00:00and then we're good i'm going to sleep no you're not i'm gonna hold your nose
00:06no i won't that's weird dude i was doing that but all that popped up was gay men okay
00:13i was sick and tired
00:14it's gonna be worse for like queer people and like people with like niche interests i guess
00:34because like that's the only way they can find their community and some people also use it to
00:40like vent their feelings and like talk to people to like get help or something so i feel like it
00:48would be fine for some people but for some people it would like worsen their mental health because
00:52you're sending the the like isolated alone people back like they are not gonna they might not figure
01:00out how to get the help they need because sometimes the google search isn't enough and like you're
01:06cutting off the people from like others who can potentially help them and like get sources to get
01:12help yeah many people now and even before now have been very attached to social media and some people
01:22use it as like a lifeline for like escaping reality and like entering digital world
01:30good morning everything good morning do you like to play and have fun
01:37boom that feels finding a community that like accepts you as a person and like
01:45what you are whether as online you find more people that like understand you and um they just like
01:54get you more
02:17i did i faced a lot of backlash pretty heavily um i got bullied pretty badly which is terrible and
02:24disgusting but it was what i was experiencing at that time um slurs being yelled at me things being
02:31thrown at me i was followed home at points and it was hard it was hard trying to navigate finding
02:37myself but also finding a safe space to be myself school didn't help at all
02:42it's a cute skirt why'd you get it
02:56for me it was my community and my lifeline social media was the place that i went to when i needed
03:01people to talk to who understood me obviously being a young queer person in a pretty small school with
03:06less than 600 it was difficult to find people who understood what i was going through but could also
03:11relate and help me in those situations and i was so fortunate to find a community of people online
03:16who not only understood my struggles but could help me through them and i could talk to and i'm still
03:21friends with most of them to this day from not only all across australia but all across the world
03:41they are mixed in their view and opinion i think there's definitely can be some benefits of restricting
04:00or reducing their reliance on social media for their well-being we know that social media can be
04:07an avenue of harm for young people in terms of things like unrealistic body image for example or
04:13exposure to bullying or predators online so there's those influences that will be reduced
04:20on the other side what we're concerned about is that young people still have mechanisms and avenues for
04:25connection and for help seeking
04:39if you think about a young person who might be living in a rural or remote community who may identify as
04:44part of the lgbtqi plus community for example and or be part of a multicultural community and or might
04:51live with a disability those sorts of the more marginalized you can become the less likely you
04:56might be able to have people around you that you feel understand you look like you are interested in
05:02the same things and it's those people i think that are starting to feel concerned that where they find
05:08connection online might not be as easy to find offline suicide in something called suicide postvention
05:15which aims to go in support those communities and reduce it's all it's the job of growing up is to
05:21explore your identity and if you don't have safe places to do that then isolation distress can escalate
05:28really quite quickly i thought you were all pictures but i was like no it looks like she's on discord
05:37she said but we have to get our nails done today i don't care this is a one in a life
05:45for me personally it's slightly problematic because you're basically isolated for about six
05:58weeks during the school holidays um during the start of it i think i won't be as dependent on social
06:06media as i will be hanging out as i will be socializing with family um but as it continues on
06:14um i will probably like feel more attached to social media
06:32this one and this one like this one i think yeah like start of the school year maybe because that's
06:38when people are actually like out and about at school they can talk to each other it was it's
06:44kind of an unfortunate time to do this my biggest thing is that if somebody can go get a piercing
06:57can go get a job can go get their own medicare card can get a tax file number can go take their
07:03driver's knowledge test before the age of 16 and they can do all of these things with trust that they're
07:08responsible enough to handle it and advocate for themselves if it becomes too much how can we then
07:13say they can't hold a social media account uh uh can i get a can i get a uh go go
07:25i've already said i'm good
07:38so
07:43there
07:43i
07:45i
07:54i
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