Why you may be triggered by social media

(How have social media metrics affected your sense of self? How have they influenced your understanding of value?)

Airing Dirty Laundry Online: Breakups and Self Care in the Age of Social Media

Social Media and Your Sense of Self: Why You Shouldn’t Get Lost in the Numbers

Among the many associations and connotations that come along with the term ‘social media’, a word that instantly comes to mind would be gratifying. Now, this gratification can come from many fine…

Likes, Impressions and the Following to Followers Ratio

Social Media metrics greatly affects its users, to the point that these metrics are controlling what we post and why we post. Social media gives users the chance to pick and choose what they want to post- drawing out a life which we…

I AM ONLY COOL ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Before dropping a “fire” Instagram post, I usually send it to about three of my friends asking for their…

Hollywood’s Most Beloved Sellout — Snoop Dogg

Social media has become one of, if not the most, lucrative marketing tools…

Self Control on the Internet

How do you practice self-care online? What do you recommend to others?

Practicing self-care is an important part of the online world, especially when there are individuals on the internet that just look for people to beat down with words. Self-care…

We are the Guinea Pig Generation

It is both fortunate and unfortunate that we are the first generation to have gone through our academic careers with such a big online presence, more importantly, the use of social media platforms. The use of social media in University gives us easier access to the University’s resources. I…

Social media in the offline world: a mental illness epidemic

Social Media, Stress, and Mental Health

I think that some of the biggest mental health challenges facing university students today are: stress, anxiety and depression, with the biggest one being stress. University students have to juggle many different aspects of life. Many students are…

Should Actors Be Paid to Promote Their Movies on Social Media?

Social media has a significant impact on movie marketing and advertising/publicity campaigns. When utilized well, it can really add to a movie’s overall marketing strategy and success. Likes, shares and engagement on…

Social Media and Cyber Bullying

The world we live in now is more connected than it has ever been before. Facebook, Instagram, Skype are just some platforms that help us all stay connected with one another. By simply taking a picture on our smart phones, we can post a thought or share something funny with…

The Social Media Playground

In seventh grade, there was a mix-up in the lunch monitor schedule — the teacher who was supposed to supervise our classroom was sick and a supply teacher was supposed to monitor us instead. However, the supply teacher had not been to the school before and had spent the first…

Practicing Self-Care with Social Media

Recently, I’ve been noticing just how mentally exhausting social media has been making me feel, and that’s mainly because for me, and for the majority of every other millennial, I have a really hard time disconnecting myself (although I’m now actively…

Whatever, as long as it pays my bills

Selling out yet remaining authentic: does it still matter?

Vanity metrics vs. real engagement

When it comes to building and maintaining a brand in the digital age, maintaining your presence on social media is everything. For many businesses and public figures, it is important to build your brand on social media through an active online profile, a large…

How Social Media is Robbing Us and What We Can Do

Be Right Back

FYI, spoilers ahead for the “Black Mirror” episode, Be Right Back, so don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Martha and her social media absorbed husband, Ash, move into their new home in the countryside. Shortly after, he leaves to go return the moving van only to never return home and…

A Crisis on Campus: How post-secondary education and social media fails the youth

Just imagine yourself at 18 years of age: you’re belongings are jammed up in the backseat and trunk of your Honda Civic, and you got the GPS directing you to (literally) the next phase of…

Oversharing and Over Comparing: Social Media and Mounting Pressure

Can you remember being in elementary school, sitting eagerly in your seat as your teacher walks through the classroom aisle-by-aisle passing back the classes’ tests? Your anticipation, only matched by your anxiety…

Social Metrics: It Doesn’t Matter. You’re Worth It

Q: How have social media metrics affected your sense of self?

A: It made me more understanding, accepting, and stronger.

HOW TO: Stay Sane Online

It can be difficult in this day and age to separate your online world from your “IRL” world. An example I hear all the time is how ‘back in the day’ a kid could go home from school and not have to worry about their bullies until the next day, but now the bullying follows them home.

Social Media Odyssey

Is social media affecting our sense of self? Deviating our value?

Weeks 8 + 9: Social Media, Mental Health, and Me

I’m going to warn you now: this is going to get very long and very personal. There will be discussion of depression, anxiety, and all of the things that come with it (or at least some of them — I don’t experience every symptom and side effect…

Corners, Privacy and Being Offline.

For a while now, especially with the whole PC culture coming in strong, I try to constantly…

Tips for Self-Care in a Virtual World

Within the digital space that is social media, a plethora of content and stories coming from millions of people worldwide can be intimidating and detrimental to our mental health. Smiles flood our timelines, wealth is flaunted for all to see, and there is a global…

“I’m just stressed, it’s no big deal.”

Okay, I’m gonna be real with you all for a second. I’ve tried to write this post probably 5…

Self Care in the Age of Social Media

Self care towards online habits in 5 easy steps

Social Media and Anxiety

Anxiety is the biggest mental health challenge among university students today. Anxiety is general term for several…

Practicing Social Self-Care 101

Social media is an amazing and terrifying thing. For many of us, it is so deeply integrated into our lives that we cannot live without it. We experience symptoms of withdrawal without access to our favourite social platforms. Social media platforms are places where we put…

Congratulations, Sellout

Long has the controversy of making money off of social media been a point of tension between internet celebrities…

Social Media: the heralding of self-censorship

Prompt: How have social media metrics affected your sense of self? How have they influenced your understanding of value?

