James Garrow Philadelphia Department of Public Health

21st Century Accessibility: or how I learned to stop worrying and love social media

social media

social media

•56% of Americans have a profile on a social media network

•22% of Americans use social networking sites "several" times per day

•53% of Americans over 65 use the internet

•The average Facebook user spends more than 400 minutes per month on the site

•Twitter users post more than 175 million tweets per day

•More than 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every 24 seconds

Kumbayah; what about behavioral health and intellectual disabilities?

Crisis

Routine

"persistent, real-time, 24/7, crowd-sourced support network"

Problems will occur Social media is no panacea

Questions?

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