New Alternative to Facebook For Anxiety Sufferers

Anxiety Social Net (ASN) is a new social network that seeks to help people with anxiety disorders who worry about being exposed within larger public social networks such as Facebook

WEBWIRE – Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Anxiety Social Net is an online social networking platform that allows its members to share their experiences within the safe confines of the site itself. Many of these users suffer from a variety of disorders brought on by feelings of anxiety, and peer-to-peer discussions can help relieve them of such feelings.

Thousands of people have approached AnxietySocialNet to help them be rid of their anxiety once and for all. ASN is giving 40 million anxiety sufferers from across the United States a way to share their stories, and learn from the experiences of others like them.

The ambiguous, sometimes anonymous nature of social networks provided a buffer for people with social anxieties allowing them to express themselves without the fear of interpersonal confrontation. However, as social networks like Facebook reach near-ubiquity their scope can lead to entirely new anxieties. As opposed to a one-to-one interaction in real life, when updating your status to Facebook you are broadcasting yourself to potentially hundreds of people at once.

ASN was founded to help people move on from their anxiety issues. The site caters for all forms on anxiety, such as: social anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, agoraphobia and any other form of the disorder. Similar to Facebook, and other social networking sites, users can update their statuses regularly, chat with each other, share content and post photos.

The site follows a trend In the growing number of social networking sites targeting groups with shared interests, specifically those with health-related issues. Allowing users to come together as a community and work towards tackling any disorders they may have.