The Full Picture?
What is the Full Picture?
The Full Picture is a short film exploring how young people use social media to connect and share. The film highlights the influences and pressures young people face online and encourages them to see the full picture.
Social media helps us share our lives but it does not tell the whole story. The campaign encourages young people to be mindful of what influences them and how they respond to pressures online.
Advice
Online Pressures – filter the good from the bad
Social media is a great place to connect with others and to share parts of our lives, see into other people’s worlds, and is a fantastic platform to raise awareness about important issues.
Myth v Reality – the full picture
While social media has many benefits, it can be a place where we feel pressure to live up to certain standards, or which can instil self-doubt when we see images or the lifestyles of others.
Algorithms – you are who you like?
Have you noticed that when you go online or login to social media you are presented with content, news, articles or ads that somehow know what you are interested in?
Keeping it Real
Like in the offline world, life online has its ups and downs. We can strike the balance, by embracing the positives of social media and the internet, and disregarding the negatives.
What do teens think?
Developed in conjunction with the Webwise Youth Advisory Panel (made up of 30 teenagers from across the country), The Full Picture is a short film exploring how young people use social media to connect and share. The film highlights the influences and pressures young people face online and encourages them to see the full picture. Social media helps us share our lives but it does not tell the whole story
Read what they had to say about the topic.
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Teachers
Teachers can order or download our free Connected teaching resource. Module one of the Connected programme helps students explore the topic of online wellbeing.
The Full Picture Lesson
The Full Picture Lesson has been designed to assist and support teachers of SPHE when teaching their students about the influences and pressures young people may face while using social media, the impact on their self-esteem online and how to manage their online wellbeing.
The aim is to encourage students to be mindful of the impact, both positive and negative, social media can have on how we feel and empower them with the resources and strategies to manage their own online wellbeing.
