Speaker 1: Flex and Frooms, Flex and Frooms.
Speaker 2: This is the Flex and Frooms catch up podcast.
Speaker 1: It is Flex and Rooms on CATA And do they
Speaker 1: just give podcasts to anyone these days? Yes, it's looking
Speaker 1: like it. Someone cament on a TikToker that I was
Speaker 1: saying we should start a podcast. Yeah. I didn't like that.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have real shared it. It's the energy, but
Speaker 1: it is what it is. I love this and I
Speaker 1: stand by it. Yeah, I stand by it. Listen. Emma Chamberlain,
Speaker 1: social media superstar, has a partty called Anything Goes, and
Speaker 1: in one of the most recent episodes, she posts the
Speaker 1: question is it narcissistic to post photos of yourself? I
Speaker 1: like to say words mean things, and we just like
Speaker 1: take words and throw them at the wall and hope
Speaker 1: they stick. I understand what is being said here, but
Speaker 1: do we all have personality disorders for taking photos? I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say no.
Speaker 2: What's interesting is I think social media can actually and
Speaker 2: us into narcissists, even if we weren't before. I think
Speaker 2: social media has a tendency to bring out a very
Speaker 2: narcissistic side of us that might have remained dormant otherwise.
Speaker 1: Emphasis on dormant otherwise that in your sister, it was
Speaker 1: in your system, and if it wasn't social media, it
Speaker 1: was going to be something else. Before we used to
Speaker 1: post on social media, we all look to opportunities to
Speaker 1: talk about ourselves, to.
Speaker 2: Bring bring the family photo booths, photo constantly.
Speaker 1: Put it constantly. When I walk into my family home
Speaker 1: and I go into my living room. When I go
Speaker 1: into my living room, there are photo frames all on
Speaker 1: the walls. Who's in those photos? You, babe? My mom house,
Speaker 1: says Queen Liz, Like you know where you are, babe,
Speaker 1: you know where you are socials, but she knows. And
Speaker 1: everyone's thinking that, like, being self interested is a modern problem.
Speaker 1: What about the Greek mythology of narcissists, the guy who
Speaker 1: was so obsessed with his own reflection? Come on, now,
Speaker 1: it's just human nature love the way that even being loathing,
Speaker 1: being a self loathing, self deprecating character is so self interested. Ah,
Speaker 1: it's boring to the point I want to seple obsessed
Speaker 1: with themselves who like themselves as a starter. So yes,
Speaker 1: The question is, has social media turned us into narcissists?
Speaker 1: Hasn't turned It's given us an environment to do so
Speaker 1: with reward. When I remember I was telling that story
Speaker 1: of like me being sixteen telling that story. No one
Speaker 1: was listening, and I was like, I need to learn
Speaker 1: how articulate. When I was on my journey of learning
Speaker 1: how to articulate, one thing that said to be mindful
Speaker 1: of is speaking in imperatives, saying things like always literally yeah,
Speaker 1: like constantly when you really mean continuously and sometimes and
Speaker 1: every now and then. And we fall into the trap
Speaker 1: because it's like fill a language and stuff. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give her the benefit of the doubt and say
Speaker 1: that she didn't mean everyone and we're all narcissists. I
Speaker 1: think it's an oversight to assume that in this society
Speaker 1: where people are now interested in improving their self concept
Speaker 1: and sharing to the world, that it's always going to
Speaker 1: be negative. I would much rather this than a generation
Speaker 1: of like insular, closed off people who feel as though
Speaker 1: their stories and their likeness is not worthy of sharing
Speaker 1: like it used to be. I remember when I worked
Speaker 1: in PR I would have been like nineteen or something,
Speaker 1: and my co worker at the time was like, you
Speaker 1: should post your outfits on Instagram, And I was like,
Speaker 1: why would I ever post on Instagram? Who cares what
Speaker 1: I do? She's like, that's a very damaging mentality, and
Speaker 1: I was like, what do you mean. She's like, what
Speaker 1: do you mean? Who cares what you do? I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't understand what you're saying. Like so I get
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, but you know, I was nineteen, you know,
Speaker 1: but that mentality it bleeds over into everything. Why shouldn't
Speaker 1: people have permission to share their thoughts, both informed and uninformed.
Speaker 1: I think the damaging part is that we as consumers
Speaker 1: and audience members aren't just certain enough to know that
Speaker 1: some things aren't for us to care about. I can
Speaker 1: see someone crying on the internet, think it's weird and
Speaker 1: move on, as opposed to now trying to pathologize why
Speaker 1: they're doing that, if it's a narcissistic act or whatever, whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever whatever. That's what we should be focusing on. You know, Slay,
Speaker 1: not the Sligh, Not Sleigh. I said, not the Sleigh.
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Speaker 2: Babe?
Speaker 1: He knows he gets it. He's a real one. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I can't say sligh, but I can say podcast.
Speaker 1: I'm done, miss you already, Bye bye.
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