1. 21st Century Accessibility:
or how I learned to stop worrying and love social media
James Garrow
Philadelphia Department of Public Health

3. social media
social media

4. •56% of Americans have a profile on a social media
network
•22% of Americans use social networking sites
"several" times per day
•53% of Americans over 65 use the internet
• The average Facebook user spends more than 400
minutes per month on the site
• Twitter users post more than 175 million tweets
per day
• More than 24 hours of video is uploaded to
YouTube every 24 seconds

7. Kumbayah;
what about behavioral health
and intellectual disabilities?

8. Crisis

15. Routine

18. "persistent, real-time, 24/7,
crowd-sourced support network"

20. Problems will occur
Social media is no panacea

21. Questions?
about.me/jgarrow