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Chasing Life

It’s Time to Stop Doom Scrolling

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok – let’s face it, social media has become a central part of our lives. It’s where we make friends, find community, and entertain ourselves, but it can also be harmful for our mental health. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks to social media researcher Prof. Dar Meshi about what social media is doing to our brains, and why we need to set healthy boundaries around our social media use. Plus, chef and Instagram influencer Sophia Roe shares her secret to living her best life both online and in real life.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You guys threw that popcorn pop and listen.

0:05.0

That's my favorite town, though.

0:07.0

That's Instagram influencers Sophia Roe.

0:13.0

She's a chef.

0:14.0

She's also a host of the Vice TV show Counter Space.

0:18.0

Over the years, she's built a career on being candid and funny

0:22.0

through her Instagram videos.

0:24.0

I'm just a person on Instagram that likes to chat and cook mushrooms

0:29.0

and bake.

0:30.0

I think that for me, my community is so great because I have started my

0:35.0

Instagram being myself and have continued to be myself.

0:38.0

But if you're on the internet today, you know that it's not always a

0:42.0

safe place to be.

0:43.0

And for Sophia, a black woman, it's been pretty rough at some points.

0:48.0

Dang, whoa, this is a lot of like real casual racism going on.

0:55.0

For Sophia, the trolls really did get to her mental health.

1:00.0

And the harassment made her reassess her relationship with social media.

1:05.0

It's interesting, like social media is a tool to connect.

1:08.0

It's wonderful, but I think that's also really problematic at the same time.

1:11.0

So it's like great for community, but then it's also like for community.

1:15.0

You know, it's really, really strange.

1:19.0

Sophia's experience is probably sounding familiar.

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