Can Social Media Make Us Feel Less Connected? Real Talk on Friendship & Tech

Can social media actually make us feel less connected? 

In this episode of Slightly Unsupervised | Best Friends Podcast | Real Talk on Female Friendship, Jennifer and Jackie tackle one of the biggest challenges facing friendships today: how social media is changing the way women connect. 

From comparison culture and filtered perfection to texting instead of talking, they explore why likes, comments, and emojis can never replace real conversations, coffee dates, and the friends who truly show up when life gets hard. 

Along the way, they share hilarious personal stories—including Jennifer's son reporting his internet provider after losing internet for a few hours, Jackie's unforgettable "LOL" misunderstanding, passive-aggressive Facebook posts, holiday decorating competitions, and why sometimes the best thing you can do is simply pick up the phone instead of sending another emoji. 

If you've ever wondered how to protect lifelong friendships in a digital world, this episode is for you. 

In this episode, we discuss: 

💜 Female friendship in the age of social media
 💜 Why comparison steals connection
 💜 Bestie energy vs. online validation
 💜 How chosen family stays connected across distance
 💜 Friendship support beyond likes and comments
 💜 Why authentic conversations matter more than perfect posts
 💜 Raising the next generation to value real friendships 

Whether you've known your best friend for forty years or you're still searching for your platonic soulmate, this conversation is a reminder that the strongest friendships aren't measured by followers—they're measured by who shows up. 

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Because the best love stories don't always come with a ring. 

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Transcript

Jennifer 0:00

Hey there, I'm Jennifer. And I'm Jackie. And welcome to Slightly Unsupervised. We're best friends, business partners, and the chaos behind bestimonia ceremony we created to celebrate the kind of soulmates who don't come with a marriage license.

Jackie 0:11

This podcast is all about that friendship energy, the deep stuff, the messy stuff, and the laugh to you snort stuff.

Jennifer 0:17

So whether you're driving, folding laundry, hiding in your car for some peace and quiet.

Jackie 0:20

You're in good company. Let's get slightly unsupervised. All right, today, social media versus real friendship. Don't let likes replace love. Social media has made it easier than ever to stay connected and somehow easier than ever to feel disconnected.

Jennifer 0:39

Yeah. Social media is a, I think it's a blessing and a curse in some ways. It's a blessing because we could see each other every day. It's a blessing in a lot of ways because we can not only see each other, but we can see a lot of people that we were once friends with, closer to, whatever, in a different time that we can kind of keep track of them as well. It's all on one page. We can also post updates to our own lives so that I don't have to call you, I don't call Michelle, I don't call everybody and tell them the same thing. It's just an ongoing updating process.

Jackie 1:09

So that's or like you and I right now doing our podcasts and we see each other and get to talk to each other every week.

Jennifer 1:14

Right. Right.

Jackie 1:15

I mean, it feels like we're we see each other all the time.

Jennifer 1:18

Right. Like like a normal day, only we're on a computer screen and we could see each other. So it's important. I mean, I think that's an important part of our week that we do stay connected in that and that we work on this stuff together and behind the scenes with it. So that's always really nice. But this post the social media when we were kids was not how this was done. And so it's changed a little bit. And it's interesting how we kind of had life without it. So I think it's easier for our generation to take it for what it is, meaning it's a nice platform and we can get on there and see things and stay connected in a way. But if it had been in our world when we were children, and I think that the children today have this problem, is that it's also a lot of competition and need for some sort of validation on a lot of levels. And you know, you filters. I mean, just talk about filters in women. I I Jack, you can say this too, is like we see women all the time putting filters on stuff, and we're like, you don't look like that. Like, that's silly. You let AI get a hold of you, and you don't look anything like that. And like I can imagine what the girls today feel because they have they know how to do that stuff. They're beautiful already. And so then they put filters on themselves, and it's like, how do you compete with that? We're talking, it's like girls, it's like us growing up, right? We had to compete with girls in magazines, right? I remember the magazine 17 always coming and it was like opening it up, and it's like that was our reference point. And they had makeup on and they had retouched on their photos or whatever. And there was some of that going on when we were children, but now, good lord, can you imagine being a kid trying to compare yourself to that?

Jackie 3:03

Nope. Yeah, and the fact I I feel like we could turn it off, like when we just went through COVID, but actually, people got more on it during COVID. People our age on it more just try to entertain themselves. And some people got really popular. We could turn everything off and be okay because we didn't have that when we were younger. I feel like the kids this age now, they've always had it. I don't think they know what to do if all of a sudden they don't have it. Anxiety, like what do I do? They'd have no clue.

