Do you have any questions around mental health & social media/Facebook? Ask the experts at Facebook - 3x £100 vouchers to be won

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We’ve been working with Facebook to find out the key areas users want to know about the social media platform. From our research and activity so far we have found 4 main areas that parents have questions around: ‘Moderating content’, ‘User's data privacy’, ‘Mental health & social media’ and ‘Safe use of the internet/Facebook’. We will be running 4 Q&A’s in order to cover these areas and allow MNers the chance to ask their questions on each topic.

This Q&A is about ‘mental health & social media/Facebook’. This covers subjects such as: using social media in a positive and healthy way, support groups, the effects social media has on mental health and how to take precautions to mitigate against them, for example managing the amount of time spent on social media.

Here’s what Facebook has to say: “We want to talk openly about the impact spending time on online has on people. For us, Facebook is at its best when it's bringing communities of people together around the issues and causes they care about in a positive way. But it's also our responsibility to help our community of over 40 million people in the UK in every way that we can – and it's a responsibility we take very seriously. It's important to think about the amount of time people spend on social media, and also how they spend that time too."
#AskFacebook

Would you like to hear about the research Facebook have done about mental health and social media? Do you want to know how you can view the amount of time you spend on Facebook? Perhaps you’d like to know more about Facebook’s efforts to fill your feed with your friend’s posts rather than ads? Or maybe you would just like to know more about how Facebook is helping its users have a more positive relationship with social media?

Whatever questions you have around mental health & social media/Facebook, please post them on the thread below and we will choose approximately 10 for Facebook to answer. Everyone who posts their questions will be entered into a prize draw where 3 MNers will win a £100 voucher of their choice (from a list).

If you would like to ask questions about ‘moderating content’ please click here
If you would like to ask questions about ‘user’s data privacy’ please click here
If you would like to ask questions about ‘safe use of the internet/Facebook’ please click here

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw
MNHQ

Standard Insight T&Cs Apply

What makes facebook so addictive? Does facebook actively try to increase the time users spend on the site per day and what effect does this have on users' mental health?

How do your algorithms respond to someone posting about MH issues? Do you automatically flag support organisations as recommended content?

When I see a post from a friend who is down I try to help but I often don't know what to say. I think often a few kind words from someone who genuinely likes you go a long way. Is there anything Facebook can put in place to make this easier? Like is a status is getting lots of ((hugs)) or xxxx in their comments, maybe these could be given higher priority in the feed/to be seen by more of their close friends, who they interact a lot with, comment- or like-wise, as opposed to, say, someone you used to work with.

Is overuse of social media linked to social anxiety ? How / when / where could we measure or help with this ?

Does Facebook provide any real support to mental health services or could they provide their own?

Is facebook actively seeking to close down 'closed groups' created to 'glamourise' eating disorders, self harm, depression and worst of all suicide.

How well trained are Facebook staff in understanding the complexities around mental health and early prevention

How many people are involved in the decision of whether to flag a post as high risk?

Do facebook moderators have up to date training to spot posts from vulnerable young people, keywords, looking at posts and comments put against them to spot the signs of bullying, negativity and teasing which impacts on our teens who can hide their inner feelings from those most close to them ?

How do you weigh up the element of potential safeguarding, with a users right to privacy and protection of their information?

I mean this as in if someone was suicidal online, and there was a request to release their personal details to the police

Cyber bullying is a huge factor impacting mental health in young people. Can Facebook do more to prevent this do you think and if so what?

Do you think people are becoming immune to things which should shock and offend them? Is social media responsible for people feeling detached from everyday real life ?

Do you have access to any data about how long individual users are on Facebook at any one time, and if so how do you use it? Would you consider issuing 'health warning' style reminders to users about how long they've been using the site?

Hi Everyone

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