All my happy friends
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Woman1: Yeah, they were smashed. Dave stole this hat from a hen party, nearly got into a fight. Yeah, that was a washout. Never mind.
Woman2: This shot shows how much I’m enjoying being a mother. I’m really treasuring every little moment. And here we all are ... all together … a family.
Man1: It’s just a typical Tuesday meal for us. It shows how healthy and balanced my life is. Made it myself.
Woman3: This photo clearly shows how advanced Millie is. I mean, writing up to five, at her age, is incredible.
Woman4: I mean, look at that beach! That’s what you call white sand, isn't it?
[singing] Three, two, one … Happy New Year!
Woman5: What a New Year’s! If next year is half as good as this one has been, then ...
Woman1: I just don’t know why I’m feeling like this.
[baby crying]
Woman1: This is the life, nothing better than relaxing with a takeaway over New Year’s. Oh, what a night! Another typical evening for me, clearly enjoying myself but then that’s the sort of fun, carefree life I lead.
[baby crying]
[singing] People tell me how I’m a-losing my mind but I tell people you just in my car. Oh, time moves faster than me, can’t you see all this job you been working I’ve been a-running free.
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Guess it affected everyone but I'm more worried about the younger generation - since I belong to those who were born in 1980's. Folks nowadays are very competitive to each other let alone teens have complex issues but social media is magnifying the issue. The reward system in the brain shifted from achievement and accomplishments to likes and reactions on your 'filtered manipulated' photos and your copied sophisticated line of thought so everyone can think you're an extraordinary intellectual personality. I was so confused when first my people started using Instgram. Like when I see their posts and look at them in real life I'd tell myself, this cannot be real. A completely different personality. Who are we trying to impress?. It remains a puzzle for me
Social media already affected me. Nowadays I don´t use social media that much. When we see happy moments of people we use to believe that it´s the only way that they are, happy forever. We use to compare this moments, specially if we are sad or something like this. But photos are only moments.
I believe that trying to use less social media could help with this. Having more face-to-face conversations with people, spending more time with friends, talking about everything. People will see that real life is about happiness and sadness too, and it´s alright. We are human beings.
Do someone know what a "takeaway" mean on the transcript context?
Hi Maria Helen,
It means food bought from a restaurant to take and eat at home. Another name for it is "takeout".
Jonathan
LearnEnglish team
Sometimes when I post a photo and I don't get many likes, it tends to affect my self-esteem because I usually compare myself to other people. I think we need to realize that we are all worth the same, no matter how many likes you get or how happy or sad other people look in posts.
Yeah! That's it!