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Farida Sami Sakr 0:02
Hey, I know you got tired. Let's continue. Okay. So,

Unknown 0:16
okay.

Unknown 0:22
Do you? Do you think taking a break from social media can help produce people who have formal why or not? Why not? Some, sometimes people decide to like cut off all social media to prevent themselves from feeling formal. You actually admitted that some people like half FOMO. So you said that, like other people, you think other people experience FOMO when they see social media posts. So do you think if they actually take a break from social media, this will reduce the the FOMO they have, yes, for sure.

Unknown 1:03
It will reduce it because they will even not to know any, any new, any something new concerning the others.

Unknown 1:13
Okay, so it will reduce, I think that this will reduce from my point of view, okay, so, by

Unknown 1:20
the way, I have many of my friends

Unknown 1:21
didn't open all the filler platforms for for a while. For one, for two months, they decided,

Unknown 1:28
okay, so they make a social media detox. Yes, yes. They take a break from social media. Yes. And did they tell you about the experience? Yes,

Unknown 1:37
I have one with my friend. She's called heaven. She insists every year that for almost three months or four she refused to deal with all the platforms. And she said to us, don't send for me any message on Facebook, on Instagram, okay, if you want me, call me. I'm not going to open any platform.

Unknown 1:59
Okay, so why? Why does well, that

Unknown 2:02
that when she, when she do this, she is feeling relaxed and not stressed.

Unknown 2:09
Okay, so why is she usually stressed? Do you think when she she uses social media?

Unknown 2:13
I think that she's suffering

Unknown 2:17
from suffering from FOMO. So she's so she decided

Unknown 2:20
to take a break. Okay? And is it the whole year? Any month is four months. And she told us, before take care, I'm not going to call to communicate with anybody through the platforms, Facebook, Instagram, if you want me, call me. Okay,

Unknown 2:38
so did she What does she tell you about this experience in general?

Unknown 2:47
After her period, she said that it's nice for me. I think that I felt that are much better when I when I took a break from

Unknown 2:59
the older social media. Oh, so she, felt relaxed after that. Yes, three years, the third year to take a break each year, each year. Yes, okay, so um,

Unknown 3:11
she's an old school by the way. She said, if you want me urgently, call me. Don't send for me a message. Especially she refused this way in her birthday celebration and anything concerning her good event, she don't like anybody to communicate with her through the platform. She think that it's toxic. How come that I can say to another body Happy Birthday? During through a massive I can call him to say happy birthday. You

Unknown 3:40
can do wolf actually,

Unknown 3:43
most of our generation use only one way communication now, message, Facebook, Instagram, a little bit would deal with it with through a call and the message. Call a message to say, Happy Birthday.

Unknown 4:00
Okay, so she personally prefers What do you, what do you? What do

Unknown 4:04
you? Would you? Would you like to say happy birthday to any of your friend? You did both of them. You sent them a sent a message, and you call them

Unknown 4:11
two. No, I actually do either text or call Yes.

Unknown 4:15
She refused the text. Okay,

Unknown 4:17
so I uh, so, so, okay, so, let me go to the next question. How. How do you think social media is creating a culture? Do you think social media is creating a culture where people prioritize visual presence or over real life experiences, yes,

Unknown 4:49
especially in your

Unknown 4:52
community. So I don't quite understand what you're saying.

Unknown 4:57
Yes, especially music. I think, from my point of view, that it's make a culture. I It's create a culture. No,

Unknown 5:04
you don't understand my question. I'm saying, does do you think social media is creating a culture where people pride your eyes actually in home, like like people when they go out, they're actually want, they want to take photos to post it on their social media instead of actually enjoying the moment.

Unknown 5:25
Yes, no, no, I think that they don't enjoy the moment. We are getting to take the fear, but we didn't care to enjoy this moment.

Unknown 5:40
Okay? So people don't usually like, don't don't like. They aren't doing it to actually feel good about themselves. They just want to show how to people, how, how, how good their life is. And maybe it's actually a fake reality.

Unknown 6:01
As we said before this, it's fake. It's not

Unknown 6:05
true. Okay, so do you think, by

Unknown 6:08
the way, Farida, the same people who always posted their events only they are suffering, and they said that later, don't take our photos and our comics that it's real.

Unknown 6:23
Okay, so, so why don't you? Why do Why didn't you ask whoever in this situation, why do we actually post that you have a good life if you're actually suffering?

Unknown 6:35
They said that because it's not their answer. Then they replied that because it's not normal to post my suffering, to post my bad events, to post they think from their point of view.

