Anyone can be a Social Soldier! Find out more here!~ (OLD THREAD)
Welcome to the official forum thread for the Social Soldiers! Im glad youre here; youre amazing, and Im glad youre part of the community.
Introduction
The Social Soldiers project was created with the intent on eliminating the stigma that comes along with mental illness on social media, guiding those who are depressed/having a hard time/need someone to talk to right here to 7CupsOfTea. As Laura explained in her lovely thread right here, we need to be here for people who may feel as though they have no other place to turn.
What are Social Soldiers?
Social Soldiers are people that use 7Cups-designated social media to guide people in the right direction, hopefully leading them to the site where they can talk to someone who truly cares. They use the handles Twitter, Reddit and/or Tumblr, and check the tags for depression, or self harm, or anything along those lines.
Who can be a Social Soldier?
Anyone! Thats the beauty of this project; literally anyone can get involved with it.
What isnt a Social Soldier?
Sharing your own personal social media with other members/listeners.
Someone that shares their personal social media in this thread.
Just to debunk a question that may be asked, you can totally share your referral link on your personal social media handles, however we do ask that you dont share your personal social media handle here. If you have a big following on Twitter, and youd rather use your personal account to spread the word, thats totally okay, just do not share with other members/listeners your personal account. If you have any questions on this, feel free to PM me.
How to get involved?
Read through our post on the new team, to understand the changes a little more as well as to find the links to apply.
Project Leadership
@ArwaS - Project Leader
@Erato - Twitter Team Leader
@Yendi - Tumblr Team Leader
Find 7 Cups on social media here - Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest
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Confused
I love being a social soldier it been nice reaching out to people... Had such an amazing chat with someone from twitter that said You reached out and saved my life... Great program guys! Honored to be apart of it :)
I want to be so skinny that when a boy hugs me his arms wrap around to my stomach. I want to be so skinny every girl will be jealous that my stomach is flat when I sit down. I want to be so skinny that I can layer clothes and get compliments on how tiny I look. I want to be so skinny, that when I look in the mirror I actually think I look skinny for once. I want to be so skinny that my bones will show and Ill smile because of it. I want to be so skinny, because I want to feel beautiful.
BUT
Eating disorders are not an escape for our problems, they wont magically fix things in our lives and if anything they make our lives worse.
Eating Disorder behaviour in an attempt to become ‘beautiful does not bring happiness. The only thing that will truly make you happy is searching and finding who you truly are, your passions and sticking to these and trying to feel comfortable with this.
Society doesnt want you to become ill, please, ask for help before it spins out of control. Its okay, dont worry, professionals understand and all they want is the best for you.
Was just checking out 7Cups on Tumblr...You Guys are Awesome :)
Great idea! I have a Twitter account dedicated to mental health issues which I use to raise awareness, since becoming a listener I also tweet about 7 cups and have had quite a few followers join. I'm going to read more into how I can help by being a social soldier.
found out about this just today :-D
please count me in, form submitted.
my 7 cups twitter account https://twitter.com/Sam7cups
cheers.
I also was trying to post something on reddit recently, but have no good experience with it, and recieved few messages for the mods there that I'm being spam :-D
any help with that would be appreciated.
my reddit account : Sam7cups
cheers.
My 7 cups of tea Twitter: @JohnnyM_7Cups
My 7 cups of tea Tumbler: http://johnnym-7cups.tumblr.com/
I do have one question:
Can we share our 7 cups of tea social media handles with other listeners/members?
@JohnnyM
Hi there, sweetpea! Thanks for your question, it's so appreciated and it's clear that you're passionate about 7Cups' growth -- which is undoubtedly AWESOME! Yes, you can share your 7Cups Social Soldier social media handle with others, as it's only used for that purpose.
Hope I helped in some way!
Alright thank you!
@ZaraSmiles
Anyone can be a listener by a simple click of a button......I do it and i love it
My 7cups tumblr is @LuluGrace-7cups! <3