In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is cancel culture. Cancel culture is an odd phenomenon spawned by the social media era. Some argue that it poses a threat to freedom of speech. I didn’t know enough to write an opinion post on it, so …
There’s been a lot of talk over the last while about freedom of speech, with some people feeling that their freedom of speech, or freedom of speech in general, is being limited. I thought I’d chime in on the matter, although I’m perhaps a bit late to the party. Freedom of speech is considered a …
In this series, I dig a little deeper into the meaning of psychology-related terms. This week’s term is online trolling. Of course, we all know what trolling is, and most of us have experienced it. But what underlies it from a psychological perspective? A paper by Coles and West described trolling as “a specific type …
Let’s say you’re scrolling through your Twitter feed. You see a tweet that makes it seem like that person intends to imminently act on suicidal thoughts. What do you do? Unfortunately, there isn’t really a good answer. I’ve been on the reporting side on one occasion. Someone had posted on their blog, which was shared …
Suicidal Posts on Social Media: What Should Platforms Do? Read More »
A blogger I knew died by suicide yesterday. She scheduled a blog post and a Twitter share of the post to go live after the fact. One of the things mentioned in her post was that her plan was to be struck by a train. Today I was looking at the Twitter comments in response …
There are some good things about social media, but it also provides an opportunity for ignorance to get much greater exposure than it deserves. Some people would likely have a platform to reach large numbers of people even if it weren’t for social media. But the average science-naïve person who thinks that snow in one …
Should You Challenge Ignorance & Stigma on Social Media? Read More »
I was reading an article on Medium recently entitled Please Don’t Email Me About Suicide. The author was saying that when she has written before about suicide, she got emails from readers who were suicidal. I agreed with some, but not all, of what she said, so I thought I would unpack it a bit. …
What if a Stranger Online Tells You They’re Suicidal? Read More »
In this emerging blogger post, Kimberley Mulley from Choose Transformation writes about managing the threat comparison poses to well-being. I truly believe that comparison presents as much of a threat to health and well-being, as any health condition. In the animal kingdom, often the biggest, strongest, most colourful male has the best chances of reproducing …
