00:00Lucy Fink here, and if you remember correctly, I'm the girl who quit social media for five
00:04days on an episode of Try Living with Lucy.
00:06So I'm bringing this topic to the streets because I want to know, what do you think
00:11about social media?
00:13How many hours a day would you say that you spend on social media?
00:18Around three.
00:20Three hours a day.
00:21Two hours.
00:22Two, three.
00:23I feel like that's a lot.
00:24I get messages from Facebook and I try to figure out how to use it, but I don't know.
00:29It's like six or seven hours.
00:30At least half the day.
00:31Twelve.
00:32Twelve hours!
00:33Oh, gosh.
00:34What does that mean?
00:35How frequently do you go navigating back to those apps?
00:38Probably to stay awake in class.
00:40I'm checking it.
00:41All the time.
00:42Like in between classes or right before going to bed, while eating sometimes.
00:46I'm going to send you a poke.
00:47Oh, a poke?
00:47You've been poked on Facebook.
00:49Yeah.
00:49What does it mean?
00:50Hey, Eric.
00:51Yeah?
00:51Hey.
00:51Okay.
00:52I think.
00:53What are your favorite social media apps of all time?
00:56I have a Blackberry and I don't get that many apps on it.
01:01Facebook, Instagram.
01:02Can you do Instagram on a Blackberry?
01:03I can, but it is called Inst10 and it just looks different.
01:07What it is?
01:08Instagram.
01:08Instagram.
01:09A tweet.
01:10I don't know what it is.
01:11Do you like looking at everyone's pictures or do you kind of feel FOMO?
01:13Does it bring you down?
01:15I definitely don't feel FOMO at all because I always like dropping in and saying, hey,
01:19that looks so cool.
01:20We should do that together sometime.
01:22If it's someone who I love and I'm really good friends with, I love seeing what they're
01:25posting.
01:26I actually just unfriended like 400 people on Facebook.
01:29If my friends are out on the beach and I'm sitting here in the cold, I'm probably jealous.
01:33I don't really feel bad about not going out.
01:36I try to follow people that are really positive and inspirational.
01:40What if I took your phone right now and I was like, I'm deleting all of your social
01:44media apps for five days.
01:47Disconnected.
01:47Super disconnected.
01:48I would feel left out of like the political realm that I couldn't share.
01:52I would probably appreciate that.
01:54I'd probably just jump on my laptop and then find a way around it.
01:58What would I do during class?
02:00That is ridiculous.
02:01I'd slap you in the face.
02:03Back off from my social media.
02:05Okay, so I won't do that to you.
02:06Do you think that social media has done more harm in the world or more good?
02:11Both equally because people can be mean on social media, but at the same time it helps
02:17bring people together.
02:18I think it's done a lot of harm.
02:19I feel like, I think it can be used for good and like it has done good things too.
02:23It does bring a lot of issues to light that people normally wouldn't see.
02:27I see so many beautiful things on social media such as people posting about maybe like
02:34the refugees.
02:34We have to address kind of like being honest and being real with how we use our social
02:39media.
02:39Can I see your feed and see how much I can gauge about you as a person?
02:43Friendly guy, gym lover, foodie, world traveler.
02:47You always like a little fast food.
02:49Of course.
02:49You have a girlfriend.
02:50That's my mother.
02:54I understand if you don't want to be friends anymore.
02:56That's okay.
02:57You want to be part of my Snapchat today?
02:59What does it mean?
03:00I need to find somebody who's in his or her twenties and sit down with me and figure out
03:06how I access it.
03:07Nice to meet you.
03:08My name's Lucy.
03:09Hi.
03:09As it turns out, of the people I polled today, most people spend an average of four hours
03:14a day on social media.
03:16People would actually thank me if I deleted their apps for a week.
03:19And people think that social media is doing more good than bad in the world.
03:30Oh my god, I just thought his mom was his girlfriend.