Unknown 6:49
Okay? So they say, I'm not actually having a good life and like stuff. So why are you posting about having a good life? I just understand

Unknown 7:02
you this one, please. Understand you.

Unknown 7:03
This one, please. You don't understand. You don't understand what exactly. Okay, so, okay, are there any benefits to FOMO that that the the that you think people overlook? Please, clear. Do you think there are any benefits to people feeling FOMO that you think people overlook? Do you think FOMO has any advantages?

Unknown 7:40
Advantages. Maybe, maybe, from my point of view, maybe that when you are Sophie, that you are that you, when you felt that you're missing something, you are trying to get it, exert more effort to get

Unknown 7:59
it. Oh, yeah, exactly. That's what I mean. So actually, FOMO could have a good effect on the people,

Unknown 8:06
maybe. But from my point of view, it is very small percentage. Very

Unknown 8:11
small percentage. Yes, yeah. I also think that's true sometimes when you see that, for example, when I'm scrolling through social media and like I found, I find someone with a good looking body, and I don't have a good looking body, I'll work on myself so that I actually reach a good weight, or a weight where impossible it is not. If I see someone in a good relationship with their mom, for example, I would go around and and like I miss this so, so I'll go around to improve my relationship with my mother, for example. If I agree with you, if I don't, has benefits,

Unknown 8:47
and it has it has pros and and goals. Excuse

Unknown 8:54
me, what's everything? Pros and cons? Yes, pros and cons. Okay, so what are the cons?

Unknown 9:11
Okay, so what do you think are the cons? I was asking you about the cons of like, are you me of FOMO. What do you think are the cons of foam? From

Unknown 9:24
my point of view, it has pros and

Unknown 9:28
cons. Yes, what we said the pros that it could actually push someone to actually improve. So what are whatever

Unknown 9:39
they can exert much effort to reach as an example, to raise the level, academic level, to raise their income, seeing the posters of the others. Why the cause? I think, I think, from my point of view to the bad side of the people, like when as an example, I told you before when someone missed her mother.

Unknown 10:04
So yeah, and in this example, specifically, sometimes you're in a situation where you have nothing to do about, for example, an illness someone died. So for example, a girl that that is this mother died when she was young, for example, she doesn't have a hand in it, so So unfortunately, she can't fix it, or it's unfixable, so

Unknown 10:27
it's reflecting negatively, yeah,

Unknown 10:29
so it affects her, yeah. Okay, so let me get to the next question. How do you balance staying connected on social media while managing the potential of negative emotion? It can cause. Social media causes negative effects on multiple for example, I'm I suffer from my body image. So when I when I see like thin people on social media. This affects me mentally. What about you? How does How do you balance between staying on social media and managing the negative emotions that can cause I'm

Unknown 11:13
trying. That's why I told you, that I believe that this is not by convinced my myself that this is not the real life. It's fake life.

Unknown 11:24
You keep telling you keep telling yourself, whenever you see something that's that's okay, this is not the truth. Okay? For example, I know someone, someone posted a post with her boyfriend, and you don't have a boyfriend, how does this okay? So she's obviously not faking being in a relationship. So how does this affect you?

Unknown 11:48
I'm trying hard to overcome any negative

Unknown 11:51
feeling. Okay? So what do you tell yourself? Like, tell me what you keep telling yourself, this is not

Unknown 11:57
the suitable time for me as an example, to get engaged. It's not never the suitable time for me to get married. Okay,

Unknown 12:07
so you keep convincing yourself that the like, there's no like,

Unknown 12:14
something, reason to be sad, yeah. Okay,

Unknown 12:17
so you that you're optimistic, alive, yes. Okay,

Unknown 12:22
I always try to take the bright side from each situation, from each post, from each comics.

Unknown 12:26
Okay, so how do you think social media influencers specifically contribute to FOMO, to our followers, for example? Let me give you an example. Some influencers like show each week that they're actually traveling, and sometimes this traveling is paid by the agency they work in and stuff, and they like keep taking photos and stuff. It's their work. Okay, so do you think they they cause FOMO to to their followers, for example, as a follower? Do you think a follower would feel formal from the influencers, content, content, yeah, I don't think so.

Unknown 13:08
I'm nobody doing this.

Unknown 13:11
Okay, so do you think

Unknown 13:12
that it's his work? He's going to post that he's traveling, but I know that he didn't pay anything in this trip as an example.

