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Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Is our social media use having a positive or negative impact on our overall wellbeing? How can we balance our perception of instagram posts, facebook statuses and filtered snapchats with realistic expectations of our own lives?

Social Media is not necessarily a negative, or a positive - the benefits of social media of course lie in the way we engage with each platform. Join us on the 19th of Feb featuring our special guest Holly, a youth peer ambassador and online mental health advocate, as we explore the peaks and troughs of social media, including strategies on maintaining healthy mental wellbeing whilst engaging online.

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In response to: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Is your comment for me @TAB

In response to: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

It's becoming increasingly normal to meet people on various social media platforms. If you have ever made friends via FB, Instagram or similar - we're keen for your insight 🙂

So what is your experience of networking on social media? How do we stay safe whilst engaging online?

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

I have actually met a lot of people through social media, in fact I met my last girlfriend on tumblr and my current girlfriend through Instagram. I think people are pretty savvy when it comes to meeting people online thanks to the rise of tinder. Some of the important things that I consider when meeting someone for the first time is to do so in a public place like a café. I tend to try to do so during daylight hours and make sure someone else knows who I’m meeting up with and I’ll check in with them afterwards.

If it is my first time meeting them I won’t tell them where I live or go back to their place unless I am 110% certain I will be safe.

Another thing that I do whenever a new account follows me is that I check it out to see if it seems like a legitimate person. Some of the things I look for are whether or not they have actually posted anything, whether they are following way more than your average user and other things like that. If I’m in doubt I block them, it’s just better for my mental health

In response to: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Yes it can be handy re internet but its not real and no nett Benefits tbh its just lazy job replacement and profiteering re internet let alone social media etc @Former-Member and marketing practices

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

I doubt @BlueBay since I didn’t know you were here. Anyway Im leaving. Things to do. Good Night

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Take care @TAB Appreciate the input for sure.

@BlueBay Thanks for engaging, your points have been interesting and I have related to heaps of them.

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Meeting people online @holly299 it's happened to me a couple of times via instagram but not often. Is it something people consciously do like follow particular insta hashtags or FB pages? Or does it happen inadvertently? I like the safety ideas too.

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

@Former-Member for me it happened from posting similar stuff and then becoming mutual followers. We would then end up talking on direct messaging functions on various apps so we definitely followed each other first - helps that we both have public instagram accounts

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

I need to go @Former-Member @holly299

thsnks for chstting.

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Re: Topic Tuesday // Symptoms of Social Media - Looking after our Mental Health online // Tues 19th Feb, 7pm AEDT

Hi everyone, sorry I'm late joining the conversation, I was out watering the garden, then feeding my cats and getting myself a meal. If you hear crunching, that's me eating celery 😄

I'm in my mid-50s and I use social media a lot, and am really grateful for the connections I've made online.

Apart from getting pulled into the time-eating vortex of FB, twitter, and IG, and the way that can stop me doing other things, the main thing I find bad for my mental health on social media is seeing distressing things about people suffering, animal neglect or abuse, horrible politics (likehuman rights abuses), or environmental disasters -- droughts, floods, bushfires, etc.

I do my best to avoid stories and particularly images of animal abuse, but with other things like politics and environmental issues, I want to know what's happening and share information, particularly if it's not being covered in mainstream media.

So I have to find a balance between sharing important information, and protecting my mental health.

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