Social Media breakdown

My dad posted this video recently and it is so profound and sadly so true. Real relationships don't come out of liking a photo and making a comment on a social media site. Real community and relationships come out of sitting face to face, sharing meals, going through the trials of life together, laughing and having inside jokes, and doing life together, not via the internet.

The video is something that we need to acknowledge and dialogue about.



This month marks two years that Junior and I have lived in our house here in Brunswick. Most days it feels like this has been our home for way more than a couple years, but every once in awhile when I look at my dream list of things we want to do in the house I remember it hasn't been that long.

When we first moved into our house in Brunswick, I really struggled to find deep relationships, and community. I had tons of friends in my social networking world, but I didn't feel like I had a strong community that I was taking part in like when I first moved to Georgia. However, once I started investing in a few girl friends, sitting with them face to face, being vulnerable with one another and doing life together things changed. My pastor's wife also started a young married women's group and since then more and more this place feels like home.

In our world today it's easy to feel like we have community with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, you name it...we have a social network for it. I often debate staying on Facebook and if it wasn't for living far away from my family and my shop online I don't know that I myself would stay on it. But I can handle taking part in social media, because I know that those online places don't hold my true community.

My true community is with my friends and family, the people I do life with, that have seen me through ups and downs. They talk with me face to face on a regular basis and tell me they love me, not via the web, but via life, in present time, whether over the phone or at a coffee shop. I am blessed, that I have this and loneliness is not part of my life. I have deep relationships I can call upon whenever I am in need.

What has social media done though for those that don't have true community and deep relationships they can call upon in their time of need...