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Marie
Member

The way in which media is used will have an impact on how people respond to it. For people who do not fully understand the advantages of social media the idea will not be so welcoming. A lot of advocacy needs to go into how social media is going to be used and for which target population. How accessible it is to the majority. And what our are limitations in information sharing on social media? The common denominator in all of these issues is dialogue. It doesn’t matter what form of dialogue we use, ( depending on our setting) but it has to be incorporated. Hence the importance of maintaining stakeholder partnerships at all times. Inclusion of adolescents when developing training tools is very popular at our site because they come up with the most creative ideas and comics that are user friendly even to the adult population. We therefore appreciate and value the fact that they too play a very important role in our research. I have mentioned this before and i am saying it again-there is still a lot of ethical issues around social media that we need to address. And this can be done through education.