Highlight: How Did I End Up On Instagram?

Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

Audacy

Comedy

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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If social media really is melting the brains of our youth, maybe this new Tik Tok feature will help. But where's the help for the rest of us?

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0:00.0	Oh my God. You're waking up with Sarah and Vinny.
0:02.8	Oh, look at that. Alice at 973.
0:07.1	This is actually a good step by a company that I don't even use, but I've heard enough
0:12.6	about TikTok that I'm like, okay. Okay.
0:17.2	You know your product is fully addictive when you're the one telling people, that's enough scrolling.
0:23.5	TikTok has announced a new feature that will prompt teenagers to stop scrolling and start meditating instead.
0:31.4	If your kid is on TikTok after 10 p.m., they'll see an alert in their for-you feed that offers guided meditation to help
0:40.8	them fall asleep.
0:42.2	Then if they keep scrolling, they'll get hit with a second prompt that fills the whole screen.
0:47.8	Oh.
0:48.9	TikTok's parent company, Bite Dance, says they tested the feature with a handful of teens this year
0:54.4	and only 2% turned the feature off.
0:58.5	And its response to public pressure and claims TikTok is melting our children's brains,
1:04.1	they're making it available for adults too, but anyone under 18 will have it turned on by default.
1:11.6	So I think this is a good thing.
1:13.7	You know, one of the things I've noticed,
1:16.3	like I was without my phone for 24 hours and was happy to be.
1:19.8	I didn't need anything.
1:20.9	I was sitting at home.
1:22.0	I was playing guitar.
1:23.1	I went to the beach.
1:24.1	I hung with my kids.
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