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Understanding VSCO - Features, Safety, and Potential Risks

VSCO is a photo editing app with numerous features and filters, offering a safer alternative to Instagram. However, it poses potential risks that could impact your child’s safety. This guide explores VSCO's functionalities and the associated safety concerns.

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Social Media Disadvantages

Social media has disadvantages: mental health issues, addiction, privacy risks, fake news, social isolation, self-esteem impact, sleep problems, cyberbullying, filter bubbles, and digital inequality. Be aware and use responsibly.

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The Pros & Cons of Social Media for Athletic Trainers

Social media is everywhere, and while it can be distracting, it also offers valuable tools for athletic trainers (ATs). Here's a breakdown of how athletic trainers can use social media effectively, the potential downsides, and some key guidelines to follow:

How Can Athletic Trainers Use Social Media?

Promote their organization: Increase visibility and attract new patients.

Provide patient care: Use secure platforms for monitoring health, encouraging healthy habits, and facilitating communication.

Educate patients: Share reliable information through blogs, videos, and online communities.

Why is Social Media Valuable for Athletic Trainers?

Patients are already using social media to connect with healthcare providers, learn about services, and interact with others.

Athletic trainers can leverage these platforms to connect with patients, promote their services, and improve patient outcomes.

What are the Downsides of Social Media?

Unprofessional content: Posting inappropriate content can damage your professional image.

Boundary violations: Connecting with patients on social media can compromise professional boundaries.

Legal and licensing issues: Inappropriate use can lead to disciplinary actions and legal issues. HIPAA regulations require protecting patient privacy online.

How to Use Social Media Professionally:

Share credible information only.

Be mindful of legal concerns (privacy, copyright).

Follow your state's licensing requirements.

Don't contact patients to connect on personal networks.

Avoid giving specific medical advice online.

Protect patient privacy with strong security settings and obtain consent when necessary.

Maintain separate personal and professional profiles.

Disclose any financial or in-kind compensation received.

Social media can be a powerful tool for athletic trainers, but it's important to use it ethically and responsibly. By following these guidelines, athletic trainers can leverage the benefits of social media while avoiding potential pitfalls.

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Las coincidencias ya son tantas que dejaron de ser una casualidad. Centenas de ciudades en el mundo y decenas de Ministerios de Educación deciden restringir o eliminar el uso de tecnología para la educación, retornando al papel y a la bibliografía tradicional. Los celulares empiezan a ser dejados en el ingreso a las escuelas, incluso en Argentina. Los legisladores norteamericanos llevaron al banquillo a Mark Zuckerberg, propietario de Meta, y a los directores ejecutivos de TikTok, Discord, X y Snap en una audiencia del Comité Judicial del Senado denominada “Las grandes tecnologías y la crisis de la explotación sexual infantil en línea”. La Comunidad Económica Europea estudia una legislación común que limite y controle la disponibilidad online para niños y adolescentes. La OMS incluye entre las enfermedades mentales la adicción a los videojuegos y se comienzan a leer papers científicos en Nature y Cell, dos de los más prestigiosos medios del sector, que dan cuenta de investigaciones sobre las consecuencias del uso indiscriminado de pantallas. Según un informe de la encuesta del Pew Research Center publicado en 2022, casi la mitad de los adolescentes estadounidenses de entre 13 y 17 años están en línea "casi constantemente". Dificultades en el desarrollo cognitivo, retraso en el lenguaje y las capacidades de comunicación, cambios neurológicos concretos, sedentarismo, problemas de visión, afecciones que comprometen la sanidad mental…  

Los efectos de las redes sociales y pantallas en la salud de los jóvenes son reales y van en aumento. La imposibilidad de contar con generaciones adultas que ya atravesaron el proceso impide aún conocer el impacto a largo plazo. Es aquí donde aparece una compañía de seguros sueca, Länsförsäkringar Göteborg and Bohuslän, radicada en Gotemburgo, que decidió invertir en un proyecto científico tecnológico para prevenir enfermedades entre los jóvenes. Ya había hecho lo propio con varias iniciativas para contrarrestar el acoso en línea, la imagen corporal negativa y las enfermedades mentales. Así nació Laika, un chatbot adolescente ideado con IA criado únicamente en las redes sociales. Su personalidad, ideales y opiniones están 100 % moldeados por el contenido y el clima de las plataformas digitales populares. A través de ella, los científicos están pudiendo observar y comprender los riesgos potenciales de consumir demasiadas pantallas, sin exponer a niños reales. 

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Social media is an outstanding tool for disseminating information, creating community and accurately targeting the right audiences for your messages. However, there are risks involved. HOAs and condo association boards must take a proactive and educated approach to this communication tool to avoid negative consequences.  Social media, to say the least, is complex. It provides a venue for good and a podium for bad and sometimes the best intentions can result in the worst of results. Social media is as complex and layered as the human beings that use it. Read the article at http://bit.ly/2kdJblF

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Social Media and Interpersonal relationships

Sexting: noun, Digital Technology.

the sending of sexually explicit digital images, videos, text messages,or emails, usually by cell phone (Dictionary, 2010).

 Sexting and, more specifically, when it goes wrong gets problematic when the person that initially took the photo is not the sender anymore (Belgian Safer Internet Center, 2016).

 Who’s fault is it then in that case? According to a Belgian research 70 percent out of 3000 students in the age between 12 and 18 agreed upon it is the sender of the sext its fault. Not the ones who made a screenshot or send it to third parties.

Sexting can cause severe damage to youngsters and adults for both sender and receiver. The sender could get a bad reputation that, in some cases, will follow you till the end of time. For teenagers a good reputation is important to feel acknowledged and appreciated by peers. Brake this and real harm could be done.

A receiver who spreads the message could be charged for child pornography when the picture is of someone under 18. Both parties could also be suspended from school and phones will be confiscated.

Experts suggest that it is not unusual for teenagers to share sexting-type content online, particularly when they are in a relationship (BIK Team, 2017). According to Danah Boyd, an ethnographer from the United States, teen sexting is a very rational act with very irrational consequences. But lines are very blurry she indicates. Since we have the ability of uploading and sending our own content the lines between what is sexy and what is sexually explicit have become quite vague.

 Boyd reveres to the age-old practice of “slut shaming” where it nowadays has a new meaning  combined with the spreading of nude pictures of others. In some cases the shaming gets to the point a child commits suicide because of the ongoing shaming.

 How do we stop this?

Boyd and several other support websites note that it is important to educate not only the children, but also their parents, teachers and neighbours on the topic. Boyd gives us five core questions we must consider when reflecting on sexting:

  How old     are the various participants involved? We must think about the subject of     the image, the sender, and the recipient.

How     explicit is the content being shared? Are we talking about bikini photos     or are we talking about depiction of sex acts?

What is     the intention behind the creation of the image? Are we talking about     self-portraits, images created under coercion, or images created without     the knowledge of the subject?

What is     the intention behind the sharing of the image? Is it being shared for a     private sex act or a flirtation? Or is it being shared to humiliate or     shame someone? Or is it being shared for personal profit?

How does     someone feel when they receive these images? Is the recipient delighted to     receive the image or is it received as a form of harassment?

Do you still feel like sexting after this? Several websites noted that when sexting, keep in mind you might want to cover your face. In that way it is harder to point out it is you in the