CIP Tafalla - Lecture on "Social networks and mental health" (Coexistence Week)

 

Last Tuesday 14th December, at CIP Tafalla school, we held the week of coexistence and the 1st GSA group took part in the lecture on "Social networks and mental health", given by Julen from the Macsonrisas team.

In the lecture we dealt with issues of cybersecurity, on how social networks affect us and the proper use of networks for our health.

First, the lecture began by teaching us how to protect our social networks against hackers. Some of the protections he recommended were: activate the "two-step verification" in our social networks, how to create a secure password and inform us on how often it is recommended to change it. Also, how to identify that we are being spied on with the use of some recommendations and practical apps, so that they cannot access our location, microphones and cameras of our electronic devices.

 

Apart from that, we talked about raising awareness on how everything we see on social networks is not real; what this transmits to us, the unrealistic standards of life that this generates on people and how it negatively affects our mental health. This can lead to problems such as isolation, depression, insecurities, etc.

Additionally, we also talked about how social networks were made to create addiction and how this addiction can affect us. He advised us to control the time of use, to create moments without devices, to be aware if we have an addiction problem and to ask for help if we need it.

 

In conclusion, the workshop was very informative and illuminating. There were many new topics that he taught us and others that we already knew, but it was not bad to recheck them whatsoever. It was rather interesting and not only we liked it a great deal, we will also put into practice everything we learnt because it was, indeed, very useful.

 

 

Angie Llerena, 1ºGSA, CIP Tafalla