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Default May 25, 2021 at 09:36 PM
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So, Fakebook is terrible. We all know it. The app spies on us, the company lies to us, and as a result, a plethora of other social media platforms have sprung up.

Why hasn't PsychCentral followed suit and joined social sites like MeWe and Gab?

What is the hold up? Chat is dead every single time I come on here, and everything that PC is doing on Fakebook could be done on MeWe and Gab, but better, and easier.

And don't say, chat isn't dead. It is. Sure, it may have peak hours, but those hours do not coincide with my schedule and therefore, for me, chat is no longer anything useful anymore.

Please, please, please make a MeWe or Gab page. I cannot afford psych therapy, and things are just getting worse and worse, so I'd like to be able to see the same content as on Fakebook on MeWe or Gab. It literally takes ten minutes to set up a page and then it's just copy and paste for your content that you post on Fakebook into MeWe or Gab.
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Default May 26, 2021 at 01:20 AM
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So, Fakebook is terrible. We all know it. The app spies on us, the company lies to us, and as a result, a plethora of other social media platforms have sprung up.

Why hasn't PsychCentral followed suit and joined social sites like MeWe and Gab?

What is the hold up? Chat is dead every single time I come on here, and everything that PC is doing on Fakebook could be done on MeWe and Gab, but better, and easier.

And don't say, chat isn't dead. It is. Sure, it may have peak hours, but those hours do not coincide with my schedule and therefore, for me, chat is no longer anything useful anymore.

Please, please, please make a MeWe or Gab page. I cannot afford psych therapy, and things are just getting worse and worse, so I'd like to be able to see the same content as on Fakebook on MeWe or Gab. It literally takes ten minutes to set up a page and then it's just copy and paste for your content that you post on Fakebook into MeWe or Gab.
Im guessing the reason why this site is not like facebook because its not supposed to be a facebook like site.

you will find many posts in this area that explains this is a mental health site (a place for people to talk about their mental disorders and get information on their mental disorders)

but there is a social area in this mental health forums.... here is where you can join in on any social group you are interested in and if you want to, you can start your own social group on anything you want to, you can even invite those with the same interests as you to your social group to talk about the same things you create the social group about.....

https://mysupportforums.org/groups/
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Default May 26, 2021 at 09:00 AM
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Hi Michael2Wolves. I am sorry the chat room is not well attended when you are there. I was there on weeknights EDT time and there are more people there then.

The Social Group Forums are located here https://mysupportforums.org/social-group-forums/

Another option to consider, many support groups are meeting online through zoom under different sites.
Hope you get the support you are looking for.

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Default May 26, 2021 at 07:45 PM
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Sorry, I just saw that you have an official FB page, and was hoping you'd make one for Gab or MeWe, too. Some of us avoid Fakebook for a variety of reasons. And with everything in my life coming to a head, I just don't know what I'm going to do from day to day. I realize that PC is not FB. Thank God for small favors. But I enjoyed seeing your articles and reading some of the comments, and commenting back to support someone. Just a thought. I appreciate the responses, though. I don't really do zoom, or any cameras (my laptop has tape over the camera, as does my phone). And it seems like it's a race between paranoia and ridiculous circumstances that never work out for me, so I have been going online less and less, and since coming on here is my only form of psychological therapy, I don't know what is going to happen to me, but I have a pretty good guess as to how it's going to all end.
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Default May 27, 2021 at 05:35 AM
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Thanks for the suggestion!

The forums were separated from Psych Central after its sale to Healthline in August 2020. I am no longer running Psych Central, so while I can recommend certain things to them, I can't make those things happen. Companies choose the social media platforms that generally have the widest existing reach, as building on smaller social networks (and there are literally hundreds of such alternative networks) is time-consuming and resource intensive.

I help maintain our now-independent forums with a group of volunteers. We spend our time here, on the forums, and don't really have the time or resources to try and extend the forums to third-party platforms at this time.

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