Episode 18 - Social Media Blackout

Welcome back friends. We have quite the episode, and if you're reading this on social media, take time to appreciate the irony. Bryan Kane PhD read about a man who traveled the world for six months, with no phone or Internet and something about the man's blog spoke to him. He started to ask himself if he's paying too much attention to his phone, and what other people are doing rather than living in the moment. After spending some time at a vineyard and trying to take the perfect picture for snapchat, he had an out of body experience and decided that he needed to be more present in his own life, which means not looking for approval and likes on social media and spending more time with his friends and family. So he did the unthinkable and deleted his social media profiles. This gets us talking about social media. Are we spending too much time on it? By living vicariously through other people, are we being present in our own lives? Why do we feel like we always need to prove to our peers that we are relevant through platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc? Is social media ruining human connection? We attempt to answer these questions and more on this episode of Topicocalypse. We also breifly argue over how to pronounce vineyard? And we are the first podcast to ever make a Grapes of Wrath joke.  We're working hard to grow this podcast into something beautiful and we need your help. We would absolutely love if you could download, share, and subscrib to this podcast. If you're watching on YouTube. Click on the link below to go to one of our many download sites. If you have a few bucks to give, we have a patreon page at patreon.com/topicocalypse and if you don't, no worries. We still love you. As always, you can find us on the web on social media (haha) at Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. And you can download us on Podbean, iTunes, Google Play, Podcasts.com, Apple Podcasts, and other great podcasting outlets worldwide. If you happen to be on any Apple products, we would love if you could rate and review our podcast. We hope you enjoy the episode.