I want to learn how to play the cello one day. The great Antonin Dvorak has inspired me to do so. Well, for right now anyways. Sweet, sweet cello concertos. Music history test in the a.m. Can you feel me?
In other news, what does social media mean to you? And what do you think social media includes? What's the purpose of it all? Calm down, I'm not going off about the purpose of my blog again. This past weekend, I went to Montgomery with around twenty people for a collegiate evangelism conference (amazing by the way) and we picked two breakout sessions to go to, and of course, I picked the Social Media and the Gospel one. Uh, it was grrreat. It really got me thinking. I've thought about this before, but haven't really seriously thought that much into it. How consumed are we with social media? Facebook, Twitter, THIS BLOG, YouTube, Google+, Pinterest, anything and everything that connects with people... think about it. How much time do you spend on one of those each and every day? I won't answer that for you, because you and I both know it's a sad amount of time. The speaker in the session brought up an interesting point, which then rotated around the big theme of the weekend- bringing glory to God. Do our social media habits, in fact, bring any type of glory to God? Do we think about that when we post a status, a picture, or tweet every five minutes? I don't most of the time. I will be honest in saying that. I think our main issue with social media, because of the fact it deals with so many people, is pride. Be real with me for a few seconds. Aren't there those times where you post something and you just have to monitor it all the time to see how many "likes", "retweets", or replies you may get? You know I'm right. I'm guilty of this too. And the fact that we constantly have to inform the world about our every move, or anything that ever happens to us, can always come back to pride and that we enjoy attention. We want people to pay attention and "praise" us for our actions or thoughts. Oh, and you can't forget how distracting all of the social media can be... I could go on and on.
At the end of the social media breakout session, we were asked to write down a tweet, as if it were going to be our last. That's an exercise, let me tell you. What would YOU tweet, if you knew it was going to the be the last thing that would pop up on someone's feed from you? Food for thought.
