NZAP 2.0

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NZAP 2.0

• Into the Unknown
• Psychotherapy and online social media
• Kyle MacDonald
• www.psychotherapy.org.nz
• twitter.com/_at_kylemacd

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• The term "Web 2.0" (2004present) is commonly
  associated with web applications that facilitate
  interactive information sharing, interoperability,
   user-centered design and collaboration on the
  World Wide Web. A Web 2.0 site allows its users
  to interact with other users or to change
  website content, in contrast to non-interactive
  websites where users are limited to the passive
  viewing of information that is provided to them.
  Wikipedia

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• Social Media is not a fad it is a fundamental
  shift in the way we communicate.

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The Local Story

• NZ usage of the internet 79.6
• In NZ, Facebook use is at 1 million (25
  population)
• Facebook 150 growth in the last year
• More than half a million had been on either Bebo
  or MySpace in last month
• 64,000 had followed Twitter in last month
  http//blog.labour.org.nz/index.php/2010/01/10/soc
  ial-media-and-labour/

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Global Usage

• Led by Facebook, Twitter, Global Time Spent on
  Social Media Sites up 82 Year over Year (2009)
• Year-over-year growth in average time spent by
  U.S. users Facebook 200 and Twitter.com 368

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Global Usage

• Twitter.com continued its reign as the
  fastest-growing in December 2009 increasing 579
  2.7 million unique visitors in December 2008 to
  18.1 million in December 2009

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Social Networking
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Social Networking Sites

• Facebook
• Bebo (slightly younger average age)
• MySpace(more customizable commercial)
• QZone (Chinas Facebook)
• LinkedIn (Professional networking)
• Many other smaller specialty sites

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MySpace

• MySpace initially became the most popular social
  networking site in the United States in June 2006
  
• MySpace was overtaken internationally by its main
  competitor, Facebook, in April 2008, based on
  monthly unique visitors

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If Facebook were a country
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• China 1.3 Billion
• India 1.1 Billion
• Facebook 472 million monthly active users
• USA 308 million
• Indonesia 231 million
• Based on 2009 population figures.

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QZone

• Chinese only social networking site 200 million
  active users.
• Total users of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Qzone
  and Linkedin
• 1.5 billion

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• On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded
  Facebook with his college roommates and fellow
  computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin
  Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student
  at Harvard University.

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• What made Facebook revolutionary was the
  Newsfeed feature, creating low maintenance
  connection and socialising.
• Facebook was then opened on September 26, 2006 to
  everyone of ages 13 and older with a valid e-mail
  address.

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• In many ways its lack of flexibility has made it
  more popular
• Multiple applications
• Popularity of photo sharing
• Smartphone usage
• It is still growing exponentially, worldwide

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• A blog (a contraction of the term "web log")
  is a type of website, usually maintained by an
  individual with regular entries of commentary,
  descriptions of events, or other material such as
  graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed
  in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also
  be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add
  content to a blog.
• Wikipedia

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• The modern blog evolved from the online diary,
  where people would keep a running account of
  their personal lives
• The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary
  by an individual, is the traditional, most common
  blog
• Personal bloggers usually take pride in their
  blog posts, even if their blog is never read

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• Blogs often become more than a way to just
  communicate they become a way to reflect on
  life, or works of art
• As a form of journalism they remove corporate
  censorship and editing

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• What we have to do is deliver to people the
  best and freshest most relevant information
  possible. We think of Twitter as it's not a
  social network, but it's an information network.
  It tells people what they care about as it is
  happening in the world.
• Evan Williams Co-founder of Twitter.

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• Work on the project started on March 21, 2006,
  when Dorsey published the first Twitter message
  at 950 PM Pacific Standard Time (PST) "just
  setting up my twttr".

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• Micro-blogging.
• Evolved from Social networking status updates
  text messages and blogging.
• The fastest growing Web 2.0 site.
• Person to person small talk.
• It is what you make it massive flexibility.

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Social Grooming

• Social networking researcher Danah Boyd responded
  to the Pear Analytics survey by arguing that what
  the Pear researchers labelled "pointless babble"
  is better characterized as "peripheral awareness"
  or "social grooming".
• Wikipedia

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The Dunbar Number

• In 1998, the anthropologist Robin Dunbar argued
  that each human has a hard-wired upper limit on
  the number of people he or she can personally
  know at one time
• Dunbar noticed that ape groups tended to top out
  at 55 members. Since human brains were
  proportionally bigger, Dunbar figured that our
  maximum number of social connections would be
  similarly larger about 150 on average
• Are people who use Facebook and Twitter
  increasing their Dunbar number, because they can
  so easily keep track of so many more people?
• Cited in NYTimes http//www.nytimes.com/2008
  /09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html?_r2pagewanted
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Ambient Awareness

