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Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

The challenge (for me at least) is to get the most out of it without it becoming stressy or negative, Me too @SANEwriter, @Phoenix_Rising 

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

+ @Former-Member @Phoenix_Rising

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

@Former-Member Totally. Especially for me with news & social media sites, which is where I spend a lot of my time. I'm going to focus on those a lot tonight.

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

Hi all 🙂

I'm here tonight because I spend a lot of time online. Like @Phoenix_Rising, I think the online world can be incredibly helpful but also difficult in many ways and maybe not helpful at times. I'm hoping to learn some ways I can make the most of my time online 🙂

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

@SANEwriter - same things as yourself and @Phoenix_Rising. But I have a conflict in wanting to share my story and experiences as well as learn and grow with my mental health issues, but I'm wary of how and what I share. So while I like and occasionally share relevant posts, I stay within certain closed groups to protect myself from shame, stigma and humiliation

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

@CheerBear @Phoenix_Rising It's so tricky, isn't it? I don't want to not be online, so I do a lot of stuff to make it and me as safe as possible.

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

Such a wise thing to do, @Sans911. In fact, that sort of leads into the first topic I wanted to bring up -- gimme a second, I'll post it. Smiley Happy

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

I am dropping by to see peoples thoughts, I use very little social media outside of forums, fb is only for university notifications, news feeds and intrest groups like fishing & photography to learn new skills and some professional networking platforms. I deleted all my social media accounts a couple of years ago and started again because it was getting me down for diffrent reasons. One being my wifes fb posts, (bit hard to block or defriend ones wife lol) 

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

Here's the first topic I wanted to talk about:

Sharing & disclosure

A friend of mine once tweeted: ‘I reserve the right to talk completely openly about my mental health here, then be a cagey a**hole about it because it’s private.’

That perfectly sums up the tension I feel about talking about my mental health online. I want to talk fearlessly, but I also want my privacy. What do you say & not say about yourself online? How do you decide?

Re: Topic Tuesday//Designing your online world//Tues. 16 Jan. 7pm - 9pm AEDT

I do worry about my darlings social media use and its effect on her, there is a definite correlation between mood stability and data use 😞

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