{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5ee78862f1846357d77ad9fa/606058564b81e639d9b4018b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Marisa Bate","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5ee78862f1846357d77ad9fa/show-cover.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>Journalist Marisa Bate gave up Instagram five years ago after she started to question what she was getting out of it. The experience has been entirely positive, even though she works in the media where many say it's impossible to be without social media. We talk about the navel-gazing and self absorption that Instagram encourages and how, even in a pandemic, those traits just don't seem to have lessened.</p><p><br></p><p>**Please subscribe, rate and review if you enjoy the podcast**</p><p><br></p><p>Find Marisa on Twitter <a href=\"www.twitter.com/marisajbate\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com/marisajbate</a> and through her website <a href=\"https://www.writingaboutwomen.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Writing About Women</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpod\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">It's Complicated is on Instagram</a>&nbsp;https://www.instagram.com/itscomplicatedpod</p><p><br></p><p>For more about Tanya Goodin visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.tanyagoodin.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.tanyagoodin.com</a>&nbsp;and Time To Log Off&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.itstimetologoff.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.itstimetologoff.com</a>&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Get Tanya's books: '<a href=\"https://getbook.at/OFF\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Off: Your Digital Detox for a Better Life</a>' and '<a href=\"https://getbook.at/STOPSTARING\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Stop Staring at Screens</a>'</p><p><br></p><p>Find out about the digital detox and digital wellbeing course from&nbsp;<a href=\"https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-course\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Time To Log Off Academy</a>: https://timetologoff.teachable.com/p/digital-detox-course</p><p><br></p><p>It's Complicated is produced by Time To Log Off</p><p>Twitter:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.twitter.com/timetologoff</a>&nbsp;</p><p>Instagram:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff%C2%A0\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.instagram.com/timetologoff&nbsp;</a></p><p>and Facebook:&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.facebook.com/timetologoffnow</a></p>","author_name":"Tanya Goodin"}