Jennifer 3:34

They don't.

Jackie 3:34

I mean, I I feel like my kids might have been better off because they were brought up, they were kind of in between it. They started to get it, and we didn't let them have phones till later. We didn't let them really get on that. And we were a family about playing games and being together and doing stuff.

SPEAKER_04 3:51

Yeah.

Jackie 3:52

But my kids with their kids now, that's not gonna be they're that's not gonna fly. They're gonna have a hard time.

SPEAKER_04 4:00

Yeah.

Jackie 4:01

If if all of a sudden everything goes down and you don't have anything and the kids can't play with their I call them the wrong names. My daughter had to correct me the other day. I think it's called Switch. Oh. Do I have the right name? I don't know. I think I called it the wrong name the other day.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

But anyways. Oh, is it a new platform?

Jackie 4:20

It's no, it's that's actually just a game.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Oh, okay.

Jackie 4:23

But if the kids can't talk, you know, on that, because they talk on that to each other, you know what I mean? When they play the games, I don't know what they'll do.

Jennifer 4:32

So I have a funny story. My son is 38. I mean, he's a little older, but he's also a you know, works in the Silicon Valley, he's a tech nerd. So, anyways, I was talking to him this weekend and he was telling me because I got him the um satellite dish for um Elon Musk, you know that he's got some like special internet. Son goes camping, and everybody has to drive down to Starbucks all the time to get the internet to figure out what's going on in their lives because they just can't possibly relax. They have to know what's going on, so they have to drive somewhere to get reception. So I bought him this thing he can take with him. I forget what it's called, Starlink. And he can take it camping with him, and it's a a satellite dish basically. So, anyways, he's telling me that he switched his actual internet to the Starlink because he's he was so inconvenienced on multiple times when his internet went down. And for three or four hours, he had nothing to do. He reported the old internet company to the SEC. Like he's getting all these emails and all this mail from everybody because he's so bored that you know that's he's plotting his revenge to the internet company because they took down his life and he did not. What do you do with yourself for three to four hours? Like, you should have this internet up. This is a vital part of life, and just very, you know, upset about it. And I'm just cracking up because I'm just like, what? Like, go outside and mow your lawn. Like do something productive.

Jackie 6:00

Or call your friend on the phone and talk to them. Or I'm sorry, call your mom.

Jennifer 6:05

Call your mom. Yeah, that's what he should have done. Start with your first part, or just call your mother and talk to her.

Jackie 6:10

I know we're a friendship podcast. So I know I have to say call a friend first, but call your mom.

Jennifer 6:17

Good advice, Jackie. I like that. But yes, just totally like he gets letters, and then it's like he's really upset because the SEC or whoever he's calling, or wherever he's texting, they're sending him Mrs. Taylor, you know, because they're his name is Taylor and they think he's a girl. So it's just like, oh man. That kid doesn't know.

Jackie 6:36

Taylor is a boy name. Taylor's a boy name.

Jennifer 6:38

But he's in the you have you have daughters. Maybe it's a little different, Jackie, and maybe talk about that a little bit. They are social media, they're in the middle of it. I know your oldest daughter is more like the age of my son, so that they have grown up in that and they're girls. And I think there is a very different outcome for girls than there is for the boys on social media, I imagine, because the girls are so much more invested in how they look and how things are and they're you know, how everybody thinks about them. And so do you see a difference about how internet or the social media plays out differently for your daughters versus your sons?

Jackie 7:15

Oh, definitely. I think they do care about what what what other women think, other mothers, that type of thing. Which is a bummer because I I I think my daughter is a wonderful mother. And it they are just so diehard on that stuff now.

unknown 7:31

Yeah.

Jackie 7:32

They the way they think, I mean, I would have never worried about what everybody was thinking back when I was a mom.

SPEAKER_04 7:38

Right.

Jackie 7:38

I knew I was doing a good job.

SPEAKER_04 7:40

Yeah.

Jackie 7:41

And like I said, she's doing a great job. But it's like everybody wants to overdo each other, I think.

Jennifer 7:46

That's competition.

Jackie 7:48

Oh, I gotta do this birthday party because this one did one. And I don't think you have to do that, just being there. But I understand, I mean, I understand that that's it's what it is these days, and it's what they gotta do. But like I said, uh even if I tell her every single day that she's doing a great job and she's a great mom, it's not gonna matter. It's more about what the social media's saying or what you know she's seeing, right? Which is a bummer.