• It is, they say, very much like being physically
  near someone and picking up on his mood through
  the little things he does body language, sighs,
  stray comments out of the corner of your eye
• Cited in NYTimes http//www.nytimes.com/2008
  /09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html?_r2pagewanted
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• To me, the twitterverse is like a river of
  human awareness, composed of billions of tiny 140
  character molecules - each a snapshot of life or
  a thought or a reflection. A river of pure
  information that equals energy, according to the
  laws of quantum thermodynamics and stochastic
  processes.
• A river of life flowing by us as
  we meditate at its bank like some Siddhartha
  wannabe, in tattered jeans and Oakley sunglasses
  instead of orchid robes and begging bowl. And
  now, after long last, we see.
• We see the beauty of the river, that some
  now call ambient awareness. Moses Ma
• http//www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-tao
  -innovation/200903/understanding-the-psychology-tw
  itter?page2

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Weak ties versus intimacy

• Where sociality has truly exploded was in weak
  ties loose acquaintances, people known less
  well
• This rapid growth of weak ties can be a very good
  thing. Sociologists have long found that weak
  ties greatly expand your ability to solve
  problems
• Remote acquaintances will be much more useful,
  because theyre farther a field, yet still
  socially intimate enough to want to help you out

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Mood, and loneliness

• Initial research saw internet usage negatively
  and often dismissed online socializing as lonely
  escapism from the disquiet of real
  relationships
• However in 2006 two studies clarified that
  actually time spent online was unrelated to
  increased anxiety or depression, which were
  measured as markers of loneliness
• Only those who already showed lowered mood and
  anxiety and those who were already lonely were
  negatively affected
• Those who did best were those who used social
  media to extend and add value to their offline
  relationships
• Scientific American Mind Jan/ Feb 2010

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Narcissism

• Study showed that those tested offline and
  confirmed to have NPD traits were picked as
  Narcissistic on Facebook
• Untrained strangers were just as good at
  identifying narcissists from their Facebook page
  as they are at judging the personality of their
  friends
• Scientific American Mind Jan/ Feb 2010

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Narcissism

• What did they rate?
• A large number of contacts
• A glamorous appearance
• Staged quality to the main photo
• What is unclear from the research is the casual
  direction does using social media make people
  more narcissistic or is it simply a stage for
  those inclined in this way to use
• Scientific American Mind Jan/ Feb 2010

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Number of Friends and Interpersonal Impressions
on Facebook

• A central feature of the online social networking
  system, Facebook, is the connection to and links
  among friends.
• An experiment examined the relationship between
  the number of friends a Facebook profile featured
  and observers' ratings of attractiveness and
  extraversion

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Number of Friends and Interpersonal Impressions
on Facebook

• A curvilinear effect of sociometric popularity
  and social attractiveness emerged, as did a
  quartic relationship between friend count and
  perceived extraversion. These results suggest
  that an overabundance of friend connections
  raises doubts about Facebook users' popularity
  and desirability

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• Blogging and emotional health
• Those attracted to Blogging rate higher on levels
  of distress (Myspace users)
• Journaling and writing has been shown to
  alleviate distress.
• Is Blogging good for you?
• The perceived audience effect.

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Human Connection online
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Relational Consistency

• Dynamically we can consider the online world
  another part of Other in Malans Triangle.
• People behave online in a way that is consistent
  with their offline behaviour.

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Safety and Privacy

• Online relating is not innocuous the negative
  proves the positive.
• The blame the technology effect.
• The world can be a dangerous place online and
  offline.
• Relationship safety is the business of
  psychotherapy.

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Psychotherapy and Web 2.0
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• What would you do if a client knocked on your
  door?
• Privacy familiarize yourself with Facebooks
  privacy settings.
• Use a Company page for a professional presence.
• Use Facebook as a way to extend your offline
  personal relationships.

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• Blogging is good for you.
• But remember it is both public and published.
  The Law applies.
• Therapists write as if any of your clients are
  reading it (even though many wont.)
• Clients Reflect, observe, process. Blogging as
  mindfulness and journaling.

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• Off the Couch Blogging and Political advocacy.

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• Micro-blogging Public space.
• Again write as if everyone is reading (even
  though most arent.)
• Follow and read those who post on topics youre
  interested in.
• Enter the flow and experience Ambient Awareness.

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Transference, clients and the internet.

• Transference, clients and the internet.
• To publish, or not to publish?
• What to say, and where to say it.

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How to use for maximum benefit Suggested
guidelines.

• Facebook private and personal
• LinkedIn for professional networking.
• Blog, and encourage clients to.
• Twitter see what's being said, and see what it
  feels like to have something to say.
• Start a conversation online and see who joins in.

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The future? NZAP 2.0

• How can we connect online, with each other as
  psychotherapists?
• Geographically disparate organization
• Email is dying
• Our clients will look for us online and
  increasingly bring the online world as part of
  their relational matrix.

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Join me online!

• www.psychotherapy.org.nz
• Read my Blog Off the Couch
• Twitter.com/_at_kylemacd
• http//nz.linkedin.com/in/kylemacd
• The NZAP group on LinkedIn.