Mental health on social media

Personally, I feel that the best way to create awareness around issues on mental health caused by social media is to promote more stories of people affected by what they have been through and to find the roots of the issue. For example, where most hate comments are coming from, and what content triggers this - examples of influencers who have changed themselves many times due to hate comments. Social media and the internet is inevitable to avoid, and to get users to consume less. As technology develops, consumers and prosumers will increase. Many are aware of the impact hate comments and cyber bullying can do, the main promotion therefore consisting of a kinder society. Enforcing new norms, and promoting what's happening in society to people in a dramatic way, to make them realise, becoming more empathetic. Stricter policies may include restriction modes on key words and comments on social platforms, such as disabling comments on YouTube.

As media producers, we can create meaningful music, music videos, posters, podcasts, websites, etc to promote stories of cyber bullying and stories of vulnerable users. To improve the way we use social media, we could go on it less, for example by setting restricted time's from the settings of said device, and not participate in any online hate, in any form.

I feel that my own social media platform would be similar to many, as the main sites today all also have many things in common. It would consist of interactivity, and a possible place for individuals to express their creativity in any form, that being something I am passionate about. A space for people to relate in terms of being photographically, musically, etc talented, with the ability to share events, for example a category set specifically for everything recorded at an event such as a concert on a specific day, then finding more people who have posted there. Uploading would require verification stages, and would not be too easy to avoid bots and those coming on to hate.
I would aim to tackle body image issues if desired within social media overall. The issue causing insecurities and affecting many from triggering teen years in real life,it may be even worse on social media.

Having a patient, understandable persona is important to tackle mental health issues, and to ensure my own media production projects do not poke any negative topics.