Episode 81: A Zillennial’s Guide to a Social Media Detox
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Episode Description
In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah chat about the only detox they’ll endorse: a social media detox. Do you feel bad scrolling through social media? Do you find yourself comparing yourself to others? Do you experience joy while browsing social media? If you answered no to any of these, you may want to listen. The girls dive into how social media can be detrimental to your mental health and how to start your social media detox.
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Hello everybody welcome back to a brand new episode of the podcast hello everyone today we are talking
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about a very exciting topic and if you know about our topic you probably found
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us or if you know a rough star baby still a rough rough
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start if you know about our podcast you definitely know what we're about to talk about and we're talking about social
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media today and we're talking about kind of more of the side of it is if you don't have
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a great relationship with social media if you don't feel good while scrolling
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through social media if it just gives you bad vibes in general we're gonna talk about that in our official name if
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you've probably seen the title is how to detox your social media but we're gonna
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kind of go a couple different ways about it just talking about why it's good to detox your social media
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this might be the only detox we will endorse I can't really think of any
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unless it was like a friendship detox like I'm not like uh what are you saying
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are you gonna detox me yes I'm cutting off everyone no I
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I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't talk that's not true but
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when you talk every day that's true that's true we did a detox episode a few
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maybe a few months back we'll have to link it we'll link it below um but we spoiler alert and that one
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talked about how you don't need to do any kind of detox but actually you do
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you need to do a social media detox and this is how to do it yes we're excited
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so let's get into it overall
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let's let's pour one out that's a phrase I
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never said that before I've never heard those words come out of your mouth I don't think they'll ever come out
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again let's let's pour one out to those broad detoxes the lemon juices the
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Cayenne mixtures because they're just they are wannabes and they want to be
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our liver kidney and lungs I don't know what's got in here today
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I'm once again whenever we record I don't have brain power I know it's like at the
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end of the day whenever we record I wish we could record at like imagine recording at like 8 A.M we would be
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thriving we would be this would be a different product it'd be a much different podcast yeah it
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would be the more upbeat diet right now we're like the beat dietitians
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we really own our upbeat side are you saying that we're frauds
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is this her Scandal last time we talked about what our Scandal would be Oreo Scandal what was your Scandal again your
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avocado toast the truth is we're not that upbeat we're
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tired and brain dead but okay I don't know what's going to be anyway let's talk about how the real detox that
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deserves attention is social media detox and that you can't sell which probably
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is why it's not that popular you know what maybe we should sell that we could totally make an ebook or
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something like a step by step even though we're giving it to you for free right now on
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this podcast maybe they didn't find the Pod yet you know we'll give them the opportunity to find the podcast but if
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they don't want to listen to us then they can pay for something okay good idea but yeah it is gonna be a very good
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thing to do whether you're doing it from learning through this free podcast or through our ebook we're gonna make
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apparently it's very important to do this because like and then I always talk about on here I think we talk about it
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because we just want to complain because it's exhausting being on social media there's a lot of cons to it a lot of
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Pros you get to like connect with others make virtual friends see what your family is doing from across the country
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or whatever um but unfortunately I think that's how it was intended to be used but it's
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become a lot more than that in a lot of ways um and it can be very detrimental to
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mental health and so that is the reason why we're talking about this today
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and we're all about mental health and you guys know so let's jump into the cons of social
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media because I think Hannah already covered the pros like you can connect with others you can connect with people
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across the world which is crazy like we have some friends like dietitian friends
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in Germany which is absolutely wild um you find people with similar interests or just learn about new
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people's like hobbies and what they're passionate about through it but real
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icons and we're gonna chat about them so first one being if not one of the biggest ones is social
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media can increase into individuals risk of disordered eating depression and
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anxiety they have done studies on this recent generation on their
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mental health and one of the biggest contributors to mental disorders is the
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internet which makes me sad when like older Generations are like the internet's ruining them like
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maybe in some way you're wrong but as well it's helped us develop opinions
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that aren't our parents because they are the main people we talk to um but it's kind it's a space where like
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bullying is always happening and you can never leave it and that's what that was one of the biggest factors that
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increased that like mental disorder risk and just the internet's not regulated
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social media is not really regular like you can say whatever you want Pinterest released the like no more weight loss
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things even though I still see weight loss I was just gonna say and like we can post we Emily and I both post on
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Pinterest like our tick tocks we just throw up there and if you're not a Creator you probably wouldn't know this but you can like add tags to like get
