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Chapter 11 Weaving Your Way through the Web
By: Birdie Date: July 10, 2018, 6:16 am
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Hello Book Club Peeps,
Hope your week is starting off well. I know that this book club
has been a struggle to keep up with since it's summertime and we
are all busy with our schedules, but I hope you all find some
quick quiet-time to get some of the reading in this week! This
Chapter is all about social media and how we deal with it in our
lives. I think we all can relate to this chapter. Because this
book is older, it doesn't include all the updated social media
out there, but I think the videos offer some really good advice.
1. How do you balance your life with social media?
2. How do you use social media in your life?
3. Do you let your children use social media and if so, do you
have limitations/rules?
4. What was the most important thing you took away from the
chapter/videos?
Hope everyone has an awesome week!
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Re: Chapter 11 Weaving Your Way through the Web
By: MommaAshley Date: July 12, 2018, 3:14 pm
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Oooo I'm the first one on this post!!!
I can pretend like I am all caught up, lol!
1. How do you balance your life with social media?
First, how sad is this question? I don't mean that in the sense
that your question is sad, but that we have to sit and think
about how much time we invest in the internet. I personally feel
like I waste a lot of time on social media. I don't let it come
in the way of my responsibilities, but I could be doing
something else. For instance, when I'm nursing Ruby. I have to
stay put, so I whip out my phone and scroll. I nurse her 8-10
times a day...up to 15 minutes, that's a lot of time. However,
on the flip side, I use social media to boost my photography
business. 95% of my business is from connections through social
media. Very few are from outside sources.
2. How do you use social media in your life?
I sort of answered this one in question one, but I use it to
stay in touch and for my business. Since I moved away from the
place I grew up, I am not able to see my childhood friends.
Social media has allowed me to stay in touch, see their family
and share our lives together. It also helps to find out about
fun events going on in my area and connect with local moms. I
use Facebook for my photography business, it has helped a lot
over the last 12 months.
3. Do you let your children use social media and if so, do you
have limitations/rules?
My older two kids are on Instagram. We are friends, so we see
what they post. Their account is private, however, this doesn't
stop random people from requesting them or messaging them. We
have taught them to ignore requests from strangers and to be
mindful of what they post. Never where they are, just the
picture. I personally think my kids need some sort of exposure
to the internet and social media. They need to learn what it is
and how it can be useful, but also how it can be dangerous.
Completely shielding them from social media doesn't really help
to educate them. Growing up in a time where social media didn't
exist really allows for me to see both sides. I am thankful that
I never had to deal with bullying via the internet, (mind you,
bullying still happens, just in different forms) and it's sad to
read stories of children who are affected by it.
4. What was the most important thing you took away from the
chapter/videos?
I confess that I did not read this chapter.
My apologies.
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Re: Chapter 11 Weaving Your Way through the Web
By: Birdie Date: July 14, 2018, 9:18 am
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Hi guys - sorry late with my posting!!
How do you balance your life with social media?
I think I have a good balance using social media. I’m not one
to constantly have my phone with me and respond to text, insta,
snapchat… I’ve actually just started using social media
recently and it’s just to stay connected to my family since we
are all over the place right now. I think it’s a great way to
keep in touch and know what is happening in the moment. I
remember back when I was young you had to take polaroid pics and
send them in the mail. Family that didn’t live close missed out
on a lot of stuff ☹ But, I think it’s important to balance
your social media use and not let it take over your life or
interfere with your family.
How do you use social media in your life?
Like I said above, I use social media to stay connected to my
family and have the opportunity to see “in the moment”
happenings! I love sharing pics, videos, using facetime and
just seeing the funny comments! I also love Giffy’s – they are
the best!! The one thing I don’t like about social media, and I
try to make sure I don’t fall into it, is being fake! I had a
facebook years back and I saw a lot of people from high school
and felt that not everyone was being real! If you are not
careful you can judge yourself against other people’s facebook
postings, pictures, etc. I have a couple of Instagram / blogs
that I follow and I have found myself comparing my life to
theirs – which is not good. So, I have made a conscience effort
to realize that they choose what they post so I’m not seeing
everything that happens in their life!
