Drew Downs

Tag: Social media

  • 3 things a true social media replacement would need

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    3 things a true social media replacement would need

    The next gen social media app doesn’t need to be perfect. It needs to be good. As in making us better humans.

  • There’s more than one reason to leave Twitter

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    There’s more than one reason to leave Twitter

    We called it a hellsite. Our main source of news. Social media. Tech platform. It was always more than free speech.

  • Social Media Scrambles Thinking

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    Social Media Scrambles Thinking

    Episode 42 of the Make Saints podcast

  • Why I’m limiting social media

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    Why I’m limiting social media

    I used to spend hours on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Total early adopter. Here’s why I’m cutting back.

  • You are what you read

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    You are what you read

    Regularly engaging in outrage on social media writes outrage into our lives. Who we are online is who we are.

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    Tweeting in Church: a Good Gateway Drug

    Tweeting at a wedding: an Episcopal wedding, no less!  Two social media savvy people were married Saturday in a fully-media-integrated wedding.  Their plan, to heavily invest the event with all of their contacts, resides in that wonderful terrain in which we figure out what we consider “acceptable”.  The couple, blogging at #3xCharm, have made the…