What Social Media Use Says About Us
My wife is so smart. A few weeks I wrote a post about how young people are currently using social...
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Tag: Social Media
Are you up on your social media?
Congratulations, you’re finally on facebook. Unfortunately, now that you’re settled,...
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Teens, tweens and social media addiction
A few months ago I read an article in Wired magazine that was quite shocking. The article is based on a book, “It’s complicated, the social lives of networked teens” by Danah Boyd. We all know that teenagers are overly connected to their electronic devices. Between twitter, instagram, snapchat and texting, they seem to always be glued to their devices. We’d even go so far to say that they’re addicted to their devices.
However, that’s not the view of this book/article. They suggest that teens/tweens aren’t addicted to their social devices, they’re addicted to each other. They spend so much time on social media because they usually don’t have any other way to connect. The suggestion is that if parents gave their kids more freedom, kids would be less connected to their social devices. It’s an interesting idea and worth exploring. More than ever, we’re more protective of our kids and we have them busier that any generation before. What if our kids had more time and more freedom to be together?
Check out the full article here.
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This April I’ll be attending my 5th Orange Conference and I must say that I’m very excited. Last year was an incredibly experience from connecting with some of my favorite people, learning from some of the greatest...
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In the last three days I came across two fun but touching videos about the birth of Christ as told through social media. What if Joseph was on facebook? What if the shepherds were twitter addicts?...
Read MoreBackup your social media with Backupify
I just learned about Backupify. I haven’t even had enough time to review it (just signed up for an account this week). Essentially, backupify will create a backup of most of the social media you’ve got floating...
Read MoreMore social media factoids
A few months ago I posted this video about the power of social media. Then a few weeks ago I found the video below from David Wakerly’s blog. I’m probably just preaching to the choir here, but this social media thing...
Read MoreFacebook pages and twitter
Over the past year I’ve loved the integration of twitter in facebook. I can update my facebook status from twitter which is BEAUTIFUL. Having this same feature for facebook page would be equally awesome. However,...
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Read MoreHow my ministry team works
Yesterday I introduced you to my ministry team. We were invited to teach a lunch session at Orange about collaboration. I think the five of us all had some great things to say about collaboration, but more than that we just told...
Read MoreOrange Brown Bag Lunch
Don’t forget the Orange Brown Bag lunches on Thursday and Friday. On Thursday John Saddington will be teaching about blogging and social media and on Friday, a handful of Children’s Pastors will be teaching about...
Read MoreOrange Blogger Brown Bag Lunches
Hey people. Something you may not have known about yet. On Thursday and Friday of next week, several bloggers will be hosting brown bag lunches. It’s an opportunity to network and learn more about blogging, social media...
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