Customizing Your Social Media

“It’s 8:52 am. Sun is up. Drinking my morning coffee.”

Do you have a Facebook friend who seems to post about every little thing they do? Sometimes it’s interesting, but sometimes it’s just too much information.  Did you know there are ways to customize your Facebook experience to only see what you want to see?

A great article on informationweek.com lists ways to do this on Facebook by unfollowing, hiding posts, customizing newsfeed lists, and unfriending.

For us it may be annoying, but for our children, sometimes unwanted posts on their social media feeds may be emotionally disturbing.  A good conversation to have with your young person is about developing the skill of media decision making.  This involves reflecting on how certain social media posts make them feel, deciding whether this is something they want to see, and making a decision to either remove it from their newsfeeds or to know when to step away. Learning to change the channel, that you can and you should decide when to change the channel is a skill.

Dr. Michael Rich at Children’s Hospital of Boston gives some great tips for parents on how to influence their child’s media consumption. Check it out!

And share below any experiences you’ve had or what you’ve learned.