Social Media Could Change The World… and Your Life

¹⁷ And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. – Colossians 3:17

Yesterday I covered how Social Media could ruin your life, today I want to focus on how it could benefit your life, in addition to changing the world.

Social Media Can Inspire the World – People often downplay tweeting inspirational quotes – does it really matter? Well, all quotes can do is inspire someone. When the inspiration turns to action – it makes a huge difference. My take: inspire as often as possible – you never know who you’re inspiring and what will happen if they act on that inspiration.

Social Media Can Encourage the World- Everybody needs encouragement. Social media provides an avenue to encourage everyone often.  Encourage everybody you can!

Social Media Makes the World a Better Place – Again, it comes down to who is using it. But what if we’re always encouraging and inspiring people with what we do through social media? You can’t tell me the world wouldn’t be a better place!

Social Media Can Expand Your Influence – You have an opportunity to build your reputation and increase your influence for good or bad with everything you do through social media. Build a great platform – I recommend reading Michael Hyatt’s Blog – he is a master at this. He posted about building your online platform here.

Social Media Can Cause Your Product or Business to Thrive - If you’re consistent and continue to provide products, ideas, inspiration, and encouragement that will benefit others, word will spread and you’ll benefit.

Social Media Can Spread Your Message around the World - What are you passionate about? What is the one message you want to communicate to the world? For me, I want people to know that the best life they could ever live is passionately living for God everyday. Everything I do is to spread that message. If it’s a message worth spreading, it will get around!

What am I missing? What other ways are social media beneficial?

Social Media Could Ruin Your Life

¹⁷ And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. – Colossians 3:17

Yesterday I said that social media is like money, it’s neutral. Whether or not the use of it will result in a positive or negative outcome is entirely up to the user. Today I want to focus on the negative aspect of social media. Here are my thoughts:

You Could Waste Your Life - How much time do you spend on Facebook? How much time do you spend on other people’s pages wishing you were them, could date them, had as many friends as them? How much time do you spend building a reputation online that isn’t even close to what your real life is? Just some thoughts…

You Could Destroy Your Reputation – Ultimately – this really comes down to how you live your life on a daily basis. If you don’t live a life of integrity and make unwise decisions, most likely whether it’s through pictures or people talking through social media, the entire world is going to find out, and what’s worse, once it’s out there, you can’t get it back.

You Could Miss Out on Your Dream Job - Resume’s are boring -> companies would rather google you.  What does Google say about you? Twitter? Your Facebook account? Your pictures? Social media will tell more about you than a resume ever will. If you were an employer and you saw your pictures or googled your name, would you hire you?

You Could Destroy Relationships - There is danger in how connected we can be through social media. Married people  could connect with lovers from high school, you can send love messages to people who are in a relationship and see if they’ll leave who their with to be with you… Basically: it’s a place that could lead to some very bad decisions if you don’t have boundaries in place or apply wisdom.

It Could Kill Your Business, Church, Organization - How often do you check what people said about a product or restaurant before you bought it or visited? When people visit your business, church, or organization, they will talk about  it. They will talk about it online and over time, the more people that talk, the more your companies reputation is effected through viral marketing of your customers. It’s either going to be good or bad, if it’s bad and you don’t do anything to change that… you’re not going to last very long.

These are just a few ways social media could ruin your life…..What am I missing?

Does Social Media Really Matter? Part 1

¹⁷ And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. – Colossians 3:17

I feel like this question comes up a lot. Is Blogging, Twitter, and Facebook a waste of time? Does it really make a difference? Does Tweeting inspiring quotes really have the ability to change someones life? I’ve asked myself this hundreds of times. My conclusion – Yes. It can make a huge difference.

Using social media could get you a job, get you fired, enhance your life or ruin it, connect you with the past, push you into the future, get you noticed or ignored, get you connected with a future spouse, or cause you to have an affair that ends in a divorce, ruin your reputation forever, allow you to waste your life, or allow you to influence millions of people and change the world.

The Catch? It’s entirely up to you. Social media is like money, it’s neutral, neither good nor evil. How a person uses social media will determine whether or not it will be good them.

I want to take a few days and talk about what I’ve learned through this “Revolution” and hopefully by the end, you’ll take what you’ve learned and make an even bigger difference in the world.

The Social Media Revolution

I saw this video this morning and was amazed by the stats. I thought I’d share it with you…Hope it helps you realize the benefits of social media and where the world is going!

Thoughts?

1 Year of Twitter…What You Need to Know, Who You Should Follow

I’ve been on Twitter for a year already… Hard to believe! However, I absolutely love it.

Included in this post are some articles that will help you understand Twitter and how to effectively use it as well as some people worth following on Twitter. I’m sure I’ll have some more posts on Twitter in the future… Hope this one helps! At the bottom of this post is a video that Twitter plays on it’s homepage… It is a brief explanation of Twitter…

Articles on Twitter – How to, Answers to Objections, Why, Etc.

• Why Twitter?
• Answers to Objections
• 12 Reasons to Start Twittering
• Beginners Guide to Twitter
• Update Your Facebook Status with Twitter
• How Much Time Does Twitter Really Take?

So Who Should You be Following… These People:

Victory Family Church Twitterers:

@lifeatvictory - Victory Family Church

@VictoryBible - Victory Bible Institute

@19North – Young Adult Ministry

@I_am_Revolution - Youth Ministry

@pcdebower – Associate Pastor

@stvmoore – Executive Pastor

@nathan_hurst - Youth Pastor

@zackblair - Young Adult Pastor (19 North)

@mdgates – Business Administrator

@chrismart_in – Website/Creative Director

@seweaver1 - VBI Assistant

@bubbasmith – Youth Assistant (me)

@smoore001526 – Youth Assistant

Leaders You Should Follow:

@michaelhyatt – CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing

@johncmaxwell - Leadership Guru

@joycemeyer - Ministry

@perrynoble – Senior Pastor at Newspring Church

@stevenfurtick - Senior Pastor at Elevation Church

@erwinmcmanus - Senior Pastor at Mosaic Church

@jeannemayo - Youth Pastors/Leader Coach

@johnpiper - Pastor/Author

@bcoop - Youth Pastor at Newspring Church

@tomziglar – Zig Ziglars Son

@andystanley – Senior Pastor North Point Church

Others I Enjoy Following:

@lbettencourt - Finishline Ministries . . . Great friend and personal mentor

@benrath – 19 North Coordinator, friend, mentor

There are a ton more people I follow that I’d love to mention… but I just recommend jumping on board and finding the people that you want to follow. If you have any other questions about twitter – let me know! I’m sure I’ll do more posts on Twitter in the future!