So people are even letting their followers
make all their daily decisions for them.
Check this out.
Would you let total strangers control your every move?
You guys on Instagram are going to decide
everything that I pretty much eat.
A new social media trend is buzzing these days,
called Instagram Followers Control my Life.
YouTubers and Instagrammers ask their millions
of followers to decide things like
what they should eat--
Y'all definitely wanted me to have pancakes.
These are some big ol' pancakes.
Wear, daily activities--
61% of you voted curly, 39 straight.
Haircut style, hair color, and makeup choices.
The whole thing takes the choose your own adventure
genre to a whole new level.
So, does this connect fans
with their favorite IG celebrities?
Or is it all-
Guess we're taking Harley to the dog park.
Just TMI?
Rosie, do you think this is going too far?
You know what, I understand the business aspect.
There's a certain business aspect
when you're engaging your followers.
You want to engage your followers,
you want to create that conversation,
and you want them to be part of your life
so a lot of people love that engagement.
I think the problem is when you're not making money
and it controls your entire life
that you're not living a real life,
that every play by play is based off your phone
and that's where you see the depression,
you see a lot of stuff that starts coming in
and then you start seeing that those questions
get out of hand where you're asking your followers,
should I do this practical joke
that starts getting dangerous and more dangerous?
It's not just about hair now,
its going above and beyond those thrills.
I want to tell you all a really quick story.
I will never forget.
I was invited to a friend of mine,
she was celebrating her mother's birthday at Mr.Chow's.
And this girl came in, I never had met her before,
and she came in and she was talking on her phone
and I thought oh, she's just videochatting
with someone or something like that.
She set her phone down and she put it there
and she's like oh, look who's here, look who's there
and Vivica Fox is here and I finally said to her,
I said, what are you doing?
And she was like oh, I'm just talking to my followers
and I was like okay.
So, I was like, oh hey trying to be nice,
hey, how you guys doing?
She stayed on this thing for about half an hour
until I finally said to my friend,
I said, is she here to celebrate your mom's birthday
or what is she doing?
She goes, oh honey, she makes a lot of money doing that.
But at what point is doing that
too much, making money I understand that,
but when does it cross a line
it just becomes downright rude?
I think part of the problem too
is that we now see people documenting
every aspect of their lives,
down to their daily routines.
Brushing their teeth, washing their face,
making coffee in the morning, driving to work.
The other day, I kid you not, I was at the gym
and somebody was running on the treadmill
and they were making a livestream video
of themselves running. Did they wipe out?
Yeah, I was waiting for it. (laughter)
I was like maybe you need to learn a lesson right here.
What's happening?
Are you working out?
What are you doing?
And I think that's the fear,
it takes that voyeurism to a completely new level
and then you're not engaging.
You're not really involved in that social connect--
What's that psychological profile of a person?
I mean, what is their problem that they've gotta do this?
Well I think when it is taken to the extreme
they've lost their sense of self.
And they look at everybody else to rely on for--
That validation.
Bolstering their self esteem, thinking about who they are,
having others tell them who they are.
And I think also, it becomes a shorthand
for actually having real engagement with somebody
because now you have social media,
maybe you don't think you have to go out
and have a real conversation with somebody.
And we know from research that that's just not true.
I agree.
We talked about this the other day.
(laughing)
You go out to a restaurant and you see a family
and everybody's on their cellphone.
Yeah.
Nobody is talking to each other.
You want to go out on a date now,
I guess high school kids they just text
you wanna go steady with me?
You text 'em, what!
Yeah.
You don't do that anymore.
Where's the nervousness of the boy going up to the girl?
We don't do that anymore,
its all gone, and the family environment.
What is the family environment?
Everybody sits in the living room
doing their little texting.
I want to touch you, I want to see you,
I want to see your eyes when I talk to you.
Yeah, I wanna make you laugh, I wanna make you smile.
Yeah.
We just old school up in here, okay?