Tag Archives: Social Media

PRACTICE GRATITUDE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Social media can be a harsh place from time to time.  All you have to do is share an opinion on any topic, and it’s as if the social media gods send an emergency alert to every person that disagrees with you.  You can post something and go to lunch, go out for the evening, or turn in for bed, and then come back to your phone or computer and BAM!  A firestorm has erupted.

Social media does not have to be defined by the broadcasting of opinions and defending them.  Whether they are yours or belong to someone else.  Social media can actually be a great way to reach out and deepen relationships. Continue reading →

IS FACEBOOK SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF YOU

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I hear more and more people bemoaning the negativity that seems to permeate social media these days.  I can’t speak of your newsfeed, but on mine, I see posts weekly from individuals that threaten to delete Facebook from their phones or from their life.  In fact, I have felt this way myself in the past, but all that changed this past Easter.

A Social Media Fast

For Easter, our church observes Lent, although not in the traditional sense.  We ask folks to abstain, for 40 days, from things in their life that have become a distraction to their spiritual journey.  For me, this was obviously social media.  In particularly Facebook. Continue reading →