Where is the line when it comes to social media privacy?
We're in the age when mostly everyone we come in contact with is involved in some sort of social media, whether that be Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr, or any other network we log into everyday. How does that merge into our careers though? Should our networking be a vital part of our work lives?
It's customary these days that employers may monitor your social networking rituals. Is that ethical? I don't understand it at all. I understand them monitoring networks, to make sure you're not "bashing" your boss, other employees, or the company, but should they really look through every bit and piece of your online life? What you do in your private life should not matter in your work place. Representing your company badly? Well, now, that's all up to who's determining that. We all have different levels of recognizing what's acceptable or unacceptable in society, according to how you were brought up. Should employers have a right to determine that and potentially refuse your employment, or worse, terminate your position due to something they may find online?
We talked about this in my class tonight and I'm NOT okay with this- some employers are now asking prospective employees to hand over their social account passwords, to Facebook and others. Despite the whole fact that this breaches the Facebook privacy terms or whatever, who in their right mind would be okay with this? Handing over your PASSWORD to someone you barely know? I'm trying to figure out what they would do with your networks. It's absurd.
Will this become a regular thing now though? The times we're in, it's only inevitable. Let's just say I'm not a fan. Okay, enough of me on my soap box.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
real
"My Princess...be real with me.
You are precious and beautiful to Me. You never need to pretend to be something other than who I made you to be. I don't want you to try to impress Me by pretending that all is perfect in your life, My love. I want you to find great freedom in being real with Me. The more real you become, the better you will relate to others. No more pretending, My princess. I love you just the way you are, and I want you to be real with Me in all you do and say. I gave My life for you so you could live free to be yourself. Don't let anyone steal your joy by turning you into something fake. Be true to yourself and be true to Me, because I love the real you.
Love,
Your True King"
You are precious and beautiful to Me. You never need to pretend to be something other than who I made you to be. I don't want you to try to impress Me by pretending that all is perfect in your life, My love. I want you to find great freedom in being real with Me. The more real you become, the better you will relate to others. No more pretending, My princess. I love you just the way you are, and I want you to be real with Me in all you do and say. I gave My life for you so you could live free to be yourself. Don't let anyone steal your joy by turning you into something fake. Be true to yourself and be true to Me, because I love the real you.
Love,
Your True King"
Saturday, March 10, 2012
liberty
Lib-er-ty (noun): a. the quality or state of being free
b. freedom from physical restraint
c. freedom from arbitrary or despotic control
We are free. Free. FREE. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, but how often do we forget it? Yes, we have freedom in our country. It's rewarding to go back and read over the Bill of Rights, on your own time, not just because you have to. Really read them. I think we abuse our freedoms a lot of the time. What would happen if those were ripped away from us? Food for thought. We forget about our freedom here in America, but think about how often we forget about our greater freedom we have in Christ... it's humbling to really sit down and think about it. Soak it in. We are free. Completely. We aren't "restrained."
Liberty, by Shane & Shane
The Lord is, the Spirit
where the Spirit of the Lord is now
there is liberty
and the Spirit, lives inside of me
and where the Spirit of the Lord is now
there is liberty
For freedom you’ve set me free
and yes I am free indeed
You rewrote my name
unshackled my shame
you opened my eyes to see
that I am free
When the spirit of the world comes
to kill me and enslave me I will say
there is liberty
for the chains of sin
that once entangled me
have been broken now I'm singing cause I’m free
there is liberty
The storm rolled in
it was dark in the land
as the Son of man was crucified
You don’t take His life
He laid it down
and He paid the price
and shed His blood
It is done
The veil is torn
He has won
and I am free
For freedom you’ve set me free
and yes I am free indeed
You rewrote my name
unshackled my shame
you opened my eyes to see
that I am free
b. freedom from physical restraint
c. freedom from arbitrary or despotic control
We are free. Free. FREE. It's not a difficult concept to grasp, but how often do we forget it? Yes, we have freedom in our country. It's rewarding to go back and read over the Bill of Rights, on your own time, not just because you have to. Really read them. I think we abuse our freedoms a lot of the time. What would happen if those were ripped away from us? Food for thought. We forget about our freedom here in America, but think about how often we forget about our greater freedom we have in Christ... it's humbling to really sit down and think about it. Soak it in. We are free. Completely. We aren't "restrained."
"For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
2 Corinthians 3:17
"And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death."
Romans 8:2
Liberty, by Shane & Shane
The Lord is, the Spirit
where the Spirit of the Lord is now
there is liberty
and the Spirit, lives inside of me
and where the Spirit of the Lord is now
there is liberty
For freedom you’ve set me free
and yes I am free indeed
You rewrote my name
unshackled my shame
you opened my eyes to see
that I am free
When the spirit of the world comes
to kill me and enslave me I will say
there is liberty
for the chains of sin
that once entangled me
have been broken now I'm singing cause I’m free
there is liberty
The storm rolled in
it was dark in the land
as the Son of man was crucified
You don’t take His life
He laid it down
and He paid the price
and shed His blood
It is done
The veil is torn
He has won
and I am free
For freedom you’ve set me free
and yes I am free indeed
You rewrote my name
unshackled my shame
you opened my eyes to see
that I am free
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
one step at a time
Devotionals.
