From those judgy bridesmaids to West Elm Caleb, has TikTik surveillance ruined gossip?

There Are No Girls on the Internet

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this special episode taped from the iHeart Music Festival in the Bose recording booth, Bridget and Mike talk about the rise of many-to-many social surveillance via social media and what it means for all of us.

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0:00.0	There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.
0:12.0	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:17.6	So this past weekend, my producer Mike and I headed out to the I Heart Music Festival in Las Vegas,
0:22.6	where we recorded a live episode of There Are No Girls on the Internet from the House of Music booth.
0:27.6	Ironically, our conversation was all about why so many people are surveilling the behavior of strangers on social media platforms like TikTok.
0:36.6	And we have that conversation from a recording booth right on the strip where passers-by could
0:41.9	stop and check out our recording.
0:43.7	So we were talking about social surveillance while being very much surveilled ourselves.
0:49.3	So you might hear a little bit of music and festival noise in the background of this episode.
0:54.2	Taping like this was a real first for me, but it was super fun and I hope you enjoy it.
0:59.3	Hey there, we're recording live from the IHeart podcast studio powered by Bose at the House of Music
1:04.9	at the IHeart Music Festival. Okay, so a real quick fact about me is that I am a very nosy person by nature, and if somebody
1:13.3	has gossip about a stranger, you can rest assured that I am interested in it. I want to know
1:18.7	details. Who said what? And then what did she say? Who did what? Why did she say that? And then
1:23.4	what happened? I want follow-up. I want details. I'm very invested. And I don't think I'm alone.
1:28.0	I actually kind of think this is just human nature. You know, people want to know what's going
1:32.6	on in the world around them. But what happens when it goes too far? And we start projecting
1:37.1	entire worlds and motivations on the people we've never even met. Here's a great example of what
1:43.8	I mean. A few weeks ago, this
1:45.9	TikTok of a woman relaying a conversation that she overheard at a cafe blew up. The woman said
1:51.8	that she overheard a nearby table of women essentially talking major crap about a bride who was their
1:58.4	friend and they had all been bridesmaids in her wedding.
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