I’m so glad you made it back today!
Last week I spent a fair amount of time talking about the ideas of privacy and authenticity and the idea of what it actually means to live “publicly.” And by that I mean whether you have 100 facebook friends or 10,000 twitter followers, with new media we all live a bit in the public eye.
Today I’m calling for a linkup. Link up your most recent, your best, or your most honest post about social media and about how you feel about it. It can be an old post or a brand new one. It’s totally open.
And then when you’ve linked up, follow a few links, leave a few comments on others’ posts and hopefully we
Here are mine from last week:
A Call For Privacy on A Deeper Story
The Pressure of Living Publicly on SarahMarkley.com
Here are some questions to get you thinking:
What are we going to do about social media exhaustion? Are we going to shut down our Facebook accounts? Our blogs? Are we going to take fasts from the computer or twitter? Are we going to write mission statements or keep “office hours?”
How do we respond with grace to those people who over share? What does authenticity mean to you? How does authenticity intersect with privacy? Is it okay to be a “private” person in 2012?
How has being present on social media caused you to MISS the real-time life that is happening right now? Have you missed special moments because you were on your phone or computer?
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately, Sarah, especially in light of recent meet-ups with online friends. (I linked a post about that in your linky here) … It has made me ask some questions about online personas: How much should we share? Where’s the line between authenticity and TMI? I appreciate that you’ve opened up this discussion here, and will be seeing how you and others have responded. I also appreciated your post last week at A Deeper Story.
Warmly,
Jennifer Dukes Lee
thank you jennifer! i’m glad you’re here! and thank you so much for linking up. =)
One of my most recent post was simply an album cover from my eigth grade year. Corey Hart”Sunglasses at Night” I had previously posted some things I’m pretty sure would not have been so easily said in such a large group setting. Amongst a group of friends, yes. Just not the soap box. Since that surprise post I have run into at least one person and been avoided as a direct result of the soap box. I am usually pretty guarded, one of those times I wish I could blame it on a pitcher of margaritas. Instead, I pray for grace.
I really enjoyed reading your posts on this topic, as well as the opportunity to share in this link-up.
thank you anna!!
Sarah, Thanks for drawing attention to this topic and for hosting the linkup. I’ve been concerned about this too. Back in April, my teenage daughters asked me to write a post about social media. I’ve linked the post I wrote for them.
perfect kevin! i can’t wait to read it!!
Thanks for this post. I’ve been particularly looking for something on this subject as it relates to how to protect our children as we aim to blog/write real life. If anyone has written thoughtfully on this in particular, I’d love to be directed to it.
sure thing! i’m going to go thru all the posts tonight or sometime tomorrow and I’ll let you know if I find anything written about that =)
Thanks so much for hosting, Sarah!
I’ve been following your posts with interest. I think it’s really good to be thoughtful about the way that we engage with social media. I wrote a while ago on the debate about recording your life versus live life in the moment (well, I recorded the discussion I had with my husband about it!) http://tanyamarlow.com/life-is-for-telling/ and coincidentally I am also due to guest-post on Vicky Beeching’s blog tomorrow (weds) on this very topic…
Will be interested to read others’ takes on this – thanks for doing the link-up!
As a blogger, it’s sometimes hard to decide what to share and what not to. I touched on it a little bit in a post I did last week. About how sometimes we blog *through* something and sometimes we blog *around* something (http://sweetnicks.com/weblog/2012/09/blogging-through-pain-surviving-a-miscarriage/). Thanks for shedding more light on this topic we sometimes struggle with.