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your post seen and we can add weight loss tags so many of them available yeah on Tick Tock in their Community
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guidelines you're not allowed to promote anything with eating disorders but there is a lot of okay there's a lot of
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zordian tick tock um it's like so who's even regulating that like that's the hard part yes and
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there's so much that it's not something a robot can easily decipher like there's
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very tricky ways people can word things that would not get flagged
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exactly so it's not regulated
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and also it's it never goes away it's just constantly going which also just thinking about that is anxiety inducing
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like there's never a slow moment really in
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social media some every week it's something new it literally it literally is like there are
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RDS like us who their whole platform is just like stitching and duetting all the
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stupid disordered eating content out there like they can make an entire platform based off of Just
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uh what's the word like combating all the negative content out there and
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they will always be able to do that because there's always going to be new content coming out that promotes disordered eating habits yeah
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which leads kind of into our next Point here our next con social media which is
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that we are constantly being exposed kind of along with disordered eating to this like idea that of course then
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bodies are good and big bodies are bad this is like another just constant
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constant thing I'm talking about it all the time on my page recently it's just everywhere yeah especially in the social
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media world or like the influencer world yeah it's pushed hashtag a lot of goals
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yeah and then like the creators that find success a little
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bit easier are always have thinner bodies or in thinner bodies
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or they're posting like a weight loss um what's it called
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my gosh this is such an obvious word before and after oh yeah post before and
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they were of course bigger and then they lost weight and those posts always go viral but everyone's like oh my gosh I'm
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so proud of you you did so good you're so much prettier now you know the
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whole stick I think the only before and after weight
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loss ones I like are where both it's like I always see it with girls because I
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don't know I I said I don't really tend to like see men on
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my feet I don't either I'm like this is not for you yeah you're
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um but I always see it where like girls will talk about like she deserved to be loved and then they show their like
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before body those are the only ones I do like because like yes
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she deserved the same exact amount of love and compliments and whatever you're
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receiving now yeah and unfortunately those people had experienced that difference they're like wow
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people like me a lot more now that I'm thin exactly and that's where I want to say like
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before some troll is like you're so anti-weight loss we're not anti-weight loss we're just anti what comes along
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with that the other side of it when you have not lost the weight yet
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um yeah all of that weight loss is not inherently a bad thing but it's also not
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inherently a good thing either no which that's not what people want to
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hear because we're not just pushing people to make themselves as Tiny as possible and
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shaming people yeah Benny who that's a sensitive topic to me right
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um let's talk about the next con so if you're someone that only follows
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people that like have a that meet that very narrow definition of beauty or the
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beauty standard this will absolutely affect your body
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image and can hinder your
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actions or your efforts toward body acceptance
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yeah because that's all you're being exposed to that's all you know that's kind of like this is the norm this is what I
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should look like when that's not the case there isn't an ideal body
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shape and only seeing one type will
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make it a little bit harder to maybe accept your body if you look a little bit different than whatever you're
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following on your feet yeah diversity is important I'd say it applies to like race too like
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if you're only following what you define as Beauty as just so
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blonde white girl that's all you're going to think of as pretty beautiful whatever but there's
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there's way more than just blonde white girls out there there are there are
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yeah diversity all around we'll be good for your feet yeah
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um next one we've discussed before on here many of times we've even done an
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entire podcast episode where we reacted to these Trolls but trolls are the next con which
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I guess I was I was gonna say that it will only really happen if you are Someone Like Us who's like intentionally
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putting content out there um but like you could literally post anything in trolls will come after you even if you're not like having social
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media no I actually someone we both know they started a
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social media account where they are like pursuing sewing on
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the side and they like posted a couple other pieces just to share and like they
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wouldn't not to say that like only people with like really big families get hate
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comments because I've seen hate comments everywhere yeah um but like they're in nasty comments
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and I was like literally why like why did you why are
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you hating on this person sewing like passion and what they created
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and it just goes to show like literally like we kind of go after them sometimes
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like sometimes we like to stir the pot a little bit but there's sometimes people are just
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sharing what they like and they're gonna be trolls and haters and that's unfortunately how the world works
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yeah and they're never they're not going to go away there's you're not gonna please everyone
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and there's always going to be someone who's upset yeah and I guess even if you're not