Do you let your children use social medial and if so do you have
limitations/rules?
I have no control over what my kids do – haha!!! But if they
were young I would be very concerned and worried about them
getting caught up in social media. I would worry about them
comparing themselves to others and/or finding things they don’t
need to be seeing! I would hate for them to compare themselves
to the Kardarsians 😊
What was the most important thing you took away from this
chapter/vidoes?
I think there are really good sites you can go to and find
interesting information whether it’s for recipes, decorating,
religion, education… So, I think this part of social media can
be a good part of your life but I realize there are also dangers
that come along with the good. So, as long as you are aware of
those dangers and keep yourself in check you can enjoy the gifts
of social media!
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Re: Chapter 11 Weaving Your Way through the Web
By: Birdie Date: July 14, 2018, 9:22 am
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[quote author=MommaAshley link=topic=12.msg91#msg91
date=1531426465]
Oooo I'm the first one on this post!!!
I can pretend like I am all caught up, lol!
1. How do you balance your life with social media?
First, how sad is this question? I don't mean that in the sense
that your question is sad, but that we have to sit and think
about how much time we invest in the internet. I personally feel
like I waste a lot of time on social media. I don't let it come
in the way of my responsibilities, but I could be doing
something else. For instance, when I'm nursing Ruby. I have to
stay put, so I whip out my phone and scroll. I nurse her 8-10
times a day...up to 15 minutes, that's a lot of time. However,
on the flip side, I use social media to boost my photography
business. 95% of my business is from connections through social
media. Very few are from outside sources.
2. How do you use social media in your life?
I sort of answered this one in question one, but I use it to
stay in touch and for my business. Since I moved away from the
place I grew up, I am not able to see my childhood friends.
Social media has allowed me to stay in touch, see their family
and share our lives together. It also helps to find out about
fun events going on in my area and connect with local moms. I
use Facebook for my photography business, it has helped a lot
over the last 12 months.
3. Do you let your children use social media and if so, do you
have limitations/rules?
My older two kids are on Instagram. We are friends, so we see
what they post. Their account is private, however, this doesn't
stop random people from requesting them or messaging them. We
have taught them to ignore requests from strangers and to be
mindful of what they post. Never where they are, just the
picture. I personally think my kids need some sort of exposure
to the internet and social media. They need to learn what it is
and how it can be useful, but also how it can be dangerous.
Completely shielding them from social media doesn't really help
to educate them. Growing up in a time where social media didn't
exist really allows for me to see both sides. I am thankful that
I never had to deal with bullying via the internet, (mind you,
bullying still happens, just in different forms) and it's sad to
read stories of children who are affected by it.
4. What was the most important thing you took away from the
chapter/videos?
I confess that I did not read this chapter.
My apologies.
[/quote]
OMG you posted without reading the chapter!!! JK:) Love your
post! And I agree that social media can really help with
promoting your business! I forgot about that aspect of using
social media. I have read stories on how companies have grown
by just using social media and they don't have to pay for ads
and stuff.
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Re: Chapter 11 Weaving Your Way through the Web
By: Jday1106 Date: July 16, 2018, 5:47 pm
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Oh goodness, it took me forever to realize that I wasn't logged
in. I was on this page and able to read everything but I was
looking everywhere for how to reply to the postings and finally
I realized, there isn't a reply tab because I'm not logged in.
G's!
