{"id":119,"date":"2018-09-19T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T18:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/?p=119"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T21:25:45","slug":"response-to-finding-u-or-not-by-dawnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/2018\/09\/response-to-finding-u-or-not-by-dawnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Finding U \u2013 Or not\u2026. by dawnES"},"content":{"rendered":"

I appreciate Dawn’s thoughtfulness regarding her lack of online presence on her blog<\/a>. Based on what Dawn wrote I seemed to find more on myself online than she was able to find on herself, however I would echo her sentiments that I have at least tried to do “a good job of creating an invisible digital identity.<\/em>” My desire has never been to be completely invisible online, however, it has been to eliminate traffic of people I have no relationship with. I was challenged however by the question Dawn followed up that statement with: “Or is that what I want\/need?<\/em>” This question made me begin to think if perhaps I would be better served to have more of an intentional online presence.<\/p>\n

For myself I think that cultivating more of an intentional online presence could help me be more effective in the ministry I do. I work primarily with youth. They often have too much of a presence online, but that is indicative of how much time they spend online. I wonder if I had more of a presence online if it would help me connect more with the demographic I am reaching out to. My default position has been that if they want to stay in touch with me they have to take the initiative to do that. I wonder though if I made myself more present, and easier to stay in touch with, if this would happen more.<\/p>\n

While I want to dive in to thinking about this more, I am also cautious. Studies have been done that have seen that social media use can contribute to higher anxiety in teenagers. That can be seen even in this abstract<\/a>: “Adolescents who used social media more \u2013 both overall and at night \u2013 and those who were more emotionally invested in social media experienced poorer sleep quality, lower self-esteem and higher levels of anxiety and depression.” This is a factor I want to consider when I think about my personal presence online. Do I set a good example for teenagers in how I conduct myself online? Not simply in what I post or what I do not post, but also in how much time I invest? Do I value real life relationships more than the relationship with my smartphone or laptop? I want to think all this through more before taking any action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I appreciate Dawn’s thoughtfulness regarding her lack of online presence on her blog. Based on what Dawn wrote I seemed to find more on myself online than she was able to find on herself, however I would echo her sentiments… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finding-u","category-twu-online","category-twu-online-responses"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/padnTM-1V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/b121\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}