How to Be a Christian in a Social Media World

Tips on Interacting and Being a Better Witness on Social Media

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According to Global Web Index research as reported in Oberlo, the average person spends approximately 3 hours each day on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram. Are you the average person?

I spend time on social media, usually on Twitter so I can promote my magazine and engage with people and try to draw more traffic to Mustard Seed Sentinel. It is very easy to get sucked into the blackhole of the newsfeed on whatever social media platform you spend the most time on. You might be scrolling through Facebook and Twitter and lose yourself in a huge waste of time.

The focus in this article will be on Facebook and Twitter since those are the two social media platforms where I spend my time.

Tips discussed here can be applied to all the major social media platforms.

Prioritize and Discipline

I don’t like wasting time. However, when you go on various social media platforms, it can be extremely easy to waste time. You think you’re only going on to check notifications and then you end up scrolling the feed, and quickly lose track of time. I realized that…