea I don't think it saves anyone any time and who the hell are you to buy 350 dollar prom that's your phone but not really your phone answer me that okay I will give you the fact that the price is a little too high and maybe the execution isn't quite there but I'm on board with the philosophy here I think that they've got the right message out there maybe they're gonna get it right a little bit more in second go-round but there's not gonna be a second one Ben you and I both know that well I also think that they're pushing forward with the retro is cool so tom is back maybe they'll get some excitement about that too so hopefully they've got these two things going for them and we'll see a million years I'm never gonna say which phone do I have to bring the vector we had freed sell for that Vanessa how are the points shaking out that round then I am so sorry this is not looking good for you I think you're only good argument with the retro bring back the palm thing I'm gonna I'm just gonna give you one for that the rest I'm gonna have to agree with you Jeff we don't need more tech to get your tech addiction in check especially not like a miniature version of your phone which costs $350 so four points for Jeff on this one all right thanks a lot Vanessa that's a tough one that's it is honestly it's like you you were handicapped from the start there it's not your fault that's it's crazy that we had a choose sides for that all right time for the second topic Vanessa please take it away all right next topic alongside the pixel three and a pixel three XL Google also launched an interesting feature called call screening which basically can answer your spam calls for you and transcribe the message to answer back what is your take on this is this a useful feature or is it kind of creepy I think that this is a bad thing because yeah I think it's a bad thing why are you surprised by this go for it oh no I just think like where are we at now where we're we're basically using a computer to talk to another computer I just think it's an evolution of our emoji language obsessed culture that we can't be god forbid we test with actual interaction with people I realize a lot of this is for spam filtering and stuff like that but you know people are gonna abuse it you know it's never going to work out in a way that is productive and we just have nothing but a dark future to look forward to because now my robot is going to be talking to your robot and we'll never hear human voice ever again okay step back from from the cliff of doom and despair okay if you're in a band if you're in a meeting and your buddy or your wife or the gardener wants to call you and you just use the feature it's a pretty simple feature just tell them hey this is Google everything's cool why don't you tell me what's going on in you get you get a quick transcription so you don't have to worry about this whole FOMO situation oh my god the phone's ringing I'm not sure who it is and I'm not sure what they want it's if you look at it just as face value of what it is instead of diving into this entire sad abyss of doom then you know you use it oh okay sorry for that ridiculous sound good we can't we can't get rid of it Vanessa what do you think there I don't think either of you had a very good argument so can i I disagree with you you're not getting points for that I'm getting because you guys didn't touch upon the most important feature which is the fact that you can have the robots talk to the robots and I mean you've talked about it deaf and a bad way but that's a good thing because I want to spam people to talk to their own people and yeah you all right how the point shakeout Vanessa two to it one for me Wow I respect that all right we're gonna have to make a new graphic for that all right finally round three the deciding around what's the topic there Vanessa all right guys so the score is Jeff six been three so Ben you really have to blow this one out of the for the final round we're going to talk about social media in general so I feel like it's come to make the world a better place but also ruin the world at the same time so I want to hear from you guys which one of all of them is the absolute worse oh that's an easy one it's Facebook Facebook is the worst there's no wrong answer they can't take care of your data properly they've had all these data breaches Cambridge analytic Oh was a huge problem and then in the middle of the whole thing they decide to try to sell you a smart display what's the matter with them has something gone wrong with Mark Zuckerberg he's clearly malfunction yeah and on top of that I'm having a conversation with my wife and then I lose her into the Facebook app it's too much work so much would please I didn't get away from it all right you I agree I'm gonna say I agree with the Facebook but I'm gonna say Instagram is the worst of all the social networks only because you talk about that black hole that Facebook has for people the black hole that Instagram creates is inescapable I'm talking about people walking into the street I'm talking about people driving and scrolling through the answer it's the act of being so easily scrollable and and digestible that is ruining the world let's not even forget to mention the fact that every single Instagram post that you see on a feed is a complete fabrication of someone's real life this is the they are curating their own false representation of their life and it is making us all in this crazy competition with one another and it is ripping apart the fabric of society in a way that not even facebook can touch oh okay wow I don't think I don't think I'm gonna win that no I just what happened just give it to Jack deaf I love your enthusiasm on this one and I'm gonna have to agree and add to your comment by saying that the hashtag for the grand pictures are literally making people jump off cliffs to get that perfect shot so while I do like your enthusiasm and it's a good point I'm only gonna give you two points only because Facebook messed up so bad in 2018 that I think they deserved the prize for the worst social network of this year not to say that the black hole of Instagram is not going to be the worst one next year but they're both pretty awful yeah so two and three okay very good that would make the final score eight to six me this was a great round I really have to say thank you that makes me the winner what did I win oh something in a Dunkin Donuts bag water oh I got a freaking blood they put munchkins in Donuts now are you serious oh dude I'm gonna split this with you Ben wait do you want a lady in the truth no okay here we'll split this for later thank you so very much - Ben thank you so much - Vanessa in San Francisco hey why don't you like and subscribe to the Siena channel and if you want to submit a topic for next week's show pop it in the comment section below until next time thank you so very much for watching you