S02E04 – Inside the Academic’s Studio, Discussing Texting, Sexting, and Social Media in Graduate School and Early Career.

Summary: In this episode, the co-hosts wrap up their discussion on dating and reflect on the previous episodes and then shift to dating and social media while in academia. They discuss causal relationships, using online dating apps, and living a public life through social media and the implications of oversharing. We discuss how social media can be both good and bad in terms of sharing one’s life keeping friends and family posted on life events such as dating. Where problems emerge is when people go through bad breakups or the public sharing of personal information. For example, if dating, you may be a private person but a current or former partner may openly share details of your romantic and social life. While they may mean no ill will in sharing, it still can have detrimental professional consequences. The co-hosts discuss how private text messages could find themselves in the public domain including images. Therefore, the co-hosts suggest keeping the intimate moments to face to face exchanges and avoiding exchanging pictures or suggestive text or private messages on social media and texting. Even after a bad breakup from years ago, such content could become available to others who wish to hurt you. Therefore, as tempting as it may seem, the cohosts suggest avoiding sharing public information even over text.