Month: February 2015

It is very important to have quality information on addiction available online, but it is also very important to have online space for people to discuss the matter of addiction. Receiving information is only the first step in processing it as a society. Socially negotiating it and arriving at conclusions about it is the second step. This is where online chat rooms and forums become valuable. In online chat rooms and forums, people can discuss, debate and ask questions about the information they have received on addiction, as well as express their own personal opinions on the subject.

Chat rooms and forums created for the purpose of discussing addiction allow people the opportunity to be emotionally invested in the matter. Many people have personal experiences with addiction, either through a family member, a friend or from firsthand experience. Sharing personal information with others about how addiction is perceived can be very helpful. It can broaden people’s understanding of the matter and correct fallacies that people have held on to.

An important method of determining how we feel about addiction as a society is through social negotiation. When we have the opportunity to disseminate the things we learn socially and factor in the perceptions of others, we form a collective opinion that has roots in community and culture. Sometimes these social negotiations do not come out as informed or ethical as they should be, as many opinions of addiction have historically been, but as more and more accurate information on addiction is circulated online, the more worthwhile discussion topics can be brought to places like online chat rooms and forums.

When people unify for a cause, action is initiated by unified opinions. The spread of information is only the beginning of action through unity. When people receive quality information on addiction and meet online to discuss it further, bi-products of social negotiation can include committees, support groups, fundraisers, membership opportunities and other community efforts that aim to set public perceptions of addiction right.

The internet is full of information, some legitimate and some not so much. Anyone is free to add content to the internet, so professional opinions and uninformed opinions alike compete for attention and readership. Information on mental health issues such as addiction is very important to verify before spreading further, because if it is a non-credible source of information, it can do more harm than good. To ensure that the addiction information you found online is credible, make sure that it comes from either an established news source, a professional or academic opinion or another form of quality research with cited sources.

Established news sources, such as a well-trusted newspaper or a time-tested editorial, can be a great source of information on addiction. Often, these forms of journalism attract the highest quality writers who stand behind every bit of research contained within the piece. They make use of legitimate sources such as academic studies or interviews with industry professionals to provide the best in factual information. If you want to circulate addiction information from a trusted news source, chances are it is a worthwhile read.

Professional and academic opinions on addiction are invaluable pieces of insight on the internet. Studies conducted by mental health research institutions, articles written by PhD holders in psychology and psychiatry and information provided by addiction industry professionals are excellent pieces of information to make available to the public online. When it comes to credibility and accountability in writing on addiction, these sources are the best.

There are other quality forms of information on addiction available online, such as student dissertations and personal interest group pieces. Someone with intellect who is willing to work at collecting and organizing research can produce important information. The staff of rehabilitation centers, such as drug detox clinics and alcohol rehabs Canada, can also be expert sources of information. These pieces are often found in blogs or private websites that internet users subscribe to and end up sharing through social media and other websites. Quality information on addiction is available online to those willing to seek it out.

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The spread of information on addiction has ranged from word of mouth to written words and now to the internet. The internet has become everyone’s favorite method of circulating information, moving at the speed of a mouse click and right at your fingertips. Of all the channels and mediums on the internet, social media is the most active. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube and Pinterest are some of the most trafficked that exist. This is why information on addiction that is circulated through social media is particularly critical to the mainstream understanding of what addiction is and how to approach it.

First of all, social media offers a faster exchange of ideas than any other information sharing medium. The volume of people that use social media sites is astounding, making up 74-percent of all internet users. Whole societies are online using social media. When information on addiction becomes popular on social media and is exchanged between millions of internet users, it is making the biggest impression on the public that addiction information can make.

The breadth of the how far information travels on social media over time is remarkable. Articles and pictures go global in minutes, and over time the information and images are available in virtually every nation on earth. Social media has a wider reach than every other type of website. The average person may not want to spend time doing research online, but they do want online community and will be exposed to more ideas and facts on addiction than in any other medium.

The importance of this circulation on addiction is the public discourse that takes place as a result of it. Addiction is a largely misunderstood thing that people stigmatize and judge constantly. There is a dire need for discourse and sharing of ideas on addiction so that our culture will learn to approach it more respectfully, in a supportive manner rather than a condemning manner. Social media can help with that effort tremendously.

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Social media is frequently not taken seriously as a way of spreading information, but in fact, there is very good reason to take social media seriously. There is no way of communicating information more efficient and widespread than social media simply for the reason that it reached the widest audience. Even the most trusted news sources cannot rival the following that a site like Facebook has. This is why discussions and information exchanges on addiction that take place within a social medium can be the most influential, and thus the most valuable.

The three vessels or versions of truth that academia has agreed upon are objective, subjective and socially negotiated truth. Social media communication strongly exemplifies the vessel of truth that is social negotiation. If someone can command and spread an opinion on a social media site like Facebook or Twitter, they will be leading a huge demographic in public opinion. On the other hand, people make it their business to counter arguments on social media sites, even if they are just playing devil’s advocate. This can result in a very objective examination of information on social media. This type of information spread is changing social stigmas on addiction by bringing light to the addict’s plight. There is a great deal of information about addiction that the general public is not aware of, and social media is promoting the spread of open-minded ideas on the matter.

The information exchanged through social media spreads rapidly and circulates widely. This makes it a very valuable platform for the spread of ideas. There are a great many notions of addiction that need to be put to rest, such as the idea of addiction being a mere character flaw or addiction being reduced to nothing but a self-control issue. By spreading the truth about addiction via social media, people can encounter fresh ideas and information sources that will educate them on the true nature of addiction.

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