Tag: connections

  • Thoughts about being off Facebook

    Thoughts about being off Facebook

    I just read Cheri Baker’s post titled “Eight months without Facebook” that touches on my unformed thoughts about being on Facebook. When I spent a lot of time on sites like FB and Insta, I developed the habit of stereotyping people based on what they shared. I’d unconsciously tell myself that so-and-so is all about…

  • Facebook really has become the primary social space online. Stepping out of Facebook is like going on a retreat in some distant land with no link to the rest of the world.

  • “We’re a generation of smartphones and dumb people”

    “We’re a generation of smartphones and dumb people”

    One was to describe the world we live in today is as a “contradiction”. We have so many ways to connect with each other and share our lives and yet the primary ways we do that also isolate us from meaningful human contact. The instrument of our isolation is also the device we use to…

  • Send me your skilled – connecting people

    Send me your skilled – connecting people

    Now and then I know people who want to meet people. I enjoy connecting people (authentically) so I thought I’d offer to help.