00:00Lucy Fink here and if you remember correctly I'm the girl who quit social
00:04media for five days on an episode of Try Living with Lucy. So I'm bringing this
00:07topic to the streets because I want to know what do you think about social
00:12media? How many hours a day would you say that you spend on social media?
00:18Around three. Three hours a day. Two hours. Two, three. I feel like that's a lot. I get
00:25messages from Facebook and I try to figure out how to use it but I don't know.
00:29Like six or seven hours. At least half the day. Twelve. Twelve hours!
00:33Oh gosh what does that mean? How frequently do you go navigating back to those apps?
00:38Probably to stay awake in class. I'm checking it. All the time. Like in between
00:43classes or right before going to bed while eating sometimes. I'm gonna send you a
00:46poke. Oh a poke? You've been poked on Facebook. What does it mean? Hey Eric. Hey. Okay.
00:52I think. What are your favorite social media apps of all time? I have a Blackberry
00:57and I don't get that many apps on it. Facebook, Instagram. Can you do Instagram on a Blackberry?
01:03I can. But it is called Inst10 and it is just looks different. But it is Instagram.
01:08Instagram. A tweet. I don't know what it is. Do you like looking at everyone's pictures or
01:12do you kind of feel FOMO? Does it bring you down? I definitely don't feel FOMO at all because
01:17I always like dropping in and saying hey that looks so cool. We should do that together sometime.
01:22If it's like someone who I love and I'm really good friends with, I love like seeing what
01:25they're posting. I actually just unfriended like 400 people on Facebook. If my friends
01:29are out on the beach and I'm sitting here in the cold, I'm probably jealous. I don't really
01:34feel bad about not going out. I try to follow people that are really like positive and inspirational.
01:40What if I took your phone right now and I was like I'm deleting all of your social media
01:44apps for five days. Disconnected. Super disconnected. I would feel left out of like the political realm
01:51that I couldn't share. I would probably appreciate that. I'd probably just jump on my laptop and
01:56then find a find a way around it. What would I do during class? That is ridiculous. I'd slap
02:01you in the face. Back off from my social media. Okay so I won't do that to you. Do you
02:07think
02:07that social media has done more harm in the world or more good? Both equally because people
02:14can be mean on social media but at the same time it helps bring people together. I think it's
02:18done a lot of harm. I think it can be used for good and like it has done good things
02:22too. It does bring a lot of issues to light that people normally wouldn't see. I see so
02:28many beautiful things on social media such as people posting about maybe like the refugees.
02:35We have to address kind of like being honest and being real with how we use our social media.
02:39Can I see your feed and see how much I can gauge about you as a person? Friendly guy, gym
02:44lover,
02:44foodie, world traveler. You always like a little fast food. Of course. You have a girlfriend.
02:50That's my mother. I understand if you don't want to be friends anymore. That's okay. You want to be
02:57part of my snapchat today? What does it mean? I need to find somebody who's in his or her 20s
03:04and
03:04sit down with me and figure out how I access it. Nice to meet you. My name's Lucy. As it
03:10turns out of
03:11the people I polled today, most people spend an average of four hours a day on social media.
03:16People would actually thank me if I deleted their apps for a week. And people think that social
03:21media is doing more good than bad in the world. Hashtag blessed. What do you think about social
03:27media? Comment below. Let me know. And thanks for watching. Oh my god. I just saw his mom was his
03:32girlfriend. Hey guys. Lucy Fink here from Try Living with Lucy. And what do you think? Subscribe to
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03:43in New York.
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