social-media

Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.

Every new form of communication brings with it a perennial angst about what it is doing to our brains. We are not the first to feel that everything is changing too quickly around us, and we won't be the last. Throughout history, communication technologies have been catalysts of societal and cultural change that upset the status quo.

The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly

What you post online speaks VOLUME about who you really are. POST with intention. REPOST with caution.

If your happy and you know it a smiley face will surely show it : ) Netiquette by NetworkEtiquette.net

she seemed happy, though perhaps a bit desperately so

Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to rely upon it as a reflection of our charitable efforts.

Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what__ going on in the lives of other people _ what they__e thinking about, what they__e doing, what they__e looking at _ by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online. We__e now able to stitch together these fantastic details and mental maps of what is going on in other people__ lives.

Some even __eek through_ their computer screens to see themselves on FB as others see them, in order to be sure of who they really are. In effect, they have become self-voyeurs!

What is seen by all on FB becomes what each person also sees in the mirror when he sees himself. The others_ gaze, but also the others_ values, opinions, and judgements become one__ own.

Millennials (aka Generation Y) are great at social media (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter,Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Snapchat, Pinterest, YouTube, Vimeo, and Periscope) but lack time tested social skills ( patience, humility, active listening, respect for parents, teachers, elderly)

Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Beautiful - Highly appealing to the senses and mind. NetworkEtiqeutte.net

On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk.

You could write the best book in the world but if nobody knows about it, it is nothing

Netiquette starts at home. Family values are a good frame of reference for netiquette rules. NetworkEtiquette.net

The value is not in the noise one makes on socialmedia but the voice - the message being heard

Visibility without Value is Vanity

let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.