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the "edited" life

    We are often tempted to portray a "edited" version of ourselves on social media. Even when we post "reality" pictures on our Instagram or Facebook we still tend to edit it. Reading and re-reading what we say. 

   Social media makes it easy to portray a perfect life. It is so easy to post something, leaving out the hard stuff. It also makes it easy to become jealous because it seems like everyone else's life is so perfect and no one else has the same problems as you. 

   The idea of connecting over social media isn't new, it's the concept of 
friendship that has changed. Friends used to be the people you saw every week at church or at school but more and more often, friends are becoming the people we talk to over that internet or that one kid that starts liking your pictures. Friends are now becoming people we have never meet. 

    Social media is taking over our lives and we aren't stoping it. We aren't worried about it. We are just letting it happen and worse, we are going along with it. We need to ask ourselves how we can use our social media outlets to share the love of Christ to others throughout our life on the screen, instead of living our lives for others.
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