Share your story
Your story can inspire change! We love videos, essays, photos* – whatever you’d like to share. We might use your story in our research, advocacy efforts, and promotional activities.
And thanks for sharing!
*If you’re interested in sharing photos to advocate for online safety, please consider joining the Becca Schmill Foundation’s photovoice for online safety initiative.
Helpful prompts to get you started:
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The Negative Effects of Screen Time & Social Media
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Being a Part of the Solution
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The Positive Effects of More Independence, Responsibility, and Free Play
- Share how smartphones & social media negatively impacted your life or the lives of your children/students.
- For Gen Z: What’s something you’ve neglected because of time spent on your phone and social media? (i.e. sleep, academics, social time, relationships?)
- For Gen Z: Can you describe a time when you wish you didn’t have a phone? What did you miss out on?
When recording, please first introduce yourself—start with your first name, age (if under 18), and where you’re from.
The Free The Anxious Generation’s
‘Share Your Story’ campaign is in partnership with...
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Let Grow
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Becca Schmill Foundation
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Accountable Tech
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Design It For Us
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HOPE Coalition
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No App For Life
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Organization for Social Media Safety
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Phone-Free Schools Movement
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Reconnect Movement
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ReThink
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Young People’s Alliance
