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Chapter 1: What are the implications of banning social media for under 16s?
We are social media. So are we the problem? I think actually the kids would prefer to not have that pressure. In Nando's, the three of us shouted round Ailey's phone doing a puzzle. It's me going, and this word here is an anagram indicator.
Welcome back to Overheard This Week, you guys. This is the episode where we debrief the week, talk about what's going on, news topics, stories, trends, trend alerts, and the fake news. So welcome. This is what we've been chatting about.
Happy Friday, guys. We made it. We did it.
Another week down. And this week is actually the first week of the kids going back to school in the UK. We hope that you enjoyed being able to pee alone. And just having that breathing space again. Do you know who you are, Moana? You know just who you are. You found yourself again. I have.
Chapter 2: How does brain training with minute cryptics work?
We're definitely going to find ourselves again. The version of ourselves back in the day. Bebo's back.
I heard this on our Patreon chat and I'm nervous. I'm actually nervous. What if it just uploads? How many times have we said before, right, that the whole phrase, the internet never forgets, is a lie because Bebo's gone. They need to start from scratch. All the pictures of Bebo are gone. So what if they just one day appear on the internet again?
I can't have my wannabe emo scene kids pop back up. Surely they're not. Surely their server hasn't. Somebody's definitely forgot that password to all our stuff back then.
Yeah, nobody's still got that email address. XO underscore little L-I-T-T-O underscore.
s-e-x-i underscore oh I thought mine was like wee ash xx underscore wee underscore ash underscore f spelt e-double-f underscore xx to balance out the beginning of course you're trying to get as pretty as possible x underscore x underscore x underscore x at hotmail.com
I wonder if there's still people who use their young email address as an adult.
It's embarrassing. Like, hi, we're just setting up your mortgage.
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Chapter 3: What controversial elements are featured in the new Euphoria series?
What's your email address? Hi. It's wee sexy.
Everyone put themselves as wee sexy. I know. The boldness of that. The boldness of 12-year-old us writing weesexyash at hotmail.com. I mean, that was before the self-doubt got us all. That's true.
So do you think people will actually go back to using Bebo again? Because I actually think kids would love the idea of making their profile and customising it all and doing all that again. That was such a fun thing about it.
They don't really have that now. They don't really have that now. But the other thing I would say, it's not being optimised for the iOS.
do you know what I mean it's like we've never used people necessarily on our phones as an app yeah we did sometimes log into the web browser on your phone to try and get into it and that was really hard to do remember because you wanted to take your love back or something yeah yeah so stuff like that whenever moment it was it was very much a desktop situation yeah and it's funny right because I've seen a lot of chat recently about like
get Keir Starmer to put the age up for kids to have social media and whatever else. However, we're saying that as if we have not already lived through that ourselves. But is that why?
Is that why?
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Chapter 4: How does social media affect mental health in children?
Because there's so many people that are our age now that have like mental health problems. Is that why?
Laurie did a thumbs up, by the way, for the audio listener.
It was just for the visual listeners benefit. Is that why? Is it almost going like, I know why I've kind of got here now? if I wasn't comparing myself on social media for all these years.
It's also times a million now. The fact that everyone's got phones and then they're at night time. See, when I was in school, we had Bebo, but everyone wasn't on it all the time. Everyone didn't have group chats.
There was a cut off point because you had to leave it at home.
And you also had to dial up the internet. And your mum needed to phone to phone your gran and all that. Nine o'clock was cut off. And then see when you went to your bed, like... I went to my bed with an iPod and I would listen to music. Which we need to bring back, by the way. We really need to bring back. But...
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Chapter 5: What are the consequences of children having unrestricted access to social media?
Yeah, I don't know. I'm actually kind of for and against the kids not having social media.
I'm actually all for it. I would fully ban it. I'm on the extreme. I would fully ban it until they're 16. But the annoying thing is you're not meant to sign up for it until you're 16. I know people do go around it, which I get, right? But I think it should be... No, it's not a 16 for social media.
Some of them are. No, it's 14... Is it not 13 for TikTok? I thought TikTok went up. No. It's like 13 or 14 for TikTok. And then for Instagram, you get the young version. Instagram are trying. They've got the young version of Instagram. It's the Instagram teen. That's what they're rolling out. They're rolling it out.
