Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94.

My name is Andrew Hunter-Murre.

I'm in the Private Eye studio with Helen Lewis, Adam McQueen and Matt Muir.

And we are going to start off today by talking about social media.

We are.

It's very exciting.

There's a new study out about this exciting phenomenon on social media, which reveals everyone now hates it and has gone off it.

This is a report by offcom, isn't it, Matt?

Yeah, it's the latest offcom data that was published last week into UK media users, specifically online media,

showed that basically we all hate social media now, or at least we're not engaging with it in the same way that we used to.

The numbers of people who are actually going online and posting, for example, to Facebook or to Instagram, commenting, liking has dropped to just under half of people. And this has kind of led to a spate of articles that kind of hand-wringingly saying, well, is that it for social media? Now that we're banning it, are we all just going to stop using it, after all?

But that's not quite what the data shows.

I think it's kind of important to push back ever so slightly against this narrative. Because I don't know if you notice, people still look at their phones a lot. I don't know. I presume you still look at Instagram. I do. Fair to say, yeah. I've only just joined. I'm a bit embarrassed about it,

just because everyone else is leaving.

It's not too late to stop.

You can kind of get out.

It's like a proper context. Do. Fair to say? I've only just joined. I'm a bit embarrassed about it, just because everyone else is leaving us.

It's not too late to stop.

You can kind of get out of it.

And it's like a proper content creator.

And isn't this kind of part of this, what's happened? How dare you? Who you are, though? I've seen you on there. But the kind of casual, like, you might just post something for your friend's kind of stuff, is dying away and it's becoming more professionalised?

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