You know. Those short, inspiring tidbits we read on a daily basis that encourage us.
I'm sure I'm not the first person in the world to sometimes shrug off the thought of reading a daily devotional, solely on the reason of that they get repetitive and all of them can sometimes be vague. I sometimes get in that "Well, this doesn't apply to me, let's move on" mindset. WRONG. You can probably see that I've never been a fan of devotionals. That is, until the past year.
I justified my "disliking" of devotionals with the excuse of that I never found ones that were for me. No. The problem was that I wasn't reading them with the intent of communicating with the Lord, and actually, soaking in the real message in them. I wasn't seeking God during my time with Him, during them. I was doing them to fulfill an obligation. Rule number one of quiet time- Don't feel obligated to spend time with God. Don't feel guilty. DO IT BECAUSE YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH HIM. Seek Him in everything. I've always struggled with quiet time... And in that "quiet" time, I've learned to truly be quiet with Him. To listen. To be still and know, that He is God. It's only taken me years... I'm sure I'm the most distracted person on this earth.
In July 2007, the month my Gramps passed away, I was given a devotional written by Oswald Chambers, by my youth minister and his wife. I didn't know at the time, but that simple, little book would be a great impact on my life in the following years. The ways God has spoken through that paragraph each day are astounding. It's not a vague devotional. It hits hard, and I am beyond thankful for the time that I read it everyday, in my walk with Christ.
I had to share today's, because it meant so much. I've read it about a thousand times throughout the whole day. It's like it was written just for Taylor Hamm. The timing...
3/6- Taking the Next Step
"In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind." 2 Corinthians 6:4
"When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your life, and no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of Almighty God to take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the reading and studying of His Word, in your family life, or in your duty to Him. It takes much more of the grace of God, and a much greater awareness of drawing upon Him, to take that next step, than it does to preach the gospel.
Every Christian must experience the essence of the incarnation by bringing the next step down into flesh-and-blood reality and by working it out with his hands. We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks. The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to discourage you. Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1-7."
You know. Those short, inspiring tidbits we read on a daily basis that encourage us.
I'm sure I'm not the first person in the world to sometimes shrug off the thought of reading a daily devotional, solely on the reason of that they get repetitive and all of them can sometimes be vague. I sometimes get in that "Well, this doesn't apply to me, let's move on" mindset. WRONG. You can probably see that I've never been a fan of devotionals. That is, until the past year.
I justified my "disliking" of devotionals with the excuse of that I never found ones that were for me. No. The problem was that I wasn't reading them with the intent of communicating with the Lord, and actually, soaking in the real message in them. I wasn't seeking God during my time with Him, during them. I was doing them to fulfill an obligation. Rule number one of quiet time- Don't feel obligated to spend time with God. Don't feel guilty. DO IT BECAUSE YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH HIM. Seek Him in everything. I've always struggled with quiet time... And in that "quiet" time, I've learned to truly be quiet with Him. To listen. To be still and know, that He is God. It's only taken me years... I'm sure I'm the most distracted person on this earth.
In July 2007, the month my Gramps passed away, I was given a devotional written by Oswald Chambers, by my youth minister and his wife. I didn't know at the time, but that simple, little book would be a great impact on my life in the following years. The ways God has spoken through that paragraph each day are astounding. It's not a vague devotional. It hits hard, and I am beyond thankful for the time that I read it everyday, in my walk with Christ.
I had to share today's, because it meant so much. I've read it about a thousand times throughout the whole day. It's like it was written just for Taylor Hamm. The timing...
3/6- Taking the Next Step
"In everything we do, we show that we are true ministers of God. We patiently endure troubles and hardships and calamities of every kind." 2 Corinthians 6:4
"When you have no vision from God, no enthusiasm left in your life, and no one watching and encouraging you, it requires the grace of Almighty God to take the next step in your devotion to Him, in the reading and studying of His Word, in your family life, or in your duty to Him. It takes much more of the grace of God, and a much greater awareness of drawing upon Him, to take that next step, than it does to preach the gospel.
Every Christian must experience the essence of the incarnation by bringing the next step down into flesh-and-blood reality and by working it out with his hands. We lose interest and give up when we have no vision, no encouragement, and no improvement, but only experience our everyday life with its trivial tasks. The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others. And the only way to live an undefeated life is to live looking to God. Ask God to keep the eyes of your spirit open to the risen Christ, and it will be impossible for drudgery to discourage you. Never allow yourself to think that some tasks are beneath your dignity or too insignificant for you to do, and remind yourself of the example of Christ in John 13:1-7."
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