Welcome to the Girls Talk podcast, where girls talk, girls talk, girls share, girls listen and girls take control.

I'm Andrew Aboa and I started Girls Talk because of my own struggles with mental health.

The thing that brought me out the other side was knowing I wasn't in this alone, talking

about my problems with my girls and moving my body to clear my head.

Which is why every episode I'm going to invite my friends to talk, share, listen and take control

of our shit.

Because together, we will become individually and

collectively stronger, inspire each other and create a badass community. So, listen to us when you

need to put your headphones in. Block out the noise and surround yourself with the tools to control

whatever chaos is in your life.

Hi girls and welcome to the Girls Talk podcast.

This month we're still on the subject of addiction.

And this week I actually wanted to talk about something that I think I can definitely say for myself that I'm addicted to it as well,

but I think it's definitely become a major problem with both the youth

and actually people of my age group and people older,

but that is an addiction to social media.

Over three quarters of the population is online,

and 500 million tweets, 95 million Instagram photos,

and 400 hours of YouTube videos are uploaded every single day.

The thing that shocks me most about social media

is that, in fact, young females are

addicted to social media more than any other group. And the consequences are that females are

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