Coaching practices for Customers Take Issue with Employee's Social Media Posts

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  • There are certain accounts I follow that leave me feeling small and behind every single time their posts show up, and yet I keep scrolling past them
  • It’s the endless passive scrolling through other people’s lives that leaves me hollow and envious
  • There are a handful of accounts I can name that leave me feeling small every single time, and I keep following them anyway
  • I’ve told my people a hundred times they can disagree with me, but they still don’t
  • I tell myself I’m staying connected, but really I just scroll and watch for an hour without ever talking to a single person

Practices that may help

  1. Conduct a quarterly unfollow audit
    Every three months, unfollow or mute any account that consistently produces comparison, envy, or resentment.
    The 2-Hour Social Media Cap
  2. Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
    Research by Vogel, Rose, and colleagues finds that passive social media use drives upward social comparison — comparing yourself unfavorably to curated, idealized profiles — and consistently reduces self-evaluations and mood. Active, direct engagement has weaker negative effects. The most effective interventions reduce passive consumption and build awareness of the comparison mechanism.
  3. Replace passive scrolling with active, intentional social media use
    Use social media to create, connect, and respond — not to scroll.
    The 2-Hour Social Media Cap
  4. Curate your feed to reduce highly idealized and celebrity accounts
    Unfollow or mute accounts whose posts consistently leave you feeling worse about yourself.
    Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
  5. Teach speak-up skills, not just encourage speaking up
    Give team members specific language for raising concerns, not just permission to raise them.
    Psychological Safety in Teams
  6. Distinguish passive from active social media use
    Scrolling and watching (passive) consistently harms wellbeing more than direct messaging and commenting (active).
    Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
  7. Practice deliberate curation awareness — remind yourself of what you are not seeing
    When you notice comparison, recall explicitly that you are seeing a highlight reel, not a life.
    Social Comparison Online: What the Research Actually Shows
  8. Distinguish between content consumption and genuine connection
    Reserve platform use for genuine social interaction and ruthlessly cut pure content consumption.
    The Attention Economy: Reclaiming Your Focus from Systems Designed to Capture It
  9. Make feedback specific and behavioral, not evaluative
    Describe what you observed, not what it says about the person.
    The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
  10. Restrict social media to scheduled daily access windows
    Limit social media to one or two daily slots rather than allowing it to run as a background tab.
    Notification Batching: Taking Back Control of Your Attention

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