Hey all, I'm Nathan, and I'm Alumni from the Young and Well CRC's Youth Brains Trust 🙂

I have to agree with the comments that have been made that people are usually much more likely to say something on social media than they are in real life to a person. However, given that some people we are friends with on social media may live in a pretty distant place, it can sometimes be hard for us to get them help simply because we don't know how to get urgent messages to the appoprite people in other countries and even other states.

Facebook is one I've seen quite a few statuses on - however I know these people from school and was able to summon them help pretty quickly. However, unlike real life as well, social media does operate 24 hours a day, and it can be hard to notice something if someone makes a status at 2:00am, which is one challange that may need to be addressed.

Edit: I have seen a couple of statuses of the nature on Facebook in the past.

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