Fighting the Negative Impact of Social Media!
In my last post I detailed the scams and lies of social media famous wellness influencers. What I only touched on were the dangerous ideologies that many groups within the wellness industry promote and spread through social media communities. How […]
Wellness influencing is a classic path for an influencer to go down. Instagram has been flooded with wellness content pretty much since its inception. If you’re a woman on Tiktok it’s a miracle if you haven’t been shown what yoga […]
Medical misinformation is big business on social media. From influencers flogging snake oil to anti-vax propaganda, we’re often facing health advice that’s complete nonsense. But so many people believe it. We’re all living longer, but we’re not living healthier. People […]
Social media is flooded with AI-generated content. Text and images created by AI are spreading like wildfire, and it’s becoming harder and harder to spot it. Companies are adopting these technologies en masse as they are cheap and readily available. […]
Last week senate hearings were held in the US. The heads of Meta, Discord, Snap, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok were asked by lawmakers how the platforms intended to safeguard children online. Behind them sat the families of children who […]
I’ve written before about true crime mania on social media. What we have currently unfolding is a case study showing the potentially devastating effects of social media on someone who was both victim and perpetrator in a very famous true […]
Over the last couple of months there has been two major TikTok trends regarding Gen Alpha’s (2010-2025) behaviour, specifically pre-teens. The first is teachers describing the utterly horrific circumstances they are finding themselves in when trying to teach these children. […]
As a child I remember taking Christmas list writing incredibly seriously. Argos catalogues would be poured over and circled, and my parents would herd my sister and I through Toys “R” Us to point out exactly what we wanted from […]
As a British person, to me Black Friday was just an American phenomenon. Every year video clips of hundreds of people trampling each other to buy cheap junk the day after Thanksgiving would shock and amuse us. “Oh those strange […]
Over the past few years we’ve been seeing world governments attempt to tackle an issue they’ve long ignored: social media and its harms. At the beginning of this year I wrote about the United Kingdom’s new Online Safety Bill and […]