VideoAndy Crouch answers the question:
“I know I use social media too much, but so do all my friends, and if I don’t go online, it means missing out on what everyone else is talking about. Is there any way to disconnect without being left out?“
Transcript
When I think about disconnecting, I think less about all or nothing as rhythms. It’s not good for any of us to be always on; it’s often good for us to stay in touch with the people who matter to us. And so we can do that with a rhythm. So, you don’t have to check every moment – those threads, those texts, will stay there for an hour or for an afternoon or even for a day. So what I try to do is just check in to the streams of media that I use and the social media that I use just a handful of times a day. And that actually keeps me very much up to date on what I need to know and the people I want to be in touch with, but allows me to spend most of my time not absorbed in the screen but eyes up, head up, attention out to the world and the real people around me.