Oct 2, 2009
What are some happy ways social media has worked its way into your real life?
Last night Zach Nielsen tweeted,
One message and 45 minutes later they were at our kitchen table.
Twitter felt valuable right then.
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last week I wrote on my Facebook status that we had raccoons/tons of raccoon droppings in our yard & asked if anyone had any tips to deal with them. We’d had them for a couple weeks & we were mostly just annoyed with them, nothing more. Got a Facebook message from an old friend informing me that raccoon droppings can carry a potentially deadly parasite. A quick google search confirmed this reality and a phone call later the traps were set and 4 coons were caught. So…Facebook may have saved our lives?
Spent last week asking all sorts of people if they knew anyone who could get our basement carpet laid before the end of next week. Asked on FB and had a friend recommend a friend who worked with some guys who knew some other guys, inside 30 minutes.
One of the other guys is coming Monday.
I found my current roommate via facebook status update.
Facebook taught me that if you add a tablespoon of vodka to your homemade ice cream it will keep it soft and creamy in the freezer.
How can you not be happy after learning that?
It’s become a great way for me to communicate with my homeschooling sistas. A bunch of us are the FB, we share what we are doing, recipes, curriculum, homeschooling meeting updates, pic. The works.
Our church is connected via twitter and FB, love it. Since the church as a FB and Twitter account they send out announcements, reminders of up coming events and such.
Basically it’s keeping me connected!
We’re missionaries and do a lot of traveling plus live far away from many people we love and family. Facebook enables us to stay involved in a small way with people’s lives without the necessity of many long phone calls. It also provides a way to grow relationships with people who would otherwise remain mere acquaintances. It’s also a direct and quick way to request prayer from a huge cross-section of people who we love from around the world all in one simple status update.
I have often been encouraged by things christians post on blogs/FB.
This isn’t really all that “important,” but one time I dropped my phone in one of the dining halls at my school, and two minutes later, one of my friend told me that I should go pick up my phone from one of the offices in that area.
Someone had tweeted “Tell whoever’s phone this is that they can pick it up at the Student Life Office in the Russell House,” and before I even knew it was missing, my friends told me where I could go find it!
I have a circle of four girlfriends who have stayed in touch and celebrated major life events since high school. When the second one got married a couple years ago, we were spread out across five towns and three states, so we planned her entire bachelorette party on Facebook.
My wife, 2 kids and my mom were planning to leave on Sat 9/26 for vacation. We had a 6 hour drive. This was an important vacation, my father had passed away from a 4yr battle with cancer just a few weeks prior, so me and my mom needed to get away and get some rest. My minivan broke down the day before we were to leave and the mechanic could not get the required parts until the next week. So on Friday evening, as a last resort, I just posted on FB about the problem and within 2 hours a family at our church had offered their van to me for the week. They have 3 kids, but one was going to his grandparents for the week, so they could get by in my sedan.
Isn’t that a false dichotomy? How are the people I talk with regularly online, and work with, and share with, not part of my “real life”?