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posting content to receive comments I think even like scrolling through Tick Tock and reading all the hate comments
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that can't be good for your health mental health either no like just seeing
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them even if it's not towards you I'm sure it's still not going to be great for our brains yeah there's definitely a
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mob mentality with it because like once one person starts being mean then everyone starts being mean
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it's crazy out there people have too much time in their hands I know
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like I I don't want to put myself on like on this High pedestal or whatever but like
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I have never left a comment like that and I have no desire to I don't get where that comes from
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I think the closest I've left to a hate comment was someone was saying that
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we're controlled by the academy and I commented like they're actually not our
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governing body if you like look this up that was so close that was the meanest
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thing no but like
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I don't know it's just a projection of people's like insecurities and like their own they're being miserable like
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they're miserable their own lives but the time they have
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when it's not just like one it's great remember that person I know you've had it too that person on my page
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that was on there for 24 hours commenting and it went viral of course because Tick Tock was like hell yeah
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like to you is that only like you sit on your phone and you're like that's so boring
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get a hobby yeah different Hobby yeah
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and it's always the ones that have like no profile picture oh yeah they have two followers
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yeah and they I was talking to Bobby the other day and
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I'm like these people should be glad I'm not more vengeful than I am because
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digital footprints exist yeah and it's very use you you may think
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you know how many they connected oh you do they're it's very easy to find if you know how
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to find it but like yeah I'm sure they don't think about it have you been seeing Drew's posts on Tick Tock where
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she like it goes to the commenters like Paige and like post a picture for a video I've
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been living person that's so like where does this audacity come
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she gets it bad she oh yeah she gets it bad I
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and something I feel like remember until it's happening to me is
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they get notifications for all the like intern conversations to happen I'm like because you're used
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to just looking through the comment section you just see the top ones you aren't seeing at what's at the bottom or
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what's happening in the arguments yeah so I don't even want to know
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when she posts the DM she gets I'm like
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how do people think this is okay or like pepperoni muffin she has her comments
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too hers are also insane yeah and I'm like
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you can if you really don't like someone you can block them oh yeah follow them
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like there are people I just don't like I block them exactly like influencers that have millions of followers everyone
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else likes I just don't for no reason but I'm not like on their page posting hate comments I just no block them dming
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them racial slurs
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oh my gosh but it's okay we trolls don't listen so like you guys already that's true no
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we're not preaching to those who need to hear it right now hopefully if you guys
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have ever gone to hate Comic you block them or you know it's coming from someone who's
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just sad about their life and taking it out on others it's not about you no
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next thing to note with social media is it's a highlight reel and people only
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show you what they want to see and this case in point I know we so we were done
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talking about him but liver King purposely did not host his what steroids
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he's taking every morning or whatever I don't even know if he takes her every morning I have no idea
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you should embrace this is this coming from his new right making his brand yeah he's like let's normalize steroids and
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their side effects um but people choose what they post you
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only see what they want you to see even when they post that vulnerable video or
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that vulnerable picture where they're crying or something happen they wanted you to see that at the end of the day
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they didn't accidentally stop oops I oh and hit post and added the filter
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while I'm falling down hit record and hose and put up my ring light and I made
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the angle look good now they are intentionally showing you that and it might be to show you like more
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that vulnerable side which we do appreciate but they choose what you see
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they aren't going to show you things they don't want you to see and that's something we tend to forget when we're
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following people we really like especially people who just post about their lives so you feel like you know
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everything but you're probably only seeing one or two hours of their life a week or so yeah
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yeah like even those who are constantly seemingly constantly on there there's no way
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you're seeing every single thing that's just not realistic unless they have like a live feed camera on them 24 7. God
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that'd be terrible that sounds like something in Black Mirror let's I don't know what that is
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it's a TV okay you wouldn't like it it's a TV show that's not happy
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[Laughter] but it has a lot of like the purpose of
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it is to make you like question things about our society so like that's really thought provoking but it's I would not
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say it's a happy show um this would surprise our listeners that know this part of me but not you
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um I'm watching the house of dragons Series right now oh my gosh how are you
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episode five we just finished I think you're farther than I am oh really
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Bobby and I haven't seen past the first time Jump because we're okay well I
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won't tell you what I just I won't tell anyone I guess because it's a big spoiler what I just watched because that show is always got big things happening
