{"id":5688,"date":"2010-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2010-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T00:00:00","slug":"social-media-and-allergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/social-media-and-allergies\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media for Allergy Sufferers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=justify>The new trend of interactive web communities and social media brings some wonderful opportunities for community as well as some areas to be cautious of. People suffering from a medical condition or an allergy can now communicate with others.  There is a great opportunity for brainstorming and information sharing. People can find out what treatments have been effective for others. Methods such as email groups, <a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AchooAllergy'>Facebook fan pages<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/AchooAllergy'>Twitter<\/a>, and interactive forums make this type of information sharing very accessible.<\/p>\n<p>However, here are some things to be cautious of with social media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Know who is in charge of the group. Several drug companies have come under fire for starting seeming patient support groups, but peppering them with marketing material. It<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new trend of interactive web communities and social media brings some wonderful opportunities for community as well as some areas to be cautious of. People suffering from a medical condition or an allergy can now communicate with others. There&hellip; <\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-categories\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/category\/allergy-tips\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Allergy tips<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[189],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.achooallergy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}