So many people now say social media is bad, and truthfully for children, it is bad. But for mentally healthy adults, social media can be a place of inspiration and a place to be challenged and even a place to grow in your faith. As a wife and homemaker, I answer to my husband for how I spend my time. I can’t waste it. But everyone should have some downtime, and social media can be a useful way of connecting with the world.
On my Instagrams I follow artists whose work I adore and/or support me too, photographers that inspire me, writers who support me and/or write in genres that interest me, science accounts, and Christian accounts that encourage me to deepen my walk with God. I follow accounts about squirrels and accounts about chemistry. There’s just so much to learn and see and so much chance for connection. Here’s a partial list of types of social media accounts I follow: painters, poets, ecologists, jewelry makers, forragers, film photographers, animal rescues, novelists, embroiderers and other textile artists, chemists, astronomers, pastors, homemakers, bakers, aquarium keepers, other types of photographers, funny meme posters, productivity and inspiration experts, historians, and more. So much more.
I don’t follow anyone who makes me feel bad about myself. Of course, being challenging is not the same thing. I want to be challenged. Sometimes we need to do better, and it’s a good thing when someone tells us that. So I try to listen and see where I can take valuable lessons on board. But I don’t want to see commentary that makes me feel bad about myself for things that I’m either changing anyway or things that can’t be changed.
Likewise, I want a clean feed. No dirty pictures of naked or half-naked men. No christian woman has any business looking at that stuff, but especially not a married woman. So I like to try and keep it clean. But social media is fun and can be a place of rest, not stress, if you do it right.
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