ONCE AGAIN, FACEBOOK IS IN THE NEWS
I speak often, whether it is in personal conversations, in this blog, or in my book, THE INTREPID MEDITATOR, about how difficult Social Media is for me. I’m in a quandary, emotionally and socially, about it. I was the last hold-out, I’m sure, signing up perhaps a decade after all of my friends signed up. I dislike online communication, online dating, online this, and online that. However, look where I am! Online. As much as I dislike the platforms, I am here. There are fewer and fewer alternatives, at this time, to direct communication. It is all online!
INSTEAD OF FIGHTING WITH MYSELF OVER FACEBOOK…
…and the ridiculousness of it, the increasing distrust I have for it, and the anger I feel knowing that young women are being taken down emotionally and psychologically by it, I’ve decided that instead of continuing to stay angry about it, and stepping away from the platform, I am going to go in and become a voice for learning to live with Social Media. It’s on me to find balance in a world increasingly living with Social Media and becoming disillusioned with it.
I WANT TO HELP YOUR DAUGHTERS.
I very much want to help them help themselves drill their way out of the underwater mine they have landed in. We’re all in this together. We created these platforms by using them and engaging with them. We’re responsible. We are creatives, creating. We can create a hole for ourselves as much as we can create a solution. I want to become part of the solution. Not the problem.
I AM OFFERING MEDITATIVE INSIGHT IN THE INTREPID MEDITATOR THAT GIVES PERSPECTIVE ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA PHENOMENON.
Facebook acts as a disruptor. It is a seemingly innocuous machine spitting out content from which we react, and it is the reaction that causes the harm. But believe it or not, through meditation I have been shown that Facebook is a teaching tool. Are you capable as seeing it as such? Facebook has become a threat. It is no longer harmless. It is a threat to our sense of self. Can we learn to appreciate a teaching tool that looks and acts in such a backwards way?
In order to find balance within we must begin to balance our relationship with Social Media. I invite you to join the conversation. How will you see yourselves and the daughters in your life, the young women who might look up to you, as contributors to the balance? Where do we begin?