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Competing for attention online

it's like it's like oh i haven't brushed my teeth for a week so like i'm way worse than you guys are and like stuff like that people are like trying to outgun each other for who...

Course: Big questions in societySection: Views on social mediaSubtitles: en

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really yeah so

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it's like it's like oh i haven't brushed

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my teeth for a week so like i'm way

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worse than you guys are and like stuff

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like that

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people are like trying to outgun each

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other for who has the worst mental

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health like the worst trauma or whatever

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really like yeah it's really competitive

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so you then left tick tock because of

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that yeah i think the sort of passive

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scrolling yeah just watching say

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i'm very involved in mental health and

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emotional well-being children and young

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people okay and um

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it's that

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it's sort of noticing when you when you

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start having those thoughts around like

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comparing yourself with other people

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they can be quite subtle but they're

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quite toxic

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yeah you know just those sort of little

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subtle underlying

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oh she looks so happy or you know

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my life isn't as good as they're like

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yeah and that that's the bit that i

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think is

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um

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can get quite

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sort of toxic there were people that i

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knew on there and i knew they didn't

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kind of lead these uh you know glamorous

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millionaire looking lifestyles but yet

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their photos seem to kind of dictate

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that or indicate that interesting um

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i just thought it's too fake

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i kind of got a bit tired of it so i'm

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quite

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minimal on it really just for just for

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seeing people's holidays i'm interested

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in and what

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