1. SOCIAL MEDIA AND
MOTIVATION
INFORMATION CULTURE – MEGAN MCKEEVER

2. MORE SPECIFICALLY…
• Fitness, Nutrition and Health Social Media sites and
applications

3. LIVESTRONG DAILY PLATE
• Livestrong has both an online site and an app to
record your food and exercise and share your
progress with friends

4. REWARDS
Participants are
rewarded with
mPoints each
time they track
an exercise or
food.
Points are tallied
and can be
redeemed for
chances to win
large prizes or
for gift
certificate.

5. COMMUNITY
• The Community features allows you
to see what others are saying and
reply to their comments.
• On Livestrong.com, you can
actually “friend” others and follow
their progress, but this isn’t
supported on the free app yet.

6. NEXERCISE
• Allows you to post daily workouts and share them
with others.
• Keeps record of all your workouts. And assigns
points per completed workout.

7. RUNKEEPER

8. CREATE A PROFILE

9. SHARE RESULTS ONLINE

10. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
• Seeing results or chatting with online friends may
increase your motivation
• Seeing posts on other platforms, such as Facebook
or Twitter, may increase interest in the app
• Competing with others may increase activity

11. OR YOU COULD TURN INTO ONE OF
THESE PEOPLE…