Social Media is Ruining Hobbies
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
TikTok is all about hobbies right now and hobbies are great but if you’re not careful you could end up with thousands of dollars wasted and nothing to show for it but a hobby graveyard. So today we’re talking about all the hobbies social media is ruining and how you can avoid being financially ruined by them.
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| 0:29.9 | Social media is ruining hobbies. |
| 0:37.3 | Welcome to the Frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich life. |
| 0:47.1 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:53.2 | Hey, Frugal Friends, I'm Jen. |
| 0:55.1 | I'm Jill. |
| 0:56.2 | And we have an episode that I am very excited about today. |
| 1:01.8 | I have a question. |
| 1:03.2 | Are you suffering from hobby hopping? |
| 1:07.3 | Be honest. |
| 1:08.6 | Rating different hobbies that I've tried as a chronic serial hobbyist who gets severely hyperfixated on hobbies, buys everything that I need to perfect that hobby, and then abandons it a couple days later. |
| 1:18.3 | TikTok is all about hobbies right now. I don't know when it happened. I don't know how it happened. |
| 1:25.3 | But every other, like, video is something new that you can pick up. |
| 1:32.9 | In addition to working to become a millionaire, starting your own business, dressing yourself |
| 1:41.9 | with lots of clothes, and getting, cars, you also have to pick up a hobby. |
| 1:51.3 | So if you're not careful, you could end up with thousands of dollars wasted and what social media is calling a hobby graveyard. |
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