Jennifer 8:15

Yeah, also it's like such validation for such a a false narrative, meaning that you could post anything about your life, and it doesn't mean that the rest of your life is like that, right? So it's like a facade of this greatness that happens and that you're competing with competing with things that are based in reality. And so I can't imagine like on a friendship level too, Jackie. Like, let's just date ourselves back to us being on the same social media all the time and competing for likes and you know, and how you how how many likes did you get on that picture and da-da-da.

Jackie 8:50

I mean, you could see how it could really kind of damper a relationship in the fact that you're not really Well, my husband's funny because he'll look at likes and it's not like he's on a competition. He just thinks it's funny. It's like you got a hundred likes on that. That's pretty good. I don't look at that. Right? Competition. He's a guy. I don't I don't think it's a competition for him. I just think he just is mesmerized by how many there is. How many people are out there? Yeah, like the fact they're saying it.

Jennifer 9:22

Yeah. We live in a world where we didn't have that. We had competition, but it was like in person and not in like, you know, yeah.

Jackie 9:30

I think they don't believe that they're doing it, like that they feel like they have to do this because the other person's doing it. I don't feel like they know that they're actually doing that in their people decorating for the holidays. Uh I've I have friends that like they talk about other friends. Oh my gosh, like we have to decorate more because our neighbors really decorate like yours just generic. Just put a few things out. You don't have to go out and get the giant everything and make your house look over overboard just to, you know, be unless you're like having fun with it. Like we used to have fun with a neighbor down the street in when I lived in the mountains. It was my one of my son's best friends, and he still is one of his best friends, and his parents were really good friends of ours. And so we used to do a Christmas competition, and it was always a big joke. We did, it was called the Griswold competition. So the more lights, the better. And it was always like, oh, we're on. But it was a fun competition, you know what I mean? Right. But so it wasn't like a like a competition where you were just like, I have to do this because so and so's doing it.

Jennifer 10:33

It was But that's how it is now, right? It's not just competing with your friends, then your friends, you know, you see Martha Stewart put her stuff out because you can see Martha's page. You don't have to wait for a magazine, so you can be like, Dear Lord, it doesn't look like that.

Jackie 10:47

Yeah, don't go poor. Don't go poor doing this stuff and don't do it if you can't afford it.

Jennifer 10:51

But I think it can affect friendships too, because like you said, we were in a world where we competed maybe on just a very minimal level, the people we lived with around that, you know, we could see there was 10 boys and everybody liked those boys, you know what I mean? Even now it's like the world has just gotten so big that the competition, so it's it really probably takes a deep effect on having making friends because you're not necessarily having a real friendship as well. Like I said, this facade that happens on on Facebook about how everything's great or whatever, and you're like, you know, behind the scenes, there's a whole different thing going on there, so it's kind of hard to even gauge that and really to be there for a friend if you don't really know what's really going on in their head because they keep posting really nice things or things they're doing that look nice. And so it can really take a damper on making friends and keeping friends because the competition level is so so hard. So one of the things that that you know you have to do in a friendship is be around each other. We just talked about that, right, Jack? Like we're not you're I'm in Nashville and you're in California and we are not connected in that way, but we see each other. We're on this little podcast now, and we're looking at each other and we can see each other. So even that is kind of nice, right? But that's not social media, that's just you and I chatting and talking and doing our podcasting together. But there's a connection there that needs to remain remain intact when you have friends. And if you are basing your entire friendship on your social media, I could see how this has really turned friendships upside down, like you know, not being able to really find deep roots with it because it's it's just more like a show.

unknown 12:35

Right.

Jackie 12:35

If you have to always post that everything's perfect and you're trying to make the perfect picture all the time of every little event that you do, I think there's something wrong. Right.

Jennifer 12:44

Because if you have the perfect event, yeah, if you have the perfect event, then you probably forgot to even take a photo, right? Because that's where your mind is. You're like, I'm enjoying this moment. And that's I think we've taken some of that out of the equation with social media. It's like, I need to show everybody how much fun this is or how great this is, or whatever. And it takes away from the, you know, we're looking at places to take photos and not looking at what we're actually experiencing, right? So social media is again, it's a blessing and a curse. And I'm thankful that I did not live through the world of social media, and like you said now, gosh, we would have been off and be okay.

Jackie 13:24

It would have been awful.

Jennifer 13:26

Yeah. I feel bad.

