3 Missing Ingredients for Fabulous Facebook Connections
Is your social networking experience missing something? Here’s how to make something more of it with an extra helping of three ingredients.
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Is your social networking experience missing something? Here’s how to make something more of it with an extra helping of three ingredients.
What do misbehaving toddlers, out-of-control rock stars, and sleazy online vendors all have in common? They’re all depending on the same psychological principle to keep themselves in the limelight.
On behalf of all of us at CounsellingResource.com, I’d like to extend the warmest welcome to our two newest members of the team: Ask the Psychologist contributors Dr Susan Berel and Dr Jim Bierman.
You’ve heard of accidentally ‘enabling’ the maladaptive behavior of others. But to what extent is our collection of technological gadgetry ‘enabling’ our own inclination to live overly-complicated, unsustainably fast-paced lives that are ultimately damaging to our well-being?
Seeking connections with others is an innate human drive, and having a strong social network of friends and loved ones has clear health benefits. But in a fragmented world, is ‘connectedness’ too much to hope for?
A short while ago, we began expanding our writing team, and we’ve been thrilled with the tremendous response we’ve received. (Stay tuned for our big welcome to the latest mental health professionals to join us!) But we’re still looking for a new psychologist to join our team publishing replies to questions submitted anonymously by our readers. If that’s you, the clock is ticking: it’s time to give us a shout!
Today our Ask the Psychologist column reaches a new milestone, and thanks are in order — thanks to our team, thanks to those who have written in, and thanks especially to our readers.
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