Freya India
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Seeing your launch of a partner online.
loads of data around backup mates come on but yeah i just think ultimately uh we should celebrate and try and cultivate more opposite sex friendships because it could be a pathway to to proper i wonder if on social media that uh disincentivizes opposite sex friendships because you live in different worlds completely so that we were talking earlier and you hadn't heard of influences that like shaped my childhood how did i not know moella whatever
But it's like Zoella, but also Facetune.
Facetune is a huge app among young women where they can edit themselves.
So I think I've
One of the statistics in my book is like 70 or 80% of young women wouldn't post on Instagram without face tuning themselves first.
But it's been downloaded like hundreds of millions of times.
It's a core memory from my childhood.
But then, so I write this whole book about social media and the experience for young women.
But then for young men, they have a completely different childhood.
So it can be a young man that grew up near me.
I did play RuneScape.
I'm a bit more masculine, yeah.
But yeah, they will not even recognize things that were huge influences on young women.
And so I wonder if we try and be friends with the opposite sex, it's like a whole different world because algorithms are suggesting- You already didn't have that much in common and now you've got even less.
Yeah, I was going to say, he's more effortlessly good looking.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But isn't he more handsome because his demeanor?
He's playful and he's smirking.
I feel like Clavicula just looks so tense and neurotic almost.