Jackie 13:27

You would have been because I was a photographer, so you know me. All over it. I was a photographer in high school, in junior high school. I was yearbook, newspaper. I did it all. Right. I would have been the worst. You guys would have probably started hating me. You love being in the newspaper, you love being in the yearbook all over the place. But yeah, yeah.

Jennifer 13:50

But we probably wouldn't want you like posting us on Friday night at, you know, at the flat.

Jackie 13:55

Like in all of a sudden, all of our parents would really know what we were doing, even though we said we were staying at each other's houses.

Jennifer 14:01

Right, right. Be like, did you post? You put us up at the flat with all those people, and there's like people smoking in the background with beer. Like, I'm gonna get in trouble. It could have been a whole thing.

Jackie 14:12

So Oh yeah, and I would have been the one doing it, you know it.

Jennifer 14:15

I know. We do have a lot of pictures though, because Jackie was the photographer and she did take a lot of pictures.

Jackie 14:20

So we have a lot more pictures in our childhood than most people do because I had the best uh teacher for photography, and I had her from junior high school all and then she went up to the high school, and I was allowed to print whatever I wanted in the black in the uh dark room.

SPEAKER_04 14:35

Right.

Jackie 14:35

So even the parties, I was I gotta print any any of my stuff because I helped her out with the yearbooks and everything. So yes, I have the best pictures.

Jennifer 14:44

So we have photos, but we didn't have social media, and we could share them with each other, but we couldn't really share them with the world. So it was an interesting thing. But I have them now. I have all those black and whites now. Yeah. Yeah. So anyways, uh don't don't I think then in the friendship world, keep your friends, keep off the internet about having a relationship with somebody because social media is not a really good place to um keep a friendship alive. It requires authenticity, it requires human interaction, it requires deep, deep conversations, it requires a lot of things that we're not you're not gonna get on the internet. The internet's surface level, very surface level, very minimal. You can present yourself any way we any way you want, but you know, in real life. So keeping that in in tune with your friendships is like, you know, just be mindful of that, that um things you can help to do, reach out privately instead of just liking posts. I know Jackie, sometimes if you post something or I know you well enough, I'm like, I gotta call her, make sure she's all right. You can tell the tone of that. I'm sure that happens with you too. It's like, are you all right? Is everything okay? Because sometimes the tone gets off. So if you are gonna use social media, pay attention to what they're posting. Um pick up the phone instead of sending another emoji. Emojis are nice and they're easy, and I I will be the first one to admit when somebody says something I don't know what to say or I don't have time, I send a heart because I don't have time to really respond.

Jackie 16:15

You never do that if I put something out though.

Jennifer 16:17

I do, I do.

Jackie 16:19

I work stuff. Like if I did something when I was working at the dentist's office. Yeah, remember.

SPEAKER_04 16:25

I love it.

Jackie 16:26

You were like, what's up? Who do I have to kill? Because I'm gonna have to fly out. You're like, do I have to fly out? Whose ass are we kicking to do? I've got this under control. I know. That's what I'm saying. She's on my social media.

Jennifer 16:42

Docky does put cryptic. We've talked about it. She's uh passive aggressive. So when she puts a passive aggressive post out, I've got to call. Be like, what? What happened? Who's asking me kicking to do?

Jackie 16:51

Oh, people look go on my Facebook to see if I'm mad at them. Is it not true? Yeah, it's true.

Jennifer 16:56

Because they're gonna know. You're gonna be mad at them. So, anyways, pick up the phone instead of sending an emoji. Don't compare your life to uh curated content. Again, I just said that it's it's it's hyped up, it's all you know, roses and petals, and it's really that's not really a true, it's not really rooted in reality. Um, celebrate your friends' successes without comparing, and you don't need to put everything on the internet, guys. Like, have some moments where it's just the two of you hanging out and you guys are eating popcorn and watching movies and look like holy hell that you're having the greatest time. It's not, we don't need to all see that. I think we're getting too far into let's post. We got to post something. We don't need to post anything. Like, it's not everybody's business. And honestly, people don't care. Like they may scroll by and see big, oh, that's nice, but ultimately they don't really care. Do you get that feeling, Jackie? Like, you're really careful about it.

Jackie 17:49

No, everybody cares about what we're doing, Jen. Stop. I'm a photographer. I feel everybody cares and we need to post everything.

Jennifer 17:58

They don't care. They're just like, oh, that's nice, and move on.

Jackie 18:01

Actually, I did pretty good in this this last trip. Think about it. I didn't not really do as much.