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you can't talk about really yeah are you liking it yes compared to Game of Thrones I don't know if I can compare
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them they're just different I don't know I like them both but yeah I think that would be surprising to listeners who think that I just want
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Happy shows it's the only show I watch that's not happening that's true Game of Thrones dragon are not happy no I just
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watched like eight people die in this episode and like there's blood everywhere and like
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yeah people cheating on three years yeah not great classic classic
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Game of Thrones House of dragon things incest you know the whole yeah the yeah
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well it wouldn't be Game of Thrones or House of Dragons without incest exactly
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but yeah I want to tell you that and I guess now you guys get to know too I'm on I'm exciting episode five I wonder
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yeah you need to watch it so we can talk about it okay I don't know once he's I know they were
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confirmed for a season two after like just a couple episodes because of how popular it was
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I don't know much about the books are there going to be other like spin-offs because there's been talk of them
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there's been talk of a lot of spin-offs but I don't know if any are actually in the works
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I guess they should focus on one at a time I'm sure it's a lot to produce a show like that yeah I always think about
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that I don't know if anyone else does but like when I watch anything really I have to like I don't know what it is
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about me I'm always thinking about like how they got the angle and like what props they had to like get to like do
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that I think anyone's thinking I wouldn't say anyone I would say the majority of people I
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don't think and I always like put myself in the shoes of like the crew so like
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what jobs everyone's doing and like what they did that week to like prepare for that episode like
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I'm always thankful for that kind of stuff I think maybe you have a different calling maybe you should be a producer I think I
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would love that like it's like organized stuff and like it's always new because I get so bored
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which is what happens in my own business is like I create something and then I'm like okay that was fun now what and so
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like I've created multiple like ebooks and courses that have just like not gone anywhere because I create it and I'm
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just like what's next yeah I don't want to like do the same thing forever so I think you're
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right I feel like we've already hit our therapy part of the episode I know
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this normally happens at the end I know Game of Thrones yeah I'm always thinking
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like what what's everyone doing behind the scenes in this episode
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and like how you like love the behind the scenes then of like any absolutely
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and like the bloopers like all that kind of stuff where like it's that makes sense why you like the office ladies
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podcast so much they just like break down the entire episode and like what every person's job was that week yeah
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it's so fascinating
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oh man there was they're not showing that social media or the show
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none of that exactly good good segue back to us I was gonna
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say sorry you're gonna say something worthwhile
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let's move on okay all right last well our last con I'm sure there's
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dozens more um our last con though for today's purposes is that
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social media can create fomo or generate fomo which I was going to say I don't
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experience because I just want to be home by myself with my dog and Ross but
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I will say if it helps someone else relate to this I actually do experience it but I experience it more so in like
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like a business standpoint for me personally like if someone in dietetics is like thriving in their business I'll
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experience bummo that way so it may not be about like
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experiences or like this person's on a really cool trip to Aruba
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um but like other aspects of people's lives that you follow you might feel like jealous of and even like their body
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and like they have maybe someone has like a really great relationship with food that you wish you had
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um that kind of fomo could be something that could be worsened as well by social media that comparison side of it
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exactly so whatever it is like man I didn't really be fomo I guess but the comparisonitis for sure is a big thing
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yeah so let's talk about how to start your detox
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step one go and log into your social media
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platforms whether it's Facebook Instagram Tick Tock Pinterest YouTube
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be real we'll throw in there too Snapchat
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Twitter Tumblr Oh my God Myspace Myspace
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well if I ever download Snapchat I want you to just like come to my house and
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me in the face you know how I redownloaded it right yeah what's the update now what's your
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Snapchat Journey all right the notifications have been off for years okay
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um but I have like one or two friend groups that use it and that's the only reason yeah why I have it but much
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better compared to where when we first met our Snapchat guys we're at that was
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so weird that was like 2015 2016. I was embarrassed by my snap score
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I remember I like compared it to you and Maddie and a couple other people and they're like Emily
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why is your score so up and I'm like this is how people communicate that is not how I communicated absolutely not I
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deleting the Snapchat for that time was one of the best decisions in my entire my I don't even know what it's used for
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anymore to be honest is it the same thing I think so it's it's dying good so
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I know I don't ever look at the ad section but
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like when I look at it like nothing ever makes sense it's like weird click baby stuff that I'm just like
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I don't have any interest in seeing this but yeah it's I don't I think it's
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I think it's just much more popular with like high school and younger
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I saw someone posted like you're above the age of like 22 or like
