📲 Jonesy & Amanda's Fascinating Chat About Social Media

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm interested to know how you feel about this, Brendon,
because I've got to say similar age, although you are
seven years younger than I am. Okay, it was my
son's birthday, Jack.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
I managed to hang out with him on over his birthday.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
The night before his birthday, he was at the pub
with his friends.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I was holding his hand in the pub. I said,
I'm going to hold I'm going to hold on to
you forever. And then he said, okay, there's seven minutes
till midnight. I said, I'm up for it.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
So his birthday kicked over. He had been at the
pub since one o'clock and you were there with him
at midnight. But I didn't put anything on my so
I suddenly remember realized this morning I hadn't put anything
on my social media wishing Jack a happy birthday, and
I felt guilty. I mean, if it's my dad's birthday

(00:48):
or whatever, you know, he's not on social media. All
that sort of stuff doesn't matter. But would it matter
to Jack? And I thought, here's this constant guilt now
that if you don't express an emotion on Instagram, it's
like you don't care. Did it happen and Jack knows
I care obviously have anybody last night and spent the day.
Of course he knows that. But we're now agonized if

(01:10):
you forget to put something on social.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Media, and this is agonized through ourselves. I don't think
other people would judge you. I don't think people would say, oh,
you know, a Manda Kella didn't say happy birthday to
her son. I think it's the expectation of social media.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
We on ourselves.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah, and we do. Because Mother's Day came around. I
don't usually post anything on Mother's Day, and I thought
I should have pasted something on Mother's Day.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
But Helen or your mom just for.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Mom and you know, the moms of the world and
right one of those worthy things that people seem to write,
and there's a pressure. I think it's I think it's
solely pressure on yourself. There was a time before social media.
Often wonder in those quiet moments when I used to
come home and have a cup of tea, what did
I do before I got my iPhone? What did I do?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
How did we spend our time? Time?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
And I used to like, you know what I used
to do when we're kids, and we'd have cereal in
the morning I'd read the serial box. Cerial Box would
be sitting in front of and I read it. You
know nyasin and all that chunk and ribe a flavor
and iron and also to be a spit card so
you didn't have to see your siblings eating their cereal,
because that was the worst thing in the world to
watch your sibling eats.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
All the time we do, so it's a shame. It's shaming,
isn't it When my phone says you spent this many hours?
But also I scroll through things for work to find
topics and things like that, I feel like yelling at
my phone. Don't shame me. But also I'm on a
couple of WhatsApp groups and some of them cross over
with each other with my friends of different groups. And
if it's someone's birthday, even if I've texted them separated
say happy birthday, if everyone else in the Whatsap group

(02:36):
is wishing them a happy birthday, I have to get
on that group. Think I feel so that I'm seen
to be wishing them a happy birthday even though I've
done it privately. Yeah, it's exhausting.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I can't be a part of a new WhatsApp group.
I've got too many as it is, and that's it.
And people say you should be on this, people that
ride on Saturdays and.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Sundays, and I've got to do friendship groups.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
I'm not doing that. No, it's too much, but it is.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
And so Jack, if you're listening to this, have you
been twenty seven? Unlikely?

Speaker 1 (03:03):
But let's call it.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
His birthday was yesterday and Lims is on Thursday. And now,
obviously I can't do a social post for leb.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
I know you can't know, or just to stir Jack
up to my favorite son, the heir to the Keller fortune,
don't the king of the castle.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
It's it's a pressure, isn't it that you, as you say,
quite rightly, we put on.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's only on yourself. I don't think anyone would judge
you for And no one cares about what anyone posts
on social media. That's the thing, is that true. No
one cares.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Woul Jack care that I didn't do it.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
No, he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I'm going to text him and ask him, Hey, who's it?
Did you mind?

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I didn't do anything, not even listening to the good
old radio, which has been around since Marconi invented it.