Jennifer 18:06

Yeah. But think you were on a trip. Like every time somebody goes on a trip, we're gonna see the trip photos. And everybody likes to see trip photos because it's like, do I want to go there? Is that somewhere I want to be? Let me see your photos. So that part of it is okay, I think. That's like sharing. If you put a shakuri board together and it's gorgeous, then show us a picture of it. If you're just having some cheese and crackers, don't be stabbing a picture of it.

unknown 18:26

We don't care.

SPEAKER_02 18:28

Especially if it's just, you know, you got it where you just peel the thing back and it's cheese. What kind of thing?

Jennifer 18:35

Where you just peel it off and lay it down. You're like, here's the cheese tray. I got that at Sam's Club. Everybody trying to dig it. I'm okay with that. Like, it's not necessary. The first thing you need to remember is that most people don't care what you're doing. They're comparing. Like, do I have, does my chicary board look like that? Is it better than yours? Like, come on, get off yourselves, people.

Jackie 18:55

Must say though, come on, I have to do this though. Okay. A lot of stuff I put on is because I my family is far away.

Jennifer 19:04

Yeah, of course. So that's what I'm saying.

Jackie 19:06

I put stuff on because my family feels, and that's what they say, they feel like they're here with me. I don't put a lot of extra. I try to, but I do try to put milestones. I try to put things on that my family feels like they're knowing at least what's going on with me. Because we don't always talk a lot. We don't always text a lot. But by putting stuff on Facebook, we then we feel like we all kind of know what's going on with each other.

Jennifer 19:34

And that's what it's good for, right? It's good for that. It's not like you and Rick are gonna get get your meal done tonight and you two are gonna sit at the table and eat and then be like, hey, selfie time, like let's show everybody what like those are the parts where it gets excessive, right? Like when you two are, you know, going across the country and you're sitting in I did my laundry, it's all done.

Jackie 19:54

It's all folded perfectly.

unknown 19:56

Click.

Jennifer 19:57

Oh, that's so exciting, you know.

Jackie 19:59

Say when I first got on Facebook, I did do that.

Jennifer 20:02

I know. Again, she used to think LOL meant lots of love. You can't imagine the inappropriateness that she had been posting. My grandmother died. LOL. Like, oh no, Jackie, that doesn't sound good. That doesn't mean lots of love. That means laugh out loud.

Jackie 20:16

You can't be saying that's all I'm still on Facebook, people. I just got on Instagram, kind of. Yes.

Jennifer 20:22

All right, assume positive intent before hurting, before feeling hurt by social media. I think you can get yourself really sideways, somebody getting mad at somebody, and they kind of post something again. So being passive aggressive, like Jackie is, she can post something. And if somebody thinks that it's about them, they can get their feelings really hurt when they're like, I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the bitch at the grocery store that, you know, ran over my foot with her damn cart. And so, you know, again, people read things into it. So be careful with that. You know, create more memories than your post. Please, y'all. Please go back to a life where we didn't post everything. I do think it's good because you can go back and be like, where was I a year ago? What was I doing? You know, those are good for memories. It's like a memories, a memory thing. That's always nice. And I appreciate that part of it. So be present when you guys were together. You know, don't be posting. Jackie came to Nashville. We took a few photos. She was just showing me a book that she just made of her trip, and there's a cute photo of us in there, but they're not necessary to share with everybody. Those are photos that Jackie and I have, and they're cute, and we know the intent behind them, and you know, they're fun to look at. It's I don't know if everybody on the planet needed to see them, but you and I saw them, and that's that's where the meaning is.

Jackie 21:36

They're on Facebook too, if anybody wants to look. Oh, geez.

Jennifer 21:40

Get on Jackie's Facebook and you're gonna see that.

Jackie 21:43

167 pictures.

Jennifer 21:46

She's a photographer, you all. I mean, she's a hard person to have a social media conversation with because she's And that's cutting out probably 200 pictures. All right, let's go to best of rapid rapid questions, Jackie.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

Who takes longer to text back?

Jennifer 22:00

I'm just busier sometimes.

Jackie 22:02

So ever misread something online, yes always.

Jennifer 22:06

Somebody that said something and you go back and read it, you're like, I didn't say that. Does that happen to you?

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Like you like, get all fired up and then you go back and read it, you're like, that's it. Like, that's my bad. Sorry about that. Do likes matter, Jackie?

Jackie 22:23

No. No. I really don't care about that part. It's funny that my husband, because I would just crack up when he said that the last time he's like, Do you realize? And I was like, I really don't look at that part. Like, okay, whatever.

