Ep. 20 / The Issue With Parasocial Relationships
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Alyssa Anderson
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode we talk about parasocial relationships and the weird side of social media.
Two best friends, two very different perspectives.
Join Samantha Ravndahl, a top beauty Influencer, and Alyssa Anderson, an aspiring actress, as they dive into lesser explored topics with a light-hearted approach.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Thank you. Look who decided to show up. I'm ready now. Oh, okay good. No need for an intro. |
| 0:08.6 | No. Okay, well that's the intro. So today... |
| 0:13.6 | What? No look at me the intro. Oh my god. Alyssa? Hey Alyssa. That's not my name. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey Alyssa. Hey Sam. Are you ready? Yes. I am very ready. I should do it in Spanish. See. |
| 0:33.3 | Listo's. Oh, are Lista's? I don't know because I'm not learning Spanish with you. |
| 0:39.8 | We're already running into the issue. Yeah, clearly. |
| 0:50.3 | Sam. Is that show you know a pro? |
| 1:02.3 | So today I wanted to talk about basically just some things that are like a weird side effect of |
| 1:07.6 | social media. Mm-hmm. Bizarre things that I think take place in social media that you know |
| 1:13.1 | grind my gear sometimes. Yeah. Where do I begin? I've been grounded. Yeah. |
| 1:20.9 | Um, I wanted to start by talking about parasocial relationships. Let me get my book out. Yeah. I don't know. I have a description. Okay. |
| 1:31.2 | So basically a parasocial relationship is a one-sided relationship where the other side is unaware |
| 1:35.9 | of the other's existence. So, okay. This is like common within like... It's not like something that's |
| 1:42.6 | started on social media. I think they coined the term like the 1950s but it was more so something |
| 1:46.9 | where it started with like like people watching celebrities and feeling like they have a relationship |
| 1:52.4 | with this person. Right. And now obviously it's like very much so exacerbated by social media because |
| 1:58.9 | people watch you and listen to you and follow your Instagram and all that kind of stuff and they |
| 2:03.7 | feel like they know you and they feel like in some ways like you guys have almost like a little |
| 2:08.3 | bit of a relationship. Right. And so sometimes this results in like a lot of issues because I |
| 2:17.6 | noticed this in that I think people hold me to like a particularly high standard because they have |
| 2:25.0 | like a perception of me that they've maybe created but maybe you know it's like partially what |
| 2:30.7 | they've come up with partially like what I've kind of offered through you know things I talk about |
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