Unknown 13:22
Okay, so you don't, you don't think, okay, that's you do. You think other people could get formal from from watching the influencers continue

Unknown 13:31
the social influencer

Unknown 13:33
always forming from losing followers. They are always suffering and forming from loser following for them, you know, so now

Unknown 13:45
you're using FOMO in the wrong context. FOMO doesn't mean like I'm asking you, will the followers of the influencer feel like they're actually missing out the followers, not not the Okay, of course, an influencer might be scared that they might lose followers, but you're using FOMO in the wrong context.

Unknown 14:07
Why? In the wrong context? From my point of view, the influencers are always forming of losing their followers

Unknown 14:14
because they are getting money for each followers. Yeah, they

Unknown 14:17
are afraid, okay, but there's not nothing they are fear of missing out on how come, when you

Unknown 14:23
have about 10,000 is like when you have a followers?

Unknown 14:26
Yes, that's fear of missing followers. That's not FOMO. Okay, so, so you, I'm asking my question here is not whether they fear losing followers or not. I'm asking does the follower? Does the follower has? Does the follower feel formal when they see the content that the influencer they're following is posting? Okay? Answer the question, yes. Farida,

Unknown 15:00
could you please repeat it? Please?

Unknown 15:03
Okay, so I was saying, Do you think that the that when an influencer posts something to their followers, their followers will feel formal. For example, if an influencer is in Maldives or something, will their influencers feel for sure,

Unknown 15:19
as an example, I like Dina dash, so I liked her trips with her husband, yeah, so for sure, when I saw her in the Maldives, I would like to go to Maldives.

Unknown 15:31
Okay, so, so you do feel formal sometimes towards influencers. You said first an hour interview, but you don't have, like, that much fun with it. But do you feel formal from influencers instead of your friends? Maybe that's the case only the influencer.

Unknown 15:48
I loved him so much. Okay, so,

Unknown 15:51
so the influencers you follow, why would you follow someone you don't love? You basically only follow the influencers you love. Do

Unknown 15:58
you know for your information, I don't

Unknown 16:04
follow any influencer. You don't follow you just you just said, I follow, I follow Dina the highlight,

Unknown 16:09
and I loved her, but I don't follow her.

Unknown 16:15
Okay, so, so you you saw, you saw our photos where you opened her account specifically without following her, to actually see their photos. So why don't you just follow her instead of, like, opening her account, and because I

Unknown 16:29
know quite well that they are working, it's their work. Okay,

Unknown 16:34
she's not,

Unknown 16:39
but I don't follow her. Okay?

Unknown 16:40
So if you, if you, if she's with her husband, she's not working, she's obviously on vacation. Okay, so, so actually, you might feel more towards some influencers you like, Yes,

Unknown 16:56
a little bit. Okay.

Unknown 17:00
So have you ever felt pressure to engage in activities or make purchases due to something you saw on social media? I never did this. Okay, so you never purchased something you saw on social media because like you saw everyone like wearing it or trying it, for example, a new restaurant that just popped up and everyone's hyping about it, you don't feel the need to actually like go and try it a little bit.

Unknown 17:36
It's a conversation between me and myself. I would like to go if it's okay, okay, if it's not, I'm not a feeling of missing it.

Unknown 17:45
Okay, so, and like, if a new movie just went into the theaters, and, like, everyone went to the theater, you don't feel like, um, you don't feel like,

Unknown 17:56
maybe if my friends told me that it's very it's very good content in the in the movie, and the it has a main concept.

Unknown 18:07
So, so there is so you will go, yeah, you'll be so do you go for your own enjoyment, or actually for like, to post on social media that you went to this movie and like, take a photo of it.

Unknown 18:20
No, I can deny that the social medias affect me.

Unknown 18:24
Okay, so you'll actually, you can post the the movie on, like, on your social media platforms that you which one? No, no, no,

Unknown 18:33
I'm not going to repost it because I didn't see it yet.

Unknown 18:35
I will get no. I mean, when you actually go to the movie, well, yeah, yes,

Unknown 18:40
I can write. I can write, my opinion concerning this film as an example, as an example, in as an example the movie.

Unknown 18:52
Okay, okay, so i What do you think are the positive and negative effects of social media in general on mental health

Unknown 19:08
in general? What

Unknown 19:09
on our mental health? Our mental health social media and our mental media

Unknown 19:15
has a great effect on our mental health.

