Sometimes when I'm sad I like to communicate with my friends
on social media, and that really makes me feel less lonely.
The thing I love most about social media
is to stay connected with my friends.
Over spring break I broke my phone,
and I didn't have it for a week, and everyone thought I was dead.
It was just so impossible to contact me.
I do get like a little stressed
like when there's this huge thing that's awesome
and I can't be a part of it.
And that's kind of worrying,
that gets, like, worrying sometimes.
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After getting my phone,
in-person interactions,
it's been replaced by text, and call, and FaceTime.
I'm always with my friends,
but when I'm not with them,
I'm always talking to them on social media.
GIRL: It's a lot easier to
just meet up with people wherever you are
as long as you have a way to connect with them.
So whether that be texting, or Snapchatting, or calling them.
It's really easy instead of
having to like communicate through your parents.
I would say it's very normal in today's world
to be hanging out with people that you're close to,
or even not so close to,
and have moments where you're both just silently sitting
on your phones.
I don't really feel pressured by my friends directly
to be on social media.
But sometimes I'll see them get out their phone
and, like, start looking at Instagram or something.
I think when it fills that space,
there's nothing inherently wrong with it,
but I do see now that that seems...
when that's the extent of what you do with a person,
that's when it starts to bother me.
Me and my friends are on this...
our phones a lot at the same time.
I honestly don't really know why we do it while we're together,
but we do.
I get, like, stressed out, like,
"Oh, I'm probably missing this big thing,
and I can't comment on it," or anything like that.
It always looks more fun when you're not there.
Even if they're doing homework, it makes it seem
like they're having a great time doing whatever they're doing.
I generally don't really get that jealous of when I see,
like, photos of my friends together.
That doesn't really bug me.
I definitely do check it,
and sometimes I get sidetracked.
It still sucks to see that three or four of your friends
are out going shopping and you're not there.
People that I know actually worry about how many followers
they have compared to other people,
and, like, if they're not getting as many messages.
And it just causes so much unnecessary drama, I would say.
Followers isn't, like, what you should be worrying about.
It should be worrying about, like, being with your friends
and things that you like to do like basketball, or reading,
or other things.
If you are on your phone all the time,
you will just tend to feel more lonely, low energy.
I sometimes wish that it wasn't a thing
so I could just hang out with my friends and play basketball
or do other things like that.
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