Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: Help! I'm Addicted to Social Media!

Episode Date: November 7, 2015

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I did, in fact, I don't believe I actually said that the debate field was thinning out on the big stage. But that's funny. It's a funny line. And those of you that are busy tweeting and Facebooking and Instagramming, are you addicted? Are you one of the people that are addicted to social media? Because I kind of think I am and then I think, no, I'm not. I'm not. I like it and I use it and it's entertaining.

I don't know that I'm addicted. But there's a girl in Australia, 18-year-old, Asina O'Neill, who is giving it up. She says I was addicted. but she has she's built an empire right I mean she's had more than a half a million followers

on Instagram quarter of a million YouTube subscribers alone and I mean that's you can make a pretty good living pretty good living doing that but oh no no

Not her. She's had enough. It's too shallow. It's too shallow for her. She was getting sponsorships. I mean, look, when you get past a certain point at social media, companies want to use you as spokespeople, as mentions for advertising. So they're going to pay you.

and then on top of that you're getting money for YouTube clicks so I mean you're doing pretty good but this girl O'Neill decided she had enough she had to stop actioning her values she claimed

she was not actioning her values and wasn't living an authentic life so I realize that it's a fine line between, you know, you say, all right, this is going to be my social media side, and this is going to be my personal side. But if you're making a living and a pretty good one using it,

why give it up? I mean, and make a big deal about it. I mean, you have all these followers, you could make a difference. Now, maybe this is what she thinks is making a difference. difference. I needed to make a change. She announced we were followers. That's it. I'm quitting social media and edited the captions on her perfect photos. So she went through all her photos and put the right stage on them. You know, talking about I, here's my candid bikini shots. Stowe so

staged. This dress I'm wearing I never wore outside of the house except for this photo shoot. Well, we get it. We got it. And she said, in fact, in her, I just did them for the gram. Okay, thanks, Ella. Thank, appreciate it. Just for the gram. All right, thanks.

I'd spend hours trying to get the perfect selfie and then would edit it using several different apps. I will say that I think there was a story not long ago that talked about how much. many pictures people take before they send it out as the selfie. And I keep thinking it was like three or four for everyone that gets sent out, three or four get taken, you know, to look for that perfect, what you believe is the perfect one to send out. But I never use. I have never.

Now, have I taken more than one, you know, shot of something and, you know, scroll, I'm going to send that one. Yes. Hey, absolutely. Have I used editing apps? No. And by the look of me, you know I have not used editing apps. I should, though.

I'm going to have to start downloading some of those editing apps. I could become a fan of those. And she claimed that those were the only things that made her happy was the pictures. And life was just too shallow. She wasn't actioning her values. Well, God bless her. I hope it works out for her. but she made a big deal that she was giving it up that was it was over done and she

amazingly used the social media that she was so sick of to announce that she was done and then made a deal about captioning the photos on that I'm not sure how that really works out anyway good luck to her. But if you want your kids to have a new life, I make a living, maybe they could be a social media psychologist to help people work through the struggles of being on social media. It's very, very difficult, and people struggle with it every day. Those of you who are still struggling, you can tweet me at Jeff E.MRA.

You can Facebook me, Jeff Fisher Radio. And you can gram me at Jeff EMRA. You can also follow at the Blaze Radio. You can follow. No, you know what? Don't do that. Don't do that. I don't want to push your addiction any farther than it already is.

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