Comments on: Time Management and Social Media: An Oxymoron?

By: Sandy Cooper

Sandy Cooper — Mon, 24 May 2010 10:26:40 +0000

Hi Stephanie!

Just wanted to let you know I reprinted part of this post (with full credit to you and a two links!) on my blog today. I’m doing the unending series on balance, and this fit in so nicely.

Thanks for your blog and all you do.
Blessings,
Sandy

By: Nicki

Nicki — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:34:03 +0000

Oh, I agree with you on so many points in this article! I do facebook, and I have to say I’ve found some long-lost friends (and others have found me!), but I refuse to take surveys, quizzes, or do Farmtown. I don’t twitter or anything else. I just blog and send emails. I have 3 blogs. That’s enough ‘online’ time for me.

And I HATE texting. I hate to do it, receive it, or watch it. I am saddened by kids who are always facing down at their hands as their little fingers type out grammatically incorrect phrases all day. Like you, I’d much rather just call.

My ex-husband gave my 13 year old daughter an iPhone this summer, and boy do I regret that! I am having to teach her that the iPhone is not an extension of her arm, and that she can acutally MISS a text or two now and then. It’s the first thing I ground her from if she’s in trouble. We homeschool, so it’s completely off limits during school hours (as I imagine it would be at a public school; at least I hope so).

Thanks for being so RIGHT! : )

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By: jennibell

jennibell — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:47:45 +0000

Great post Stephanie!!! I love the internet for the connections I can make (we moved and I do not have the “in person” friendships that I left behind here) but am always wary of the time spent. Thank you for saying it like it is!! I find setting my timer helps me to realize HOW much time I’ve whittled away following link-to-link-to-link. When it goes off I allow myself to finish what is on the screen and walk away. It’s hard to do. . .but then you rediscover LOTS of time you didn’t realize you had. Years ago we got rid of our television and it’s the best thing we’ve ever done for our family (we have four children, ages 5-10). The kids play TOGETHER, know how to talk and interact with one another, and yes, they DO demand more of my time and attention but. . .HELLO. . .isn’t that what mommies are for?!? This is a short period of time in our lives. . .and we would not have discovered it without putting limits on ourselves (i.e. chucking the tube except for a DVD for weekend movies). . .so. . .thanks for reminding me that this is a good way to keep in touch but not the *only* way. . .

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By: Joanne

Joanne — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:01:33 +0000

Great post! I’m three days behind in reading my watched blogs and getting the feeling I’ll never catch up! At first, the attraction of so much craft-cooking-garden inspiration (or whatever your ‘thing’ is) has you coming back to the computer time and again. Until you realise that rather than crafting, cooking or gardening you are spending more time reading about it.
I tried Facebook but after a couple of sessions aimlessly tracking the friends of the friends of the friends of my friends, I left it. Better to cultivate a few good offline friendships than dozens of shallow online ones. In my opinion.
Balance is not something you achieve and its done. Its a constantly changing thing. Life throws something at you and you have to rebalance. Or fall and get up again.
Now I’m off to clean a room. Then read a blog. Then clean a room….

By: Ginny

Ginny — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:16:05 +0000

Thank you thank you for saying that bit about it being ok to be bored or alone with your thoughts…. It’s not only ok, it’s GOOD. We entertain ourselves to DEATH unfortunately, and what ever is going on inside, we’ll never have language for if we don’t pay attention to it!

so there. Now I’m off to Facebook while my kids watch PBS! haha

By: Lily

Lily — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:38:21 +0000

lol, reading Marita’s comment about packing away her laptop, I got this image of someone shoving a laptop into the back of a messy closet, so that the reward for cleaning it out would be reconnecting to the internet!

It could be put under piles of laundry, at the bottom of a stack of papers, behind the unruly cans in the pantry, under a stack of ironing or mending, behind the recycling, under a drift of toys or books, behind the last bed you change the sheets on, in the box of seasonal clothes you will get out after the last season is packed away, all kinds of useful places!

Sadly, I don’t have a laptop, so I guess I’m doomed to my current system of internet addiction and household messiness…… such a pity.

*wink*

love,
Lily