Freedom of speech, freedom of anything — that seems to be the biggest thing we care about in this day…

Keeping an Eye on the Time

I would like you to pretend that you’ve been kidnapped by a group of strangely philosophical terrorists.

How FOMO Affects Me

There are 168 hours in a week and for some reason that doesn’t seem like enough. With two part time jobs, a full course load, and several extra curricular activities, it seems hard to balance everything and still stay in constant contact with my friends. Trying to find the perfect balance of…

Update alert: not everything is perfect

As 2017 progress we continue to live in a world that strives to craft the perfect life on social media. I don’t want to discount any achievements worth feeling proud of but I do want to talk about the idea of FOMO (fear of missing out) and the belief that out…

I don’t care about your likes

Before I dive into my blog, let’s define vanity metrics:

Basically, that means likes, follows, and other “feel good” but not necessarily actionable, statistics (That being said, at times, combined vanity metrics can become actionable, so don’t rule…

Metrics Shmetrics: Self-Value Beyond Social Media

Social media metrics are the ideal tools for strategizing towards a goal. In the context where quantifying all aspects of social media and finding the perfect algorithms are necessary to obtain the largest social capital, these numbers hold the…

A hidden journal: How social media metrics have affected me

When I look in the mirror, I can honestly say that I am not too hard on myself. Sure, I wish I was taller by a few, measly inches (I’m 5'6 — would love be 5'9), but I do love myself. But I am hard on myself — I wish I had found…

Anxiety and Social Media

I believe that one of the most predominant mental illnesses in University students today is Anxiety. 65% of Canadian students have reported to feelings of overwhelming anxiety in the past year (CBC.ca). I believe that much of this anxiety has arisen because of the amounts of stress…

Don’t Forget to Love Your Online Self Too?

Hello!

I used to have a pretty hard time on social media when I was in high school and an ~angsty teen~. Scrolling through Instagram and seeing adorable couples, enviable bodies and seemingly perfect lives does not do good things…

Social Media and University Students

The following graph has come up on my Facebook and Instagram page a number of times. The comments are always about how relatable it is and that is it “so accurate.” The idea that students struggle daily trying to balance their lives have become a joke, one in which we laugh at because…

CAN WE REALLY PREVENT ONLINE-HARASSMENT?

Before I rain down on anyone’s parade… just hear me out! To begin, many students may not…

Building an Online Self-Care Package

The online social world can be harsh. On one hand, it can expose you to a mass of resources and…

Self-Care Online: Tried and True Tips

Self-care online can be tricky. I love the internet, and all the great and wonderful things…

How can parents and/or educational institutions help guard against online harassment of their children/students?

Looking back at the good-ole-days in elementary school, social networking was just starting to get popular and MSN or Club Penguin were the…

Week #9: Dark Side of Social Media

I definitely think there is a positive side to social currency. Social currency refers to us as individuals being the product and sharing what makes us look good. Therefore, we can leverage this and use it to our advantage. If you have an entertaining or sharp…

The Struggle of Anxiety Disrupted by Images of Peace on Social Media

University is undoubtedly a stressful time for everyone, and it’s a nice thought knowing no one is alone in that. What’s not so nice is that not everyone is comfortable showing it. Sure, there are plenty of…

Beauty and the Youtube

Content creators who have a set vision can mass distribute their opinion and engage with potential converts on social…

From ask.fm to Instagram- How I Reclaimed My Mental Health On Social Media

Continuing last week’s conversation on how vanity metrics can positively or negatively influence your mental health, this week He Said, She Said dove further into the topic of how social media can…

You Can’t Stop Online Harassment

How can parents and/or educational institutions help guard against online harassment of their children/students?

You can’t have the Internet without online harassment. Like a packaged deal, as long as you have one the other will follow.

PODCAST VII: Social Media, Online Bullying, and Self Care Online

Please Promote Spiderman, the 50th Remake

For the past year or so I’ve had the opportunity to work as a production assistant for several shows, including American Gods and The Girlfriend Project. I’ve learned how incredibly fast paced and the demanding the industry can be at times, working 12–16…

Too Close To Reality

The collection of Black Mirror episodes that we have watched throughout the semester have truly allowed me to view today’s modern social media platforms in a different light. The episode Fifteen Million Merits has truly resonated with me for a multitude of reasons. If you’ve read my previous…

Follow Me Epidemic

Social media has changed the way I see myself and other people because of the metrics related with it. There are followers…

Let’s Be Friends (On Facebook)

This week, the panelists of He Said, She Said tackled the correlation between Vanity Metrics and Mental Health. More specifically, the personal correlation between our own mental states and our reactions to likes, follows, friend lists, etc.

Malaise of University

The biggest mental health challenge that university students face is the fact that we feel that we are expected to have all our shit together. That somehow, we magically become “successful” the second we graduate. We all have a dream or a vision of what we want, we know that university is…

TWO! PODCASTS! IN! ONE! WEEK!

Hey, folks!!!

This week you get a double dose of HE SAID, SHE SAID, you can think of them as part one and part two! In Part one, we talked about vanity metrics and how likes affect our lives. In Part two, we got a little bit heated discussing online…

Unplugged

With rapidly advancing technology, and our increasing engagement with the online world it is no wonder that certain issues are arising as direct result of our technological usage. As much as these tools give us increasingly more opportunity and advantage, it is easy to get wrapped up in the fleeting…