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Quitting social media changed my life, my social media detox strategy.

Welcome to the frugal friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity,

and live a rich in your life.

Here are your host, Jen and Jill.

Hey, hey, frugal friends. I'm Jen and Jill. Hey.

Hey, frugal friends. I'm Jen.

I'm Jill.

And Carl Marx once said that religion is the opium for the masses.

And I think social media is that opium now.

No kidding. So that's what we're looking at today.

Yeah, we're just starting off with something lighthearted. Right. I mean, and which is pretty much

been our MO for the last year. But for the last year off and on, I have been getting away from social media.

Jill has never been a big social media user, but you have been like mostly running our

frugal friends Instagram. When I feel like it. Yeah, when you, and honestly, that's how it should be. And it's not that way anymore.

And we're going to talk about that from both the creator side and the consumer side of how we get so

wrapped up in this. And then also how we can use social media responsibly because there is we've reached a tipping point where you

almost cannot opt out anymore there are businesses who don't have a website they only have like an

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