Chapter 6: How do societal pressures influence cosmetic surgery decisions?
I think actually the kids would prefer to not have that pressure on them. It's almost like you have to do it. It's the same with phones. At Oliver and Marcus' school, they have a thing that's like... I can't remember what they call it. But it's like an agreement... the kids don't get phones until they're 12 or something like that.
Some of the mums obviously do it anyway, but it's good to know that you're not being like, my kid's going to be the only one that's not got one. Because everyone's doing it, and then the kids don't feel the pressure anyway, do you know what I mean?
But I suppose my kids never got, Charlie doesn't use a phone anymore, but Ella never got a phone for social media.
Elle got a phone to stay in touch with her pals which was actually the main reason why phones were there to begin with hers was always for the means of communication everyone's on FaceTime with each other I want to join in on the chat it's pals that live further away it was keeping them in touch it was staying in touch with Caleb Norris because he obviously is down south and like he would obviously not be able to come and see her and stuff so things like that that was the intended purpose but I have to like
Not that I fully disagree with the notion of like not having kids on social media, right? Or like banning it. I don't disagree with it in its entirety, right? But part of me does go, social media is a culmination of everybody else's life, right? So are we the problem, right? Social media is just a platform. It exists, right? But the problem with social media is the people on social media.
So is it like a mindset shift? Is it people need to change rather than the actual...
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Chapter 7: What are the differences between past and present beauty standards?
apps themselves. Do you know what I mean?
We are social media.
I don't mean us because we're on it. I'm talking about every single person who has an Instagram account, a TikTok account, whatever way you use that. We are social media. So are we the problem rather than the actual app?
I think the social media has made, has changed us all. I think everyone is different because of that. Like, the people now... I feel like people now are way more competitive in comparing their lives and, like, posting things for validation. Yeah. Way more. Like, see, even if you look back at, like, pre-social media age, right, people didn't used to make as much effort with anything.
People's houses were not, like, the way they are now.
Yeah, true.
And it's, like, you're obviously seeing other people's houses and then people start to make more of an effort with that and then everything is, like... More pressure than it used to ever be.
We're more uptight about things, you think? 100%.
Think about the albums that we would post, right?
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Chapter 8: What stories do listeners share about their own experiences with social media?
Common, Thursday night. You would upload a full album of the date. Think about those pictures. You would be doing shots. You would be pulling mental faces. You'd be... It would be the... It was real life. It was like the carnage from start to finish. Whereas now you put up a carousel
of that night and it's like all the pictures before and a picture will not really go up if you think that you look if you think it's a bad picture of you we're not going to do that anymore everything's pure curated and then everyone ends up looking at it and being like right I need to make sure my life looks like that as well and there's so many
I'm just ranting now right but there's so many things that like you see people do I can't think of an example off the top of my head where you go I don't even think you're doing that for your own enjoyment I think that is literally just so that you can post that on social media yep like you're living your life you're living your life for the gram rather than actually enjoying it especially like taking your kids places making sure you get photos of them specific places specific times and
It's literally just so that you can say to other people, look how good I am, look how well I'm doing. We never used to have that. Your mum's never used to be like that at all. I do think it's changed everyone in every way.
But mums are way more actively involved with their kids now than ever because of the pressure of those types of posts. Or do they just look like it?
do you know what I mean though so it's almost like it kind of has the bit where it goes the full circle where it's like people are posting themselves doing things like go and stand next to that chicken and get a picture at the farm park that we're at today whatever it is right and then the other mums are like oh I really should be doing more things with my kids
there is very much like it can go the other end where people are feeling like the pressure but I go like our mum's generations weren't doing as much as what our generation of mums do with our kids now but then is that all to do with the fact that the likes of jobs like social media have come in now and people like us pure grateful that we can spend so much time like if I compare how much time I get to spend with my kids compared to how much time my mother spent with me my mother my mum spent with me like it's night and day because she just never had that option
So it's also that's the pressure of the holidays as well. Because people say that now where they're like, I need to find, I need to get them into camps. I need to take them to all the different farm parks. They need to go to this, need to go to that. Whereas we would just get left to like go and hang out with your pals. But that was never a bad thing. It was like going.
I think that's another reason why kids have.
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