Awarepreneurs #310 Reclaiming Your Online Sanity: A Social Media Plan for Polarized Times with Paul Zelizer
Paul Zelizer 00:00:01 - 00:00:30
Hi. This is Paul Zoliser. And welcome to the Entrepreneurs podcast. On this show, we dive deep into wisdom from some of the world's leading social entrepreneurs. Our goal is to help you increase your positive impact, your profitability, and your quality of life. Before we get into today's topic, I have one request if you could hit subscribe and do a review on your favorite podcast app. It helps more people learn how to have positive impact through a values based business. Thank you so much.
Paul Zelizer 00:00:30 - 00:01:29
Today. It's time for our monthly solo episode with yours truly, Paul Zellazer, the founder of the Awarepreneurs podcast. And our topic is Reclaiming Your Online Sanity a social media plan for Polarized Times. Now, recently, Twitter, now known as X, sent me a message that wanted me to post about it's my 15 year anniversary. I joined Twitter more than 15 years ago. Now, it's kind of hard to imagine, but I'm a bit of an old timer in this weird reality called social media. And the reason I'm bringing that up is because more and more of my clients are talking about issues of feeling social media overwhelm the connection between social media and their mental health and feeling like when they spend too much time on social media, it's not good for their well being. And we've certainly seen a lot of research.
Paul Zelizer 00:01:30 - 00:03:10
For instance, some of the things that we've seen that very significant, organizations that I trust that are saying that here's a few data points. Number one, that when the overall number of hours that people spend more hours, they're on the top 25% or even top 10% of users in terms of hours spent per day on social media. The correlation between those robust users of social media and mental health challenges like depression and anxiety is way, way up. We also know that when people use more platforms, people who are regular users of seven for more social media platforms have more mental health issues than people who use two or less. We also notice, or the research tells us that when you use social media first thing in the morning and especially late at night, right before going to bed, that challenges with sleep and waking up more frequently. There's more and more research suggesting that and also more challenges with our mental health and our ability to focus. When we're frequently checking, like, let's say you're in the middle of a project or writing an email or you're working on a podcast episode, whoops stop? I got to stop that podcast episode because something interesting might be happening on social media. These kinds of behaviors are all correlated with more mental health challenges.
Paul Zelizer 00:03:11 - 00:03:58
So today I want to explore with you, particularly right now as I'm recording this to go live on November 1 of 2023. There's some very poignant things happening in the world. It's beyond the scope of this particular podcast. But if you're listening, I think you know what I'm talking about. There is just a lot of charge and anxiety and uncertainty and that's translating into really intense, just snap conflicts happening on social media. My clients and colleagues and myself. Sometimes it's hard to know what to do with all that and how to make sense. So first of all, I just wanted to say you're not crazy.

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