S1 E3 - Feeling Feelings About Social Media

Feeling Feelings

Turns out: we feel lots of feelings about social media. Who doesn't, tho? Really? We're millennials, raised on AOL and chat rooms (asl?). To complain about social media, yet still be dependent on it is like breathing to us. Addictions are discussed. Yes, we both admit, without shame, that we are addicted, that we care about likes, that there is still some part of us that wants to throw our phones in the ocean and go live off the grid, yet neither of us ever will, since our careers and lives are so—ugh—dependent on this device and all its little apps. Refresh. Refresh. Refresh. Fuck! We discuss our frustrations about social media, the comparisons, the validations, the way we love/hate it in equal measure. Gigi Hadid is discussed, because of course. Good news: we also talk about the GREAT things about social media. No gatekeepers, so lots of voices get to be heard, lots of bodies and faces and skin colors get to be seen that otherwise would be shunned and hidden away. GREAT. Yet, to get to the good, there's also so much trash on social media to wade through. Feelings on that trash are discussed at length. Anecdotes are shared, like campfire stories. (No s'mores though, so that's fucked up.) Insecurities are divulged. Feelings are displayed. Honesty spit forth. It's a lot. But just enough? You tell us. Please be advised you can share all your feelings on all our social medias (feelingfeelings.co). Yep, meta. Complaining about social media but using social media to complain and also connect? Very Jess + Jamie. Ugh. PSA: In this episode we talk about Kanye West a cringeworthy amount but when we recorded the episode he’d only tweeted like 5 times so please forgive us and our pre-recorded episodes. We no longer share his views. ???