Yeah, we get the irony of discussing this here, but buckle up because today's episode is about Chris’s favorite topic - social media (#not). What channels are GenXers on? Are the people we follow doing our generation proud or making us cringe? Do we even belong there? And what the fuck is an influencer? Tune in for all the good, the bad, the ugly, and the “whatevers” about the socials. because GenX has entered the chat.

Episode links

• Season 2’s Tech Episode: This is your brain on tech. Dammit
• Yeeting definition
• Eve’s accidental text to Lori
• GenX Social Media Stats
• Your Old MySpace Profile Is Still Taking Up Space on the Internet
• People Increasingly Turn To Social Media For News
• Everything you need to know about the internet's obsession with eating Tide pods
• The Role of Social Media in the Arab Uprisings
• What is an influencer?
• Is Social Media Addictive? Here’s What the Science Says
• GenX Social Media Influencers
• 6 Awesome Gen X Creators to Follow on TikTok
• Would Emily in Paris’s Bot-like Instagram Actually Go Viral?

GenX social media peeps we dig

• Kevin Bacon Tik Tok
• Sesame Street GenXer on TikTok
• Kelly Manno on Instagram
• The Holderness Family
• GenX guy dancing in supermarket
• TueNight
• Corbette on TikTok
• Girls of a Certain Age on SubStack
• SmartLess
• GenX_Reference Desk
• You Wish You Were GenX

Even more ironic - our social media

• GenX Stories on IG
• GenX Stories on Facebook
• Eve’s IG
• Eve’s TikTok
• Lori’s IG
• Lori’s Twitter

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