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23 and someone asks you for your Snapchat like walk the other direction oh I'd
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literally be like how old are you absolutely not you're a child that'd be illegal
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I can't speak to someone who's younger than me um I was telling Ross the other day I
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was like imagine if we had to like date in this day and age how terrible that high top I talked about this all the
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time because I think I'm allowed to say this I don't think I I
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I'm gonna read the rules of this before before we release this but in that
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Facebook group I joined oh no I can I can say I'm in it okay
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we're okay we're okay I'm not gonna get I really don't want to get kicked out of this group I'm interested I mean
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a Facebook group called are we dating the same guy Chicago Edition
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and I have been reading the stories
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it's mostly like Tinder and hinge stories and
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I don't think I'd survive no I would just be single forever and there are
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some more like the comments are nice and they're like oh yeah I went out with him he's really nice and I've seen someone
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like oh yeah I'm also getting coffee with him and I I just know that would
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mess me up knowing like they're not exclusive not the like that's normal
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apparently yeah you can do your thing whatever but that's not my vibe at all I
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I'm very self-aware of how jealous of a person I am and how insecure when it
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comes to dating I am we would not last no you wouldn't fall in love with people within like two days
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exactly and I would have like six girlfriends yeah and I like overthink and get
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incredibly jealous oh it's a good thing
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we're not looking for that no thank God I hope I
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never have to do that ever again not that it was that hard for me because I met Ross like a billion years ago but and at Taco Bell at Taco Bell we were
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just folding burritos foreign tacos that is not that did not sound
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right no we'll stick with the burritos so yeah I don't even know how we got
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here oh yeah the dating pools the dating World sounds terrible
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like oh cause Snapchat if some oh yes guy asked for my Snapchat
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um no no no I feel like I'm
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I can't talk to you this is this is against the wall
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how old I am ugh but let's talk about the detox because we're getting sidetracked okay
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yeah so the first step like Emily said is to just go to the platform so there are some that we think are more
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toxic than others but just go through the ones that you use the most that you feel are leading to all those cons that
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we already talked about and then step two you're gonna go to your profile and go to your following
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list so who you follow you're gonna go through each person like each person that you follow ask yourself
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why do I follow them what are they doing for me are they bringing me joy or is it
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more I'm like compare myself to them do I feel neutral about them if that's the case I guess even then you could leave
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it or just get rid of them on Instagram they have like a mute function where you can like not unfollow them but just like
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mute them so you don't see their stuff like if it is like a friend from high school that you don't want to unfollow but you don't really want to see their
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15 stories a day mute functions very nice yeah
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foreign once you've done a little bit of reflection of
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what type of emotions am I feeling about this person
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if there's any type of feelings of like jealousy feeling insecure and adequate
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unfollow them like even a little even like they won't take it personally even though I
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definitely know and can speak from experience
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um those silly like Instagram follower tracking apps oh my God I used to have that I would take that so personally if
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someone involved but like they're gonna be upset for two seconds and then they're gonna move on
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and if it's like an influencer with millions of followers they're not going to care I don't want to break it to you
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but they don't know who you are no unless you are commenting
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every single second of the day OG follower like I have a few that I
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don't know personally but I know there might you recognize their names yeah I'd be sad about me that's true yeah
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but they'll move on yeah so unfollow them you don't have to like there's no purpose in following
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accounts that don't make you feel good about yourself right
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and it doesn't include just influencers or other people
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it could be like Brands it could be just certain types of things you see on your
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feeds you can like say not interested and it doesn't have to be people you follow it could also be like I'm Tech
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talk you can block people you can just just block them like I see like a type
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of video I don't like like if someone posts like a what I eat in the day that is very problematic I'll just put not
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interested so I can't get any of those anymore yeah it doesn't have to be as
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intense as an unfollow or a block it could be not interested so
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some other good questions related to food we can think about with the content
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we're seeing on our social media is we can think about does this account make us feel bad
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about your life or your body if it does unfollow or don't not
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interested does the account try to motivate you to change something out the way you look that includes
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weight loss and pushes the idea that weight loss is better might not be good for your mental health
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might be a good idea to do not interested or mute or blah or unfollow
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does it promote restricting the foods that you eat and
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this one I always like to look at who's saying it and then I think about
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what is their purpose here is it food fear-mongering how are they going about educating it but if they're just like
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Downy this it's toxic and poisonous
