Anyone can be a Social Soldier! Find out more here!~ (OLD THREAD)
Welcome to the official forum thread for the Social Soldiers! Im glad youre here; youre amazing, and Im glad youre part of the community.
Introduction
The Social Soldiers project was created with the intent on eliminating the stigma that comes along with mental illness on social media, guiding those who are depressed/having a hard time/need someone to talk to right here to 7CupsOfTea. As Laura explained in her lovely thread right here, we need to be here for people who may feel as though they have no other place to turn.
What are Social Soldiers?
Social Soldiers are people that use 7Cups-designated social media to guide people in the right direction, hopefully leading them to the site where they can talk to someone who truly cares. They use the handles Twitter, Reddit and/or Tumblr, and check the tags for depression, or self harm, or anything along those lines.
Who can be a Social Soldier?
Anyone! Thats the beauty of this project; literally anyone can get involved with it.
What isnt a Social Soldier?
Sharing your own personal social media with other members/listeners.
Someone that shares their personal social media in this thread.
Just to debunk a question that may be asked, you can totally share your referral link on your personal social media handles, however we do ask that you dont share your personal social media handle here. If you have a big following on Twitter, and youd rather use your personal account to spread the word, thats totally okay, just do not share with other members/listeners your personal account. If you have any questions on this, feel free to PM me.
How to get involved?
Read through our post on the new team, to understand the changes a little more as well as to find the links to apply.
Project Leadership
@ArwaS - Project Leader
@Erato - Twitter Team Leader
@Yendi - Tumblr Team Leader
Find 7 Cups on social media here - Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest
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7 cups is really amazing I'm really enjoying this!
This sounds great!
being able to help (and be helped) by people on this is amazing, because i have the chance to spread out love and affection for many people i encounter!
It's really amzing idea of crowdsourcing the therapy!
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7 Cups have been helping a lot of people who are in need of someone to talk to.
7 Cups is about love and serving our own inner purpose.
I've only been on this site for a week, and it has already helped SO MUCH. Thank you, to everyone who makes this incredible site possible! :-)
I don't use social media.
It's a social disease and there are proven links between the time spent on social media and a person's sense of isolation, self-worth and levels of depression and anxiety. It can contribute to many disorders, not least of all Internet / Social media addicition, which is a recognised problem for which treatment is becoming more and more available.
Social media services have admitted to running experiments in emotional influence through content feed.
Social media is a blight and its primary purpose is no longer to connect people, but to collect data for targetted advertisement.
By not using social media, I miss out on a lot of real life social connection - because "you mean you didn't see the facebook group update about the event..?" - No, because I like to keep my socialising in real life.
When I have used social media in the past, I've ended up connected with hundreds of thousands of people I don't know and, by making a decision to not use it - I reclaimed hours of my life that was spend wasted, scrolling through things and opinions and information that had no relevancy to my life or provoked me to engage in discussions about subjects that I really don't care about... Sometimes to the point where I'd get angry.
(I don't consider 7 Cups to be social media - it's a site that offers a service. Also I probably misunderstood the purpose of this exercise.)
Here we learn try and spread.. but I don't know the word soldier..
In the Vets. and Mil. Support community - instead of soldier it's "[Civil] Servants".
In the UK, STABs (derogatory acronym for "Stupid Territorial Army B'stds") was one contributing factor in renaming this branch as the "reserves/reservists", as well as providing an umbrella term for all services. Not only "army".
Someone who'd been in the Navy (incl. Fleet Air Arm, Marine, etc...) might not be happy with Project Firefly diminishing their 12-20+ years' to STAB, 'cos they completed [career] commission or are a day over 40.
Is a Social Solider an enlisted member of some kind of "SS"?
Soldier, for me, carries militant and agressive association (welcome to Facebook), that aren't so positive from my tiny and insignificant world-view.
Still - semantics is the last resort of the pedantic, eh?