Alright so chapter 11 I didn't enjoy at all, as yall all know I
am not into social media at all. I will say that the internet I
find extremely useful and would die without it. I love being
able to access the internet to look stuff up that I'm interested
in. I just recently got into youtube and I love being able to
get on it and search stuff on different topics I'm interested
in. However when I think of social media what comes to my mind
is facebook, Instagram, snapchat, and whatever else is popular
right now that I'm not aware of. Social media is something I
personally choose not to participate in, I don't look negatively
on other people that use it, it's just my personal chose, and I
feel good knowing it's not something that consumes me that
unfortunately for a lot of other people it does.
The biggest reason I choose not to participate in social media
is because like I said earlier, I feel like it consumes peoples'
lives. So many people I encounter are obsessed with it, they are
constantly on their phone checking their social media sights. I
also feel like it causes people to become obsessed with their
persona. People want to take a million selfies or pictures in
general to post on their sights to get their friends/followers
attention. So many young girls who are brought up with social
media are posting, let's be honest, slutty pictures of
themselves. It's embarrassing! They do this to get guy's
attention or to make other girls jealous. This is the type of
behavior I don't want to participate in. I also don't like how
people want to post every little part of their day to all their
friends/followers. I find it sad that people feel the need to do
this. I'm not going to sit down in the morning with a cup of
coffee and book and take a selfie and post it updating everyone
on what I'm doing and I don't know if this is still popular but
putting my location out there so people know where I am (YIKES
who came up with that, honestly why would anyone post their
location, HELLO don't you know there are psychos out there who
might stalk you and track you down). I'm also a very private
person and don't want people stalking me. I feel like when you
have social media so many people want to be "your friend" but
they aren't really your friend, they just want to see what
you're up to, and let's be honest you just accept to be their
friend because you want to know what they're up to. This is also
a big reason I don't want to participate because I would get
addicted to looking people up and stalking them and I don't want
to waste my day doing that so I make sure it's not something I'm
susceptible to.
I feel so free knowing that I'm completely ignorant of the
drama that is going on on people's social media sights. No one
knows what I'm up to and I don't have to worry about what they
are thinking about me, and I don't have to worry about what
people are posting! Our neighborhood has a facebook page and
there is always so much gossip and drama. I am SO glad I am
ignorant to it all. It is so sad to think that so many of these
people, actually ALL of these people are older then me and they
just sit around on their facebook pages posting so much crap.
I'm thinking really? Do you not have anything better to do?
A flip side to social media that pretty much everyone will tell
you for their reasoning behind why they have a social media
sight is because they have it to keep in contact with certain
people (family, friends, whatever). I have no trouble keeping in
contact with the people I choose to keep in contact with. If you
have a smartphone you can keep in touch with anyone, it's called
get their phone number. You can text message, talk on the phone,
send pictures, email, it's no harder to do this then use social
media. I love communicating this way because I get to choose who
has my phone number, as opposed to social media, anyone can look
you up, and yes you can make your page private but they can
still find you and ask to be your friend.
So as of right now, social media is not for me. I feel adequate
keeping in touch with people via my cell phone. I think social
media is more so negative then positive and I feel like it can
be extremely addictive for most people. I know that if I had one
it would become addicting for me, I also know that if I had one
I would start worrying about stupid stuff like how I am
portraying myself and what people are thinking about me. I would
also get drug into people's drama.
Side note, hope I didn't offend anyone on my views of social
media, I know yall all have one. I think as long as you don't
get caught up in the negative aspects of it then it's fine to
have. For me I just rather be safe then sorry so choose not to
paticipate. I think if I had a business though I would
definitely get one because it is a great way to reach out to
people and find cliental.
#Post#: 106--------------------------------------------------
Re: Chapter 11 Weaving Your Way through the Web
By: Birdie Date: July 19, 2018, 6:21 pm
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[quote author=Jday1106 link=topic=12.msg100#msg100
date=1531781220]
Oh goodness, it took me forever to realize that I wasn't logged
in. I was on this page and able to read everything but I was
looking everywhere for how to reply to the postings and finally
I realized, there isn't a reply tab because I'm not logged in.
G's!
