Social Media & Mental Health

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How does social media affect your mental health? What is happening, how does it affect you and what are some things you can do to combat common issues. For Ryerson University's Mental Well Being Week 2014.

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Social Media

&

Mental HealthMental Well Being Week

#RUwell2014

@BaileyParnell

@TesniEllis

Questions for you...

What are you on?

Who are we?

@TesniEllis @BaileyParnell

How much time really?

Does it consume your life?

What’s Happening

Fear of Missing Out

(F.O.M.O.)

Highlight

Reel

Harassment Social Currency

Fear Of Missing OutSocial anxiety: fear that you are missing a potential

connection, event, or opportunity

Highlight Reel“We struggle with insecurity because we compare our

behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

– Steven Furtick

HarassmentBullying and online harassment on:

➔ Text

➔ Reddit

➔ Twitter, Facebook

➔ Spreading photos

➔ Trolling

➔ Mass campaigns of harassment

Having serious effects on:

➔ Ones’ self confidence

➔ Personal safety

➔ Mental state

Bullying and online

harassment on:

➔ Cyber stalking

➔ Degradation/

humiliation

➔ Harassing

➔ Impersonating

➔ Flaming

➔ Text messaging

➔ Password theft

➔ Website creation

➔ Use of photos

➔ PC attacks

➔ Proxy attacks

Social Currency“Social currency is a common term that can be understood as

the entirety of actual and potential resources which arise from

the presence in social networks and communities, may they

be digital or offline.”

Ask Yourself...1. Did it happen that you started to mix daily life etiquette and rules with the

ones you use on social media?

2. Have you ever deleted a post, because it didn't get as much likes as the

other ones?

3. Do you plan your day according to how much battery you have on your

phone?

4. Do your friends and family get concerned when you don't post anything for

2 days?

5. Do you have a problem sleeping because you have to do a midnight check

up on the 25 apps that you might get an update from?

6. Do you feel lost and incomplete if your S4 Samsung or Iphone is not

around?

7. You check your Facebook or twitter around 20 times a day, and you

possible checked it once in this presentation.

8. When you arrive early to something or find yourself alone in public, is your

first instinct to pull out your phone?

Effects

Sleep patterns Depression and

Anxiety

Addiction Productivity

Sleep Patterns➔ Interrupting REM

➔ Meaning of interruptions

AddictionWe are experiencing impairments

similar in substance dependencies

VIDEO

Anxiety & Depression

When all this “connection” doesn’t actually make us

feel good

Productivity“Mashable reports that a social

media interruption occurs every

10.5 minutes on average, and

people waste 41% of that time

on Facebook.”

Tips

1

2

3

Stop using your phone/computer after a certain hour

Leave your phone somewhere else

Don’t use your phone as an alarm clock

4

Move social apps to second screen5

Replace the habit with something else (productive)

Questions?

Tweet Us!... in moderation

@TesniEllis @BaileyParnell

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