The social media landscape had changed significantly since I first started using MSN. Since then the role of status updates had changed, moving ever further away from facilitating personal interaction.

How there is no longer a social dimension to social media

Many ideas surrounding suicide tend to shift the blame towards the person deciding to get rid of their life.  
In this post I introduce a paradox surrounding those supporting the suicidal person, also potentially being the cause of these suicidal ideations in the first place.

Who is to blame for suicide?

About social media, advertisements, and psychological trauma

Some thoughts around drug use, personal identification with it, and its pathway to addiction

About self identification with substance (ab)use

With the 'zombification of the mentally ill' I refer to a process where those dealing with mental health issues are muted due an underlying and unconscious fear one will eventually have to face their own trauma.

Zombification of the mentally ill

I'd argue that those fostering a belief to exist as totally rational beings for the sole reason they deny the existence of emotions, might in fact be the most emotional beings around. This is what I'd call 'the paradox of the rational mind'.

Curls, clouds and code

#sociology

About social media, advertisements, and psychological trauma

Who is to blame for suicide?

Group dynamics surrounding identity, appropriation and inclusion

Implicit vs explicit meetings