Quitting Social Media!

The Nicole Walters Podcast

Dear Media

Society & Culture, Business

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Friend, if you’re out there sharing your wins on social, you’re probably noticing that the internet has gotten meaner over the last few years.

And although the internet is still more positive than negative, we’ve got to talk about how we got here and what we can do about it.

Hit play for the story and lesson I received from an accidentally sent hate message.

Whether you’re sharing your own life or you’re one of the encouraging commenters on social, keep doing what you’re doing. Don’t cower in the face of negative comments and keep being loud about your wins.

We are in this together and although weapons WILL form, they won’t prosper. Thanks for being here, friend!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:04.7	Hey friend, it's Nicole, host of the Nicole Walters podcast.
0:09.2	Here's where we laugh, we cry, and we grant ourselves grace as we do life together.
0:14.4	Let's get started.
0:30.1	Thank you. Hey, y'all. So I am super excited about today's chat.
0:33.1	I actually have a little over listener.
0:34.9	You can't see her.
0:35.7	She's off screen, but she is here today.
0:38.2	We've got, you can holler. They'll pick you up. Say, hey. There you go. When you send your kids to
0:44.7	private school, I'm telling you they never go. It's not even private school, even public school.
0:48.0	What is this half day? You know, this half day thing where they're just with you all the time. Secretly, I love it, though, because I only have six more summers until she's 18. So it's a blessing to get that extra time. But she is here
0:58.7	today, and it's a good chat for her to be here for because I want to talk about what's happening
1:04.6	on the internet. I know I'm not the only one. Raise your hand if you feel like the internet has gotten a lot meaner in the last five years. Am I right? Yeah, you can't see. She's giving us a hand raise, right? The internet's gotten meaner. And it's part of why we don't have our little one on the internet. You know, she's aware of it. She interacts with it, you know, with supervision and definitely through her friends, you know, because they tell her about TikTok. She's witnessed bullying situations. But, you know, we have a pretty strict rule and we've had it for all
1:32.6	three of our girls that you don't get to touch the internet until you're at least 16 and that's
1:37.0	limited until you get older. So the reason why is because mommy's on the internet and mommy
1:42.6	works there and it can get real icky.
1:45.2	And I think a lot of us realize this.
1:47.0	So I'm wondering if this message might be reaching you where you either are on the internet regularly.
1:52.1	Maybe you work in social media.
1:54.1	Maybe it's part of your business, you know, or you interact heavily like you consume a lot and you've witnessed a lot of crazy stuff, right?
2:02.1	Or you're someone who wants to be and is interested in either starting a business or doing
2:08.9	influencer work or even just engaging with people online, whether it's reporting pop culture,
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