We Ruined Travel for Instagram Likes

There Are No Girls on the Internet

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Technology

4.4 • 820 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Let's escape December's darkness with a mental vacation to some exotic travel locales. Tulum! Bali! Lisbon! Millions of people visit these popular tourist destinations, but why? Is it for personal growth and discovery, or are we just chasing social rewards by notching another iconic photo on our Instagram page? Maybe it's both!

The idea that "social media has ruined travel" gets brought up a lot by grumbly Internet curmudgeons, but is it true? Bridget took a look at what social science has to say about it and discussed what she found with Producer Mike.

Read the research article by Drs. Lauren A. Siegel, Iis Tussyadiah, and Caroline Scarles

https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2022.2086451

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0:33.9	There are no girls on the internet
0:35.3	as a production of IHeart Radio
0:36.7	and Unbossed Creative.
0:42.0	I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.
0:47.8	So, Mike, as I know you know, and some of the listeners by now know if you listened to the last few episodes,
0:53.3	I have had kind of a rough
0:54.7	few months. And during that time, I've basically stopped using social media. I just didn't
1:00.3	really have a ton to update anybody on other than, you know, another day in the hospital with my dad.
1:06.9	And honestly, it was getting to the point where scrolling social media would make me feel bad because when I did check in with what folks were doing online, I was then confronted with all of the ways that everybody around me continued to live their lives while mine had essentially stopped.
1:22.3	So during that time when I was off social media, when I took the occasional trip or did the occasional traveling,
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