Since I have written on it numerous times, it would be hard for the simplification of my social media not to make the top 10 of 2011 list. Back in November, I read the following quotes from the Vitamin Z blog that quoted John Dyer’s book “From the Garden to the City: The Redeeming and Corrupting Power of Technology” and knew that I was making changes that were healthy for me personally:
“When technology has distracted us to the point that we no longer examine it, it gains the greatest opportunity to enslave us.”
“We use our idols fundamentally as a way of meeting our needs apart from God, and this is our greatest temptation with technology—to use it as a substitute for God.”
I started off 2011 as a user of Twitter, Facebook (where I had a personal profile, along with a page for my blog and for Joe) 2 blogs, Good Reads and added in Instagram during the year. Throughout the year I slowly started pruning myself away from social media, first by simplifying the things I was using and then by disengaging from various platforms of social media.
Again, this in no way means I have set the correct path everyone should follow, but it was such a good year for me for really thinking through why I interacted with the social media in the way that I did. And from that thinking came changes and those changes brought better core relationships, a more productive use of my time and an overall freedom from many of the sinful struggles I saw residing in my heart. And for me that is a very significant change that I am thankful came in 2011.















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