Jennifer 22:38

Alright, would you rather have lunch or text all week?

Jackie 22:41

I like both. It just matters the situation or who I'm with. Like, of course, I can't have lunch with you, so I'll text with you. Like our girlfriends, I can't have lunch. Like Michelle, once in a while, I could have lunch with her because she's close to you.

Jennifer 22:52

Yeah, but if you could choose, like, let's just say the five of us are in the same town together, would you rather do it?

Jackie 22:56

Of course, I'd rather do lunch.

Jennifer 22:58

Lunch, yeah. I think there's a more of a connection when you're fighting somebody and you're really because texting eat all has that effect too, right? You can have a texting conversation with somebody, and by the end of it, you guys are mad at each other, and it's because of the tone of the text, how they read it or they interpret it. So it can get kind of dicey there. So what's your biggest social media pet peeve, Jack?

Jackie 23:18

Advice. Unsolicited. I don't like it when someone gives you advice when they just look at your thing and it was like, Why did you put that? Like I wasn't asking for advice on anything. Right? That's just it's it's usually the older, it's usually parents.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

We're used to it.

Jennifer 23:36

We're used to giving the advice, so yeah, I get it. It's not that I needed it, but whatever. Oh, there you go. What's the one thing you'd never judge another woman for? Their life. How it went.

Jackie 23:48

Yeah. I just don't judge women.

Jennifer 23:51

How their childhood went is such a awful way to judge a woman. I just had a conversation with somebody I and they were telling me something I didn't know anything about, and I didn't know anything about it when they were kids, and I was just like, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. And I can imagine that this person didn't really never told anybody because they didn't want anybody to know the conversation, but it's like it happened to you. You did not happen to it. When you're a child, you don't have any control over anything. So these things happen to you. So judging somebody from their childhood or something like that is so unfair when Oh yeah, that's totally unfair. When you don't have any control over it.

Jackie 24:25

So I don't think women should judge each other at all.

Jennifer 24:28

Yeah, we need to get out of it. It's bad.

Jackie 24:30

Yep. What's your favorite offline friendship memory? Oh god.

Jennifer 24:35

We have so many. I mean we don't really like I said, and you probably think this too, when we're together, let's just say the five of us get together, it's a lot less posting and a lot more. Did you take take a picture? We're gonna miss a picture. Like, we know we're gonna have to put a post a picture because we have a lot of friends that know all the five of us and we're together and we have a lot of the same friends. And it's like, well, before you leave, let's get a picture because we're actually just enjoying ourselves more than we're worried about. Okay, if social media disappeared tomorrow, how would friendships change? It would not change so much on our generation because we were used to living like that. It would be a very hard, steep change, I think, for the younger generation to figure out how to be interacting. They they don't interact on I said that earlier. Yeah, they don't think they'd have a harder time. He'd be reporting to the SEC and be like, you know, systems are broke. I don't even know what to do with myself. Like, you can't be down three hours. That's just like criminal.

Jackie 25:34

Who do I talk to? Jesus. Wait, I have to call my friend? No, call your mom. Then call your friend.

Jennifer 25:42

I actually got him to go out and go camping because I bought him this Starlink thing that he could go out and check his internet and he stay connected. Because this is the other thing that would happen that's so funny is that they would go and they would bring these games, right? They they don't know how to play the games. Their normal route is to go to YouTube and figure out YouTube channel, figure out how do you play this game, give us the rules, and they and they didn't have that. So then they can't play the game because they can't really read the there's a paper in there, but they don't really read it, so they don't know how to play. They they they have lost out on gaming because they don't have the internet, which is why I bought them the internet, so they could go camping with it, so we can figure out how to play the game.

Jackie 26:18

You're camping. Sit out by the fire, like enjoy it.

Jennifer 26:24

Not our generation. This is a different generation. So anyways. I know. All right, go ahead. I hope every woman listening remembers this. The people who matter most won't remember your perfectly edited photo. They'll remember the coffee dates, the late night phone calls, the tears, the laughter, the moments when you showed up. Social media is a wonderful tool, but it should never become a substitute for will friendship. Because at the end of our lives, nobody counts the number of likes they received. They remember the women who love them long enough to show up in person.

Jackie 26:54

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Jennifer 27:00

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Jackie 27:06

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Song 27:23

We stick together at your die to the moon, and no amount of space could ever come between us two. Reuniting's like we've never been apart, and every single time we're out of iron heart to heart. There's not enough words to describe what you have made a big enough to dance to make. We'll write in a story.