Alright so chapter 11 I didn't enjoy at all, as yall all know I
am not into social media at all. I will say that the internet I
find extremely useful and would die without it. I love being
able to access the internet to look stuff up that I'm interested
in. I just recently got into youtube and I love being able to
get on it and search stuff on different topics I'm interested
in. However when I think of social media what comes to my mind
is facebook, Instagram, snapchat, and whatever else is popular
right now that I'm not aware of. Social media is something I
personally choose not to participate in, I don't look negatively
on other people that use it, it's just my personal chose, and I
feel good knowing it's not something that consumes me that
unfortunately for a lot of other people it does.
The biggest reason I choose not to participate in social media
is because like I said earlier, I feel like it consumes peoples'
lives. So many people I encounter are obsessed with it, they are
constantly on their phone checking their social media sights. I
also feel like it causes people to become obsessed with their
persona. People want to take a million selfies or pictures in
general to post on their sights to get their friends/followers
attention. So many young girls who are brought up with social
media are posting, let's be honest, slutty pictures of
themselves. It's embarrassing! They do this to get guy's
attention or to make other girls jealous. This is the type of
behavior I don't want to participate in. I also don't like how
people want to post every little part of their day to all their
friends/followers. I find it sad that people feel the need to do
this. I'm not going to sit down in the morning with a cup of
coffee and book and take a selfie and post it updating everyone
on what I'm doing and I don't know if this is still popular but
putting my location out there so people know where I am (YIKES
who came up with that, honestly why would anyone post their
location, HELLO don't you know there are psychos out there who
might stalk you and track you down). I'm also a very private
person and don't want people stalking me. I feel like when you
have social media so many people want to be "your friend" but
they aren't really your friend, they just want to see what
you're up to, and let's be honest you just accept to be their
friend because you want to know what they're up to. This is also
a big reason I don't want to participate because I would get
addicted to looking people up and stalking them and I don't want
to waste my day doing that so I make sure it's not something I'm
susceptible to.
I feel so free knowing that I'm completely ignorant of the
drama that is going on on people's social media sights. No one
knows what I'm up to and I don't have to worry about what they
are thinking about me, and I don't have to worry about what
people are posting! Our neighborhood has a facebook page and
there is always so much gossip and drama. I am SO glad I am
ignorant to it all. It is so sad to think that so many of these
people, actually ALL of these people are older then me and they
just sit around on their facebook pages posting so much crap.
I'm thinking really? Do you not have anything better to do?
A flip side to social media that pretty much everyone will tell
you for their reasoning behind why they have a social media
sight is because they have it to keep in contact with certain
people (family, friends, whatever). I have no trouble keeping in
contact with the people I choose to keep in contact with. If you
have a smartphone you can keep in touch with anyone, it's called
get their phone number. You can text message, talk on the phone,
send pictures, email, it's no harder to do this then use social
media. I love communicating this way because I get to choose who
has my phone number, as opposed to social media, anyone can look
you up, and yes you can make your page private but they can
still find you and ask to be your friend.
So as of right now, social media is not for me. I feel adequate
keeping in touch with people via my cell phone. I think social
media is more so negative then positive and I feel like it can
be extremely addictive for most people. I know that if I had one
it would become addicting for me, I also know that if I had one
I would start worrying about stupid stuff like how I am
portraying myself and what people are thinking about me. I would
also get drug into people's drama.
Side note, hope I didn't offend anyone on my views of social
media, I know yall all have one. I think as long as you don't
get caught up in the negative aspects of it then it's fine to
have. For me I just rather be safe then sorry so choose not to
paticipate. I think if I had a business though I would
definitely get one because it is a great way to reach out to
people and find cliental.
[/quote]
Great post Jen! Social media isn't for everyone and I agree
that a lot of people spend way too much time on their phones.
It can be a good thing, but also a bad thing if you let it. We
do miss that you are not able to share in our insta and snapchat
fun :)
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