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probably not going to be a great account and honestly anyone who speaks like that I don't know how credible they are
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might be good for screw for unfollowing next one to think about is does it
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compare or scrutinize bodies with side by side comparison post does it perpetuate like any type of ideas of
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once again like judging you people's bodies body checking anything like that
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that there's just that hyper awareness around bodies and whatnot might not be great from a body image
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standpoint body acceptance standpoint and then does it promote exercise as a
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means to change your body rather than focusing on how it feels or other health benefits
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if they just push it for like changing your body might not be a great account why do you want to hit that not
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interested and then does it fail to represent individuals of different shapes ages and
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ethnicities and this is one of my favorite ones because if you get so tunneled in to one thing
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not only does it make your mind a lot more narrow-minded about make your mind more
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narrow-minded make your vision or perception of the world a little bit more narrow-minded there we go
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and you're like oh this is what everyone looks like and this is what everyone should look like well you're in you're
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only setting yourself up for failure because I'm not absolutely unfortunately fortunately
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we live in a world with all different types of people what they
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look like their ages their ethnicities and that's what is exciting because if we all look the same that'd be weird and
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we'd all be oh my God that's so weird like I'd be kind of afraid and like
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twins are really cool but like imagine if like everyone will be exactly imagine an entire world of like
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two different looking people how'd that work like how would you
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like base like attraction like speaking of dating like would that even be a thing would people have to start caring
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about personalities right ew just kidding
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yeah it matters that's weird that's scary it's cool that we have
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different shapes and colors and what else do humans have
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to offer personalities personalities Aid ages gender
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it's fine it makes it way more interesting like yeah
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there isn't one a one-size-fit-all to the beauty standard so we should make sure that our feed
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doesn't reflect that as well it so now that you've detoxed your feed
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probably is blank or your following is probably blank zero hopefully you were
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not at zero hopefully you're not because you had already done some of these things hopefully our podcast is still in
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your following yeah exactly um but now it's time to replenish if you
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would like to um we'll include in the show notes some
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of our favorite people to follow um we won't really like rattle those off here but it's time to fill with more positive fee
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or more positive accounts uh bonus points that they discuss intuitive eating or health at every size if it is
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a different um if it's adding diversity to what you usually would follow
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um in terms of like body size ethnicity whatever um those are the ones that you want to
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spice it up with yeah so overall social media can be a really
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great opportunity to connect with people connect with people around the world with friends family learn new
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information but also unfortunately it can be a scary
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place full of a lot of not so healthy
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healthy quote not so great
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uh nutrition information and it's not that well regulated so great news is you
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can control a lot of what you see to a point yeah with those not interested
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buttons those blocking buttons those unfollowing buttons and those following buttons because we want to
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give some people some love who are trying to advocate for
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Good Vibes in diversity Good Vibes and diversity that's that's oh my God that
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should be our tagline that is I'm all about that that is that's our new slip we don't
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have a slogan let's make a good boxing diapers
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I want a t-shirt that says that that's great yeah but yes I second all of that
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you can to a degree curate a feed that is not so toxic and there's a lot of
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tools thankfully on these platforms to help you do so okay the bonus question I want to
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explain it because it's kind of confusing the way I worded it I was not quite sure if you'd know what I mean by this but it goes back to our whole
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SnapChat thing so the bonus question is what does your preferred social media platform say
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about you and so what I want to do is go through like the big ones talk about like if you're a big Snapchat junkie
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what does that say about you we're gonna do some like personality trait thing yeah so like imagine like that 17
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magazine when you were younger a little like flow it would do okay
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so let's do Snapchat first since we've been talking about it if you prefer Snapchat it's like if you go to your
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like iPhone settings or whatever it's one that you spend the most time on according to your phone
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settings or whatever who are you like What's your deal if Snapchat is your number one thing yeah
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if you're a Snapchat or if Snapchat is your preferred social media of choice
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you are a 15 year old I was gonna say 13 yep and
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you live with your parents and
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you go to school eight hours a day rough and you
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enjoy the Emojis next to people's names and but you also get really upset and
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hung up on when your best friend Emoji changes
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and there might be some need for development in the connections
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I are appreciating the connections you can make
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but you love to take pictures and you love to share that experience with your
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friends but also sometimes you struggle to know how to communicate
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I like it I was gonna add like a visual like an aesthetic I think you wear
