Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network Show Name: Find Your KindEpisode #4: Cyber-KindHello and welcome back! You are listening to Find Your Kind the podcast with your host Delaney Janks. You’re currently listening to this podcast on the Hopewell Valley Student Publications Network where students come together to publish content to share with the world. Please note that the opinions expressed in this episode are mine, and mine alone. In this episode, “Cyber-Kind”, I’ll be discussing ways you can be kind on the internet and how to promote an overall more positive digital atmosphere.
Segment 1: Importance- The internet and its bad reputation
- The internet/social media don’t have to be a place full of negativity
- Everytime you log on, you have the power to impact people all around the world
- It’s easy to be kind in real life, but it can be even easier to be kind on social media
Segment 2: What can you do - Our attachment to social media
- Being off of social media is harder than we think
- Allows us to make connections with people we can’t otherwise communicate with
- You feel like you’re missing out
- Great things about social media:
- Allows us to listen to and express different perspectives on things and become more open-minded thinkers
- Gives us access to so many forms of education
- Connects us with people
- Being online can also be quite toxic and is for a lot people detrimental to their mental health
- There’s a place where users forget that the people you’re interacting with or talking about on social media are actual humans too
- For public figures, a lot of people think it's “fair game” to be brutal with them
- Brutal comments on happy/innocent content
- Everyone is flawed and even well intentioned people make mistakes
- Before you bash someone online for something, first think about what you’re doing, why you’re doing it, is it going to help in any way, and are you just doing it to make yourself feel better about something?
- Respectfully and privately calling others out when they might be wrong
- What are some things we can do to be kinder on social media?
- Think before you comment
- Don’t like or retweet mean...