If asked to DTR with social media, many of us would answer: it’s complicated. When Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp went down on October 4, 2021, it became impossible to ignore how complicated that relationship really is. On the one hand, we got a day to check back in with ourselves IRL, but on the other… Many of us would be ashamed to admit how many times we checked to see if the apps were back up and running. When it comes to being sucked into the scroll, are we as individual consumers entirely to blame? It’s clear that whether we like it or not, most of us are in a committed relationship with social media, so how do we make it better?
HOST: Taylor Camille, Sr. Producer at Well+Good
GUESTS:
Bea Arthur, LMHC, Founder and CEO of The Difference
Tanya Goodin, Author, Speaker, Founder of Time To Log Off
Naj Austin, Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Somewhere Good and Ethel’s Club
WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT:
Bea Arthur breaks down the concept she calls “the culture of comparison,” as explained in her 2015 TEDx Talk. Find her here and check out The Difference here.
Tanya Goodin gives us one practical step that we can take today to get social media back on track. Find her here and check out Time to Log Off here and order her book My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open here.
Naj Austin explains how we can hold ourselves accountable for how we are spending our time digitally. Find her here and check out Somewhere Good here and Ethel’s Club here.
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