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Welcome to DTNS Experiment Week.

All this week DTNS is on summer vacation, but in its place is Experiment Week where our producers and contributors are trying out new show ideas and releasing them right here on the DTNS feed. Enjoy.

I'm Nicole Lee and this is a perpetually online. I show about life on the internet, dining groups, memes, beaves, viral videos, and everything in between.

My co-host today is Carissa Bell. Hello Carissa. Hello. Hello.

And just a little bit about about about ourselves. My name is Nicole, like I said, and I've been a technicalist for almost 20 years now.

But more than that, I'm always online. I've been, I was on Twitter, like, day dot. It seems like. And, uh, and, Carissa, what don't you tell us a little bit about what you do for a living and, and how you feel about being online all the time?

Well, I'm also a tech reporter, surprise surprise.

I've been doing it probably about to at least 10 years at this point, try not to think about it. And I've spent most of that time covering social media, so I am also always online.

Got in a little bit better lately about trying to consciously, like, unplug at certain times.

Yeah. But, you know, it's basically my job to be online all the time.

Would you, would you be online all the time if it wasn't your job?

I think I would. Yeah. Yeah. Um, it's hard to know because I started doing this. I want to say around the time when Twitter started to get really big and social media as we know it now was kind of starting to blow up.

So, and that was around the time I became a journalist. So the two have always been very, like, intermixed for me. But, yeah, I think I probably would anyway.

Yeah, it's interesting because when I first started using Twitter and, you know, all the other social media stuff, that wasn't my job.

I mean, I covered tech, but it was more in the, you know, gadget space. It wasn't so much in the social media online space.

And, uh, but I just started using it just, just to use it really. Um, I think a lot, honestly, to be completely honest, the, the one of the reasons I was, I was on all the social media things to begin with just was just to reserve my name was just like to book my name so that I would be like Nicole or Nicole, you know, whatever.

Just to, like, have my name parked and reserves of no one else could use it really. And that was like my driving reason, my driving force to use all these things to begin with.

But, um, yeah, very seriously. Similarly, that was one of my things. Um, but yeah, I think the reason why I wanted to do this podcast is because, like, I feel like very similarly.

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