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Anyone can be a Social Soldier! Find out more here!~ (OLD THREAD)

Cadence March 21st, 2015

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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Zelda64 January 7th, 2016

Great idea

Nahlazii January 7th, 2016

Ive shared the new link! :

Itisreal January 7th, 2016

Ive started a blog about it!

TnT5102014 January 8th, 2016

Just shared my link on Twitter. I hope someone can use it! 7Cups was here for me when I needed them, so I want to do the same for someone else!

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Amelia January 8th, 2016

@TnT5102014

That's great that you're spreading the word!! Are you interested in signing up for Social Soldiers? If so, here is the LINK to the application--just indicate which team(s) you are interested in.

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Frejya January 8th, 2016

how can i be a social soldier?

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Amelia January 8th, 2016

@Frejya

You can read about Social Soldiers on this first post here: Anyone Can be a Social Soldier. Then, to sign up for one (or more) of the teams, you can fill out this form: Social Soldiers Signup.

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somerandomer999 January 10th, 2016

i share it to all my friends on facebook

Annie January 11th, 2016

I'm not as active on Facebook as I used to be, but I like to post links to favorite threads in the forum, and let people know about the opportunity for 1-to-1 chats when they need someone to chat with in the middle of the night!

pixelatedNDN January 11th, 2016

This makes me so happy, I am so so glad that this is around, it is a genius idea :)

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Zelda64 January 12th, 2016

@pixelatedNDN I agree :)

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Camila4u January 12th, 2016

Hey ☺ im here to help you just ask and i will always be there

Ragdoll16 January 12th, 2016

I do Media Studies at school and our current assignment is to make a digital video story thing. So I was thinking of doing it about 7 cups of tea and how amazing it is and the generous, empathetic, compassionate people on here and I guess it'll also spread awareness as we have to present it to the class, teacher and I think half the year? I'm not certain.

Spreadin' the love ^-^