Who wants to talk about a controversial subject?

You do?

Oh, good.

Because you came to the right place if you do.

Welcome everyone to episode six of the Run Selfie Repeat podcast, where we talk about life with a side of running.

My name is Kelly Roberts.

I am your hostess with the mostis.

Who likes to throw a lot at you in a 10 to 20 minute period of time depending on how much I unload about my personal life. Yeah. Today I want to talk about something that runs my life. It is a big part of my job and career. I want to talk about getting real on social media and just like social media in general because this is kind of a

dumb thing to say and I may regret it, TBD, but I really love to hate

social media. And here is why. So social media is wonderful for many reasons. One, we get to share

our lives. Two, it connects us to people abroad all over the world, people that we may

never get to be in contact with. And three, it's a great way to build community and to find people,

like-minded people, different people, and to just start conversations. It's a great tool in our politically charged climate right now

to organize. I mean, social media is great. There's no if, ands are but about it. It's a wonderful

thing. But it's also a terrible, awful thing because could you imagine being 14, 15, 16 right now and having Instagram and likes run your life?

And have that be a thing that you have to worry about?

I mean, my God, when I was a teenager, we had a MySpace kind of.

And when people hung out without you and they kind of throw it in your face that sucked

and now there's like 400 million different platforms where kids can just be cruel and awful to each other

and there's trolls and all sorts of just terrible awful things which we'll save for another topic, because today I really want to

talk about something that I find to be really exciting, and that's kind of getting real,

getting raw, getting vulnerable on social media.

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