Posted by Melissa Thompson

You can blame social media for a lot of things. You can blame it for misinformation. You can blame it for distraction and strife and stress. But you can also use social media to your advantage. And especially if you’re trying to determine positive health and wellness options, you can decide how to filter out the wrong information from the good.

Several examples will illustrate how these benefits can specifically pertain to you. First of all, you can look to social media for fitness advice. In the past, there have been gatekeepers to positive information about natural ways to stay healthy and fit. Now, social media points you to the proper places. Second, you can use social media to find out options for taking care of friends and family.

You can see the pathways that other people have taken and choose the best one for yourself. Third, you can crowdsource health options. People’s honest and genuine opinions and advice go a long way via word-of-mouth pathways on various social media platforms.

Fitness Advice

Have you ever scrolled around the Internet looking for websites to give you information about good fitness advice? You can run into what seems like a whole lot of advertising and promotions with very little data to back it up. However, if you look at social media for fitness advice, you might find some more realistic explanations and expectations. Because individual actors tend to be more genuine with the reviews, you can join social media fitness platforms and get great advice from people who are in a similar situation to you.

Taking Care of Friends and Family

You can also use social media as a way to connect with people who can tell you how to care for your family members. For example, in certain groups, you might be able to find out that there are programs that pay you to take care of family members. It might have been more difficult for you to find this information out on the Internet without personal stories attached to the descriptions. You can also find people online who have utilized programs like this for themselves, and you can connect with them directly.

Crowdsourcing Health Options

It isn’t very easy these days to figure out what healthy habits you should be participating in. There is so much information and disinformation on the Internet that it can feel overwhelming to try and filter it out. However, if you find discussions online and social media platforms, you can feel like you’re talking to real people about real topics. In this way, you can crowdsource anecdotal information about different health options, and that will give you a much better basis to start asking questions of your own.