Episode Synopsis "Social Media Weekly"
The idea of this episode of our podcast will be surrounding addiction to social media and how it affects our daily lives. We will focus on a couple of main topics. Those topics being introducing social media addiction, why it occurs and how it is harmful to the user. We will also be discussing ways to stop this comparison. Social media plays a big role in everyone’s lives and there are both positives and negatives within it. Although this podcast talks about the negatives of the social media and the addiction part of it, we give tips on how to combat this to enjoy the positives of it. We dive into the details of things like FOMO and people’s highlight reels. Because both of us have experience with social media, we felt that our opinions surrounding were valid and informed. In the first section, we talked about how people compare their behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reels, resulting in a depressing mood. On social media everyone likes to put their best life rather than their actual life, maybe to give off the impression that they are always having fun. In our next topic, we discuss that people need to focus on the things that really matter to them. Doing this will help to eliminate some of that jealousy and help to make you more appreciative of what you have. We end the podcast with a short conclusion, detailing the things that we talked about and one final challenge that we have for our listeners. That being to find a hobby or activity that they can do to keep their minds off of other people’s social media.