Facebook

I’ve spent the past several days off of Facebook and it has really been a mind opening experience. I hadn’t realized to the extent of how absolutely addicted I was to it. As silly as it sounds, I have felt so much pressure off of me as I’ve taken a break from it. We live in a technology driven culture and with that, there is a constant feeling I have of always know what is going on and happening. This started at first with what was going on it famous people’s lives. A few years back I became intrigued with celebrity lifestyles, not that I wanted that, I just wanted to know what was going on in them. This slowly drifted over to my Facebook friends. I’m not one of those people who are constantly on Facebook or check and update it incessantly, but I found myself having to read my entire newsfeed, figuring out what my friends had been doing since the last time I was on.  I slowly became addicted to a social media network, spending my time reading about people’s lives that I’m not even close with.  Seriously, what a waste!

Please don’t hear my say I’m deleting my Facebook page or that I think it is bad. That’s really not the case at all. (I do however want to spend my time more productively.) My problem with Facebook is this: people feel like that they need to broadcast their lives in a public display and make the small details of their lives seem like celebrity events. It’s a bit of a joke when you really stop to think about it. Last month my family found out about someone speaking poorly of us on Facebook. You should have seen us all up in shambles over something that wasn’t even spoken clearly or pointed fingers directly to us.  For a few days I was so upset by something so silly. I finally realized that it really didn’t matter. I knew in my heart that I wasn’t in the wrong and that’s what counts. There is no need for me to live my life walking on egg shells when I know that I’m living with good intentions.

So in the next few days as I transition back into social media that’s what I want to focus on. Am I spending my time wisely? Am I making my life seem more important than it actually is? Am I allowing the silly thoughts of others to affect my life? I want my life to point others to Jesus. If I can do that on Facebook, awesome. If not, what am I really doing?