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Has Social Media Stolen Your Individuality? | Patricia Martin
10 August 2026

Has Social Media Stolen Your Individuality? | Patricia Martin

Behavioral Grooves Podcast

About

Who are you when no one is watching? We welcome author Patricia Martin to discuss how social media, algorithms, and AI are reshaping our sense of self. From persona fog and chronic self-doubt to the future of human agency, we explore what it means to build an authentic identity in an increasingly performative digital world.


Topics

[0:00] Introduction and Speed Round with Patricia Martin


[9:18] From Research to Me-Search


[13:10] Why the Self Has Become a Consumer Product


[19:24] Persona Fog, Self-Doubt & Cascading Crossroads


[24:13] Healthy Personas vs. Fracturing Online Identities


[31:30] The Self as Consumer Commodity


[36:07] Construction Not Subtraction


[43:33] Desert Island Music


[50:32] Grooving Session: To Thine Own Self Be True?


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Music Links

Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools


Eminem - The Real Slim Shady