I love social media. I understand that they are tools to help us interact with the world around us. I use Twitter to glean information and interact with students. I use Instagram to disseminate information and see what my friends are up to. I use Facebook to keep up with students’ parents and anyone elseRead more
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I’m glad social media exist. If they didn’t, how else would I know how to feel about myself or how would I validate myself? When I post a picture on Instagram and it doesn’t get very many likes, then that’s a bad day. How could I feel good about myself if only 20 people likedRead more
I understand that 9:00 a.m. isn’t very early. Most of my friends and family are already three or four hours into their days by 9:00 a.m. For a youth pastor, though, 9:00 a.m. is pretty early in the day. Now I don’t wake up at 9:00 a.m. on my working days. Most of my workingRead more
Since I work with students I need to stay up on as many adolescent trends as possible. Snapchat’s popularity skyrocketed this year as did its potential dangers. I’m all for social media and changing technologies, but we need to be aware of how they’re influencing our behavior. Snaphack is just another social mediumRead more
A few months ago I wrote about Snapchat, an app that allows its users to send photos and videos to other users. After a set amount of time, normally a few seconds, the photos and videos disappear somewhere into cyberspace never to be viewed again. Someone learned how to hack a phone, though, and findRead more
If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram then you know that I post a lot of pictures of my dog, Elphie. Alycia and I post so many pictures of her that Alycia created the hashtag #ElphieSelfie. Some people have accused me of being obsessed with my dog. Others have threatened to unfollow me becauseRead more