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Hello, Alexa, Lillian. My name is Nathaniel Mirum from AIPT Comics. My question is about social media. You had touched on it earlier
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It's a necessity nowadays, but it's pretty toxic. But, Alexa, you seem pretty comfortable with it
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How comfortable are you navigating social media? Um, so I actually just went on a whole social media rant last week
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about cyberbullying, because social media can be so good. So good. You know, you can keep in touch with people you haven't kept in touch with in a long time
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Like, I only, like, I keep in touch with all my family, like, distant family on Facebook
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Like, it's great. You know, you can market yourself and share the things that you love
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And you can form a community with people that have those same interests
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But it also can be very toxic. You know, people find this weird confidence in making other people feel bad through social media
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And I'm a big advocate on, you know, self-positivity and body positivity
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Because, you know, I was one of those people. I went through depression. I went through eating disorders
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And sometimes social media can be such a toxic thing. But I feel like you have to know your self-worth, and you can't let it get to you that much
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Because these people are only doing it to make themselves feel better
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So you can't feel bad about yourself, because the only person suffering then is you
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Because they make their little comment, and then they move on with the rest of their day. And I feel really passionately about that, because, you know, there was, I've, you see it all the time on social media as well
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People are taking their lives because of cyberbullying and any kind of bullying
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And, you know, back home, I know that there was a situation where a young kid took his life from cyberbullying
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And he was in middle school. And so I feel very passionately about speaking the truth on that
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You know, we use it for a platform. We use it to connect with you guys, which is amazing
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But some people take advantage of that. And some people try to make us feel bad about ourselves when we're just trying to reach out and make it a productive world, if that makes sense