Unknown 19:19
Okay, how soon its effect

Unknown 19:20
positively and negatively. Okay, so imagine when you open your Facebook or Instagram and you found that all the posters are concerning as an example for our for our days, Palestinian and Raza, yeah, for sure, I spent many days have depressed, of

Unknown 19:39
course, of course, and like I personally saw, like scenes that I can't sleep from, from them at night, because it was very heart aching, like it was very mentally draining as well.

Unknown 19:53
And why we boycott all the others restaurant that they support Israel, like McDonald's and Pizza Hut, no, because I feel guilty towards them.

Unknown 20:03
Yes, they used to do actually, boycotting Yes. Okay,

Unknown 20:11
so

Unknown 20:14
yeah, I'm sorry. I'm just like regaining my thoughts. Okay, so what other effects the social media affect our mental health? Do you think social media causes anxiety? For example, I know people that they go up and dress every day and put like full makeup on just to take a photo to post it on Instagram because she has to post post everyday, opposed to this, this causes stress and anxiety on like the body. You think that's true?

Unknown 20:49
Yes, I said at the beginning that the social media has a great effect on our mental health concerning the the positive events and the bad events?

Unknown 21:04
Yeah, so, so, so, what are the positive things of social media? In your opinion, positive, if it has anything positive, and my opinion, it doesn't have actually, anything positive.

Unknown 21:17
No, it has positive. It's make all the words near each other. You knew every day. You knew all you know, all the news of the words by just crying.

Unknown 21:27
Okay, I you can just watch the TV and turn on the news and read the read the newspaper

Unknown 21:32
interview that I can scroll my mobile, my I can open my platform, and I will have all the news of all the words, this is one of its benefit. I can the internet, and I can call my mother while she's traveling, my father while he's traveling, and I can see him also not calling him, only I can see and can talk to him. Video, so this is this, all of these reactions. It's, new,

Unknown 22:02
okay? And now, with the negative impact of

Unknown 22:05
all of this, it's forbidden. It's not allowed to call your mother while she's traveling, to call your father to see her, to see him, okay?

Unknown 22:15
So you not allowed, okay? I think that's the only perk of social media, to be honest,

Unknown 22:21
it's one of the main important thing and the main benefit from the social media and internet. Yeah, okay, that you're all going to know all the news from just scroll the screen, and you are going to talk to anybody through over the world in any time and see him.

Unknown 22:38
But this would actually bring some problems, in my opinion, like young, very young girls actually miss, use social media. Like many people actually misuse social media and, like, talk to strangers on the internet, like, so this

Unknown 22:52
depends on the person. This depends on the person. Are they he will go into the social media in a good way, or they are going to use it.

Unknown 23:02
So in your opinion, it's actually a choice. How you use social media? Yes. How do you do you make it impact your mental health depends on you. Yes. Would you think, course, okay, so do you think, oh, okay, so do you think? Do you think would you, would you take a social media detox every now and then, like sharing of all your social media accounts? Or you can do it.

Unknown 23:43
Yes. Actually, I did it the last Ramadan, and I just put for myself only 15 minutes during the day,

Unknown 23:51
only 15 minutes, and you were able, and you were able to achieve it. Yes, okay, so if I tell you, Okay, if I tell you, you won't have those 15 minutes even. What would you feel about it?

Unknown 24:06
From my point of view, I think that it's okay for me. I put for myself one one month. It's Ramadan, only 15 minutes.

Unknown 24:17
No. I mean, if even you don't make 15 minutes you just, you just got it off completely. For sure,

Unknown 24:24
I will miss you, my friends. The news

Unknown 24:28
all over the world, okay, but you, are you willing to do it, and you think you can actually achieve it? Yes, well, you will be tempted to talk to you all your phone, but you won't. Yes, okay, okay, our last question.

Unknown 24:47
Okay, so, what things do you think features or tools on any social media platform could implement to help produce FOMO, for example, what what features should Instagram or Facebook introduce to help people reduce their FOMO if, for example, post, stay only for six hours. I think this would be good six hours. Or like, what do you think a tool could could be done to actually, like, reduce, I think that it's good

Unknown 25:27
to assume for you. Oh, okay, so do the hours of the post that everyone posted. So this means the post will stay only for six hours and then it's gone. Yes. Yeah, I think six hours is good. And like, six hours very long. I think three hours for the post. Okay, three hours Yes, okay, okay. Thank you so much for this lovely interview. I really enjoyed our I really enjoyed our talk. Thank you. Thank you very then, bye really liked the conversation.

Unknown 26:05
your pronunciation.

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