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I honestly don't know what to say in this blog post. I feel rather strongly about social media. Most of my views on it are my opinion and are not necessarily the best thing for everyone. I do not want to offend anyone (for once) or to cause any angst where there doesn't have to be any. I say that to say this. Take this blog post with a grain of salt - these are my personal opinions about social media. These opinions apply to me and I by no means think any differently of people who don't hold to my opinions.

Social media is a great thing. There are many plus sides to social media. I would even say that there is generally more good in social media than there is bad. However, social media (like anything else) can be misconstrued and abused. This is obvious, and I think most people will agree. Social media becomes a problem, like anything else, when it is put in a place above ones relationship with God. I have been guilty of this. This is one of the main reasons I have personally had to cut back on some of my social media use. In middle school, I was on Facebook practically every fifteen minuets. I became addicted (I become addicted easily). I had to drastically cut back on the amount of time I allowed myself to spend on social media. Another reason I had to cut back on some social media was the content. For example, I had to delete Vine because I was hard pressed to find any vines without explicit language. Apparently in order to make a six second video funny, it must have some profanity. Not all vines were like this, but it got to the point where there was so much language that I started thinking in profane language and eventually speaking it. Profane language is not necessarily bad in all respects, however, for my family it is something that we do not partake in. Vine was a bad influence on me and I had to stop being engulfed in it. Another social media platform I had to remove from my life was Snapchat. Many of you know my thoughts in regards to Snapchat, so I will not share them here in detail. In short, there were two main reasons for this. One major contributing factor was that it had a terrible user interface and I do not support platforms that are not visually appealing. The other reason was that not much good can come from sending and receiving pictures that you can only see for ten seconds (and I will end my discussion on Snapchat there).

Don't get me wrong, social media is great. It is a fantastic tool in furthering the Kingdom. Social media can and is used to glorify God. However, it is when it no longer glorifies God that something needs to change.

Attempting to Tread Lightly,
Devin Young