What Not to Do on Social Media

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Do you misuse social media? I think we all should pause regularly to assess our habits and discern better use of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, or whatever other social media website or app we’re using. I think there are some things we should never do: 1) Don’t “hate follow” people. Are you following certain people for bad reasons? Be honest! Cut it out! 2) Don’t compare. We all are tempted to do it sometimes, but comparing yourself to others will only distract you from your unique call to holiness. 3) Don’t believe it all. Recognize that you never know the whole story about another person’s life. WhHat you see on social media is filtered and edited. 4) Don’t overshare. Talk with your kids before you post their photos or events online. Don’t share about your husband and marriage in a way that will violate his trust. Even if it’s cute or funny, or you have a great caption for it, don’t post stuff from your kids that might embarrass them, even years from now. 5) Don’t just skip it all. This one applies if you have kids. It can be scary and overwhelming to try to keep up with the latest apps and technology, but if you have kids, it is part of your job. Finally, I share a question about laundry from Sue who emailed that she is drowning in piles of clothing. I share my “system” for laundry with my kids that may help free you from the laundry beast as well!

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0:00.0	Girlfriends, episode number 126. What Not to Do on social media.
0:13.6	Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a
0:19.7	mission to help you know your worth as a woman
0:21.8	so you can find peace, balance, and joy in family living. This week, we're diving into social media
0:28.1	and the best ways not to use it. Let's get going. Hey, girlfriends, how are you? Welcome to another show. Welcome to another week. Welcome to another
0:43.3	episode of the Girlfriends Podcast. I'm so glad you have chosen to spend this time with me.
0:49.4	Thanks for being here. So connecting for another week, what's going on with you? This is a crazy time of year.
0:55.1	Those of you who have kids in school, even those of you who don't have kids in school,
0:59.1	seems like there's all the end of the year things happening. It's been a little crazy.
1:04.3	And my daughter Juliet is graduating high school this year. We're really excited. Looking forward
1:09.0	to that. She's going to be one of the speakers at graduation. So she's working on her speech and preparing for that. And I'm just having
1:16.8	memories of my son Ambrose, who spoke at his graduation a couple of years ago and how special
1:22.4	that was. So I'm really looking forward to this with Juliet. But in the meantime, we've got all these like awards things
1:29.2	and sports are ending. And there's like a big, you know, a big event for every single event that,
1:36.0	every single activity that's winding down. But you know the drill. You know this can be a crazy time
1:40.5	of year. And my two boys who are homeschooled are just champing at the bit because
1:45.1	they want summer to start and I'm not ready to do that yet. They're not ready. They're not done.
1:50.8	So continuing to be the bad mom there and push through but getting a little relaxed about some of
1:56.4	their subjects. So busy time of year and I've been busy with work as well. So between all of the
2:02.9	different things, this is my advice to all of you who might be feeling similarly stressed and
2:08.8	over-scheduled these days is take a breath. Take a breath. It's okay. It's going to be okay.
2:17.0	Take a breath and then do the next thing. That's really what I've been telling myself. That's my advice to myself these past few weeks that have been crazy and it's just going to keep getting crazy through pretty much for the next couple of weeks. Anyway, just take a breath and then do the next thing. And that's all you can do and give yourself
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