Nicole McNichols

Social media can be a fun way to connect.

It can be entertainment.

It can be a way to get your mind off something for a little bit.

But it can also...

become this obsessive scrolling that is just kind of a mind-numbing waste of time.

And so it's the same thing with porn.

It's like social media can fit nicely into your life.

It can give you inspiration for things you want to try and different looks or whatever it is that you're into.

But when it becomes something that you're on for hours and hours and hours, and when it's keeping you from getting up and talking to your partner, it's kind of doing the same thing that porn is doing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right, right.

But even if the content has nothing at all to do with sex, I mean, these algorithms are crazy.

Like the ability for TikTok to keep feeding you videos about whatever thing you've just watched that's making you anxious, whether it's something about politics or some conspiracy thing or, you know, some... There was a study that just came out.

Yeah, I'm not surprising.

I'm not surprised Yeah, exactly.

It's crazy.

You go down the rabbit hole.

And yet telling people not to watch it at all is just not a reasonable solution.

I mean, these forms of media are here to stay, whether we like it or not.