Device Addiction
Do you find yourself checking your phone every five minutes? Checking before you fall asleep at night? Cuddling your phone as you fall asleep? Here are some tips to get away from device addiction:...
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A Few Tips and Tricks to Using Social Media with Depression and Anxiety
Symptoms of depression and/or anxiety can be made worse by using social media. In recent blog posts, we have talked about some of the ways social media can bring out negative emotions in...
How to Deal with Cyber Bullies
Bullying and harassment are unacceptable whether it takes place in person or online. First and foremost when it comes to bullying, it’s important to remember that it is not your fault. Bullying is not just...
Social Media Can Induce Feelings of Anxiety
Social media can produce high levels of stress and anxiety. Sharing and posting aspects of your life with others is the purpose of social media but it can lead to negative outcomes. These negative outcomes can...
Do We Share Too Much On Social Media?
Social Media is all about communicating and sharing your experiences with friends and followers. The question is at what point does it become too much and we begin to overshare? How and what we...
Instagram’s New Mental Health Feature
Instagram is a picture-sharing social media site created to allow you to share your life through pictures and videos with the world. But the new norm of constant sharing can create a sense of...
Being Discerning with your Facebook Friends
We recently found this article on WikiHow about how to cultivate a really supportive friends list on your social media accounts – Facebook is specifically mentioned, but this could be used for any Social...
Pan-sexuality as an Idenitity
Miley Cyrus made news and social media headlines awhile back by announcing that she identifies as pansexual. If you haven’t already looked it up, pansexual is described as “a sexual identity along with bisexual,...
Angry on Social Media
How many times have you noticed someone “vaguebooking” on Facebook? More likely to be angry than happy. Is it useful? Probably not. Many times when people post vague messages they are looking for attention,...
Social Media and Self-Esteem
The urge to maintain an online presence can be exhausting. Sure, social media isn’t always negative, but there are important things to keep in mind about using social media that can prevent it from being...
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