Ep 257: How To Survive on Social Media in 2025

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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As the headlines get harder, the politics more divisive, and the platforms themselves more corrupt, many of us are rethinking our social media usage in 2025. Yeah, sure, we've all said this before in the past. So we take breaks, or delete the apps off our phones, but we always come crawling back. Social media is just an ingrained part of our lives now. It's where we get our news, it's how we connect with others, it's a source of entertainment and expression. And yet...there is something different about this moment in internet history. People really are fed up, but it also seems impossible to quit cold turkey. There has to be a middle ground between spending large chunks of our day scrolling and walking away from social media completely. In this episode I'm walking through my own personal process of changing my relationship with my phone. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE MENTIONED in this episode: Opal app RELATED episodes: Ep 253: Regrets and Reflections After 15 Years of Working on the Internet Ep 246: A Funeral for Twitter Ep 211: The Cell Phone Contract (A conversation with my kids) SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN Laura Tremaine’s SECRET SUBSTACK BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.1	More than any other time in my 15 years of working on the internet and even longer of being
1:36.1	a person who is chronically online, extremely online, more than any other time, people are reconsidering their relationship to social
1:49.3	media. Now, there have been ups and downs over the years. Election years are always hard.
1:56.4	The pandemic gave us all kinds of wonky feelings about our screens. That big Facebook data breach
2:05.6	in 2018 was eye-opening for a lot of us. But right now, it really feels like there's a tipping
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