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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
➔ 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