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low-rise jeans the baggy ones which no hey I want to pull it off I just can't I'm a millennial
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um low-rise jeans one of those like like right up to your boobs kind of crop top like the tight long sleeve yeah
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um you've got like the really chunky New Balance sneakers which I just got some
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new balances for Christmas from Ross I love them they're not like the dad ones though they're like okay I'll show you a
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picture they're very cute in my opinion but anyway you were like the big like Dad like mowing New Balances
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mowing watch yeah yeah um which looks super cute on you because
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you're 13. um yeah yeah that's how I would describe
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them how about it I'm gonna do how they dress I guess in each of these apparently it's gonna be okay I'll do personality how they dress okay
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should we do Instagram now hey I was gonna say and if you're a guy you
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probably are 30 years old and have never been a serious relationship no no no no no no no only half Kitty
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let's do wait which one do you say Instagram Instagram is your preferred
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I have beef with Instagram so you guys know if Instagram at this point in 2022
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after what Instagram has put us all through is your preferred
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social media you think you're too good for tick tock yes
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because you want real Instagram reels day in and day out but you refuse to
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download that Chinese app and you're better than everyone I forgot about that
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whole Scandal or like literally like the American government does not have
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our information already okay but okay do we not remember the Facebook Scandal
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like they they have your information it just matter what which country has it
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I mean that was me I was scared to download it because I was like I'm gonna get murdered by someone apparently
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my identity stolen yeah if Instagram's your Preferred Choice you
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love Instagram reels you think they're the funniest thing in the world um you're probably no I'm not gonna be a
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hater I am going to be a hater actually I'm a hater to my cohort um you're probably watching things and
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hearing like the corn song right now and maybe you're watching if it's a bones or
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no bones day did you say that he died he
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yeah why am I just now finding out about this I know wait how old was he is it my for
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you page he was old he was an old little guy oh my God I know the the owner of my for
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you page I didn't even follow them and I saw the news yeah I know oh my god well if you're on Instagram
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you'll be hearing about this in six months um You probably
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I was gonna say you probably love photo dumps but if you like Photo dumps you're probably on visco you're not on
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Instagram I don't really know what vesco is I mean I know what it is it's like a I think it's just it's like a aesthetic
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photo app I think the visco and Snapchat people are friends
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I can see that they like hang out on the weekends yeah
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yeah Instagram though if if Instagrams you're preferred I just don't have words for
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you I'm trying to think of like something you're really loyal I'll say that you're that's true you're a very
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loyal person good for you despite all the changes they Instagram put you through you stuck
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to them and you our good friend yeah a good significant
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other because you'll stick with someone even if they change for the worse which could be
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not good yeah I agree
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um I need to preface Mine by saying that what someone chooses to wear is always their choice I'm wearing a Goodwill
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sweater I got like five years ago that was from Goodwills was probably like 30 years old so you get to pick what you
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wear of course but the Instagram lover is wearing American Eagle skinny jeans
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those like black combat boots that we all had in like high school well when we
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were in high school or maybe like um like some Jesus sandals but like the
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ones that are like way out of date yeah um like the braided the braided ones or
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Old Navy flip-flops yeah um probably wearing
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like a t-shirt and a cardigan over it oh maybe some Ugg boots but Uggs are coming back apparently Alex are the the short
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uggs are yeah the mini ones not the remember the sparkly ones the sequin ones oh man those were so
47:39
cool like if you had those in like 2012 you were cool you were a cool kid you were
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cool and you were loaded good for you and your family was your parents were willing to spend that money
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on the ugliest shoes in the world oh my gosh so funny I still have my Uggs from high
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school which I think I ripped mine shows how sturdy they are you are oh yeah I was
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gonna say you were loyal are you an Instagram I am not an Instagram lover I mean I use
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Instagram obviously but I would not say it's my preferred I feel like we're going to just describe ourselves
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when we do what you think tick tocks I guess you're a Pinterest Tick Tock is not my preferred I was gonna say YouTube
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um I love YouTube but I also really like Pinterest I don't know what mine is I kind of hate all of
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them I mean Fair like that's okay I think I use Instagram the most
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yeah but I don't identify with any of the things that we are describing no and
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that's okay it shows you can get along with things
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that don't aren't similar to you yes that's the end of the things that aren't similar
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okay we might just speed this up we're going quite slow I know we don't have to do all of them let's just let's do Tick
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Tock and let's do YouTube okay and we'll throw in an honorable mention for
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Pinterest okay and an honorable mention for Twitter because I have things to say about Twitter okay
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let's do Facebook if you're Facebook you're if your preferred choices
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Facebook you're probably 75 years old honestly 40 plus 40 plus you're right
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you're right who am I to and we're not sure we're not far from that no we are
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oh my but like closer we're closer to 40.
