This unit of Health in Connected Learning has taught me a lot about social media, critical thinking, responsibility, empathy, integrity, courage and how to be an upstander. With critical thinking, I have learned a lot about how to be firm but kind. For example, I have Instagram. On Instagram on people’s stories, there is this app called Tellonym. On Tellonym your followers anonymously post a comment and you repost them onto your story. This is meant to be something to make people feel good about themselves and to make their day amazing. Instead of that, people anonymously post disgusting, rude, inappropriate and immature comments. This makes people feel bad about themselves and they don’t know who this is so it could potentially be a friend who actually just wants to cause drama and then other people could pretend to be someone else and can cause arguments and fights. This is where critical thinking comes in. There is a small amount of kind, loving and beautiful people and comments who say- “whoever is saying this trash about her stop she is beautiful and never does anything to you” and other things to make people feel better. People need to think carefully, could I be hurting someone inside? Can I make someone hurt themself? One comment can cost a life. Responsibility and respect are two very important units for me to learn about, here is why. Manners. As Mr. J says “Manners cost you nothing but get you everywhere” It very true. Manners are one simple way to be respectful. Respect is something that means a lot to me because without respect we go nowhere. In class, I learned how important it is to be responsible. Being responsible or unresponsible shows your personality, and everyone wants to be known for being a good person not for being bad or “unresponsible”. I try to be as responsible as I can every day because I try to be the best I can be. I have learned how one comment can take a life. After watching the short film about Dolly and her suicidal story. It made me think, why do people say these nasty things? How does it make them feel good as a person? Do they understand what this makes people do to themselves? In our future, I want the suicidal span to come down a whole lot more. Our world is losing kids, teenagers and adults every single day to drug use, social media and bullying. From learning about comments online and online bullying, it has changed the way I act when I’m reading comments on Instagram and socials. I used to ignore the nasty comments on others’ posts but now I want to have a say and tell the people to think before they do harm. When I’m older I understand that as adult comments are still said on posts and pages and i want to be the person who stands up for others and help them ignore the selfish rude people who say things that hurt people inside and out.