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hold on this math made sense in my head and it's not it's not making sense hold on I'm taking that back I was supposed
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to say something very dumb I mean we're closer to 30 than we are 20.
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wow we're old yeah this is this is it so
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anyway if you're 40 plus and Facebook's your preferred social media you probably
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it's respective you probably post about any little okay but honestly I
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feel like people on Facebook were just experiencing what we experienced on
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Facebook when it first came out like we were posting every single stupid thought we had on there and like
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posting like random pictures and like not like
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it was more fun back then now it was now maybe it's just like our age group now
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it's just like life events and people complaining about things right who's having a baby what president do you not
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like who got married who had a bridal shower that's literally it that's
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literally it but you know you're probably over 40. what is what
50:58
are they wearing I think it honestly might be very similar to the Instagram
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outfits I was thinking maybe the like you know that print that everyone hates
51:12
which one like the one like they put it on like
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candles and it says like cat mom or like oh need more wine like runs for lips
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yeah like that that is on their shirt oh my God yes you're right
51:33
you're right they wear a lot of teal oh yes yeah
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teal and orange yeah are you like the Chevron that pattern
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big chunky necklaces yeah I feel like we're just going after women we are not
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misogynistic by the way I think if we were describing men I'd be
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much meaner yeah I just don't know what kind I don't know about men I know they all wear the same things I
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know and I mean that as an insult the only men I I work in a field of mostly
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women yeah I have I think like Ross my dad and Ross's dad are the only
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men that I communicate with on a regular basis it's like your dad's kind of fashionable
52:29
he wears these jeans we call that he's listening to us right now so hi Dad I love you he wears these jeans that we
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call TJ's which stands for his teen jeans
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they're think like Buckle I know you know what Buckle is I do like Buckle think like those like really cowboy-ish
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like oh like the equivalent of like the the women's like sequin sparkly ones for
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men like they're just I don't I don't I'll find a picture and show you okay dad
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sent me a picture of your TJ so I can show Emily and share it with the world [Laughter] please he has good fashion my mom always
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like talks about how she has to get his clothes though because like he won't buy his own clothes yeah
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which that's how I am like I love the idea of cute clothes but I don't ever spend money on them hence the Goodwill
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sweater is probably 30 years old anyway anyway
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let's Instagram if you're if your preferred Source okay
53:37
if you're a guy in your preferred social media's Instagram you probably only
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follow models I was just gonna say that Instagram influencers you're the one who's dming pepperoni muffin those weird
53:50
yeah leave her alone yeah weirdo
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I don't know what you wear probably cargo shorts probably
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or and this is wrong but sports shorts and t-shirt
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I feel like they all were literally like I don't know what guys wear I don't know Ross literally has the same outfit on
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different colors every single day I don't know this is about to be a very
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big generalization but in my experience on social media I don't know if I've
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ever seen like non-t-shirt wearing men
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insult people on the internet not on t-shirt so you're saying the
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T-shirt wears are the ones who insult people yeah and it's always like the most Bland outfit I've ever seen
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like I'm like wow I wore that when I was 11. yeah
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no I didn't we were fashionable back then we thought we were yeah with our eyes and skinny jeans I was gonna say I
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have another one for the instagramer um actually but I don't know I think there's two kinds of instagramers like
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the really chewy millennial who's doing like the skinny jeans and the the booties and all that if you see
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so I made a post that only it's chewy to say I know I am now I
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am part of that but it's either them or it's the
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like the over the top like Instagram model types I I agree so it's like and they stop
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to photos and they're doing well yeah because they're hot yeah
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yeah so they're the ones doing like the which I want to pair the like yoga pants that are in right now the flare ones uh
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quarter zip from Lululemon yeah yeah uh claw clip all that
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yeah so I go back on that we this could be a whole episode I don't know what if we
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should do like a part two of this one next week we let's do that come back next time to find out what
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YouTube Tick Tock and Twitter and picture star yeah well
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yeah because we've been we have lots to say apparently okay
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any whom detox your social media
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take care of yourself hit that unfollow button hit that block button it's
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rejuvenating it really is I know Tim would recommend and like
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nope I'll save it we're done we always do this we're done all right we'll we'll catch you next time
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tune in next week to find out what our pick what
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your social media preferred preferences about me oh my God
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all right let's end this let's end this okay guys thanks for coming bye
