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Facebook - the flip side: on relationships, community, and who I am

Posted by Aprille D on Saturday, April 21, 2012, In : God's blessings & spiritual musings

This post is a continuation of my inner thoughts and turmoil about my decision to stay off of Facebook or get back on May 1st...if you have not read my previous posts, PLEASE read them here, as they are paramount for understanding the entire picture of what's been going on:
http://www.beautifulinhistime.com/blog/deactivate-activate
http://www.beautifulinhistime.com/blog/doubts-and-reassurances
http://www.beautifulinhistime.com/blog/on-being-a-facebook-postaholic-privacy-and-pleasing-people

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On being a Facebook addict, privacy, and pleasing people

Posted by Aprille D on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, In : God's blessings & spiritual musings

It's been 27 days since I first deactivated my Facebook account. And honestly they have flown by.

Let me preface all of this by saying a few things: I have had to reactivate my account for some non-social reasons. Reactivation happened for the express purposes of helping my husband with job-search related queries to potential employers, and these days even they use Facebook as a primary means of communication. Thus the reactivation while we are waiting for some responses.

Having my account te...
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Doubts and Reassurances

Posted by Aprille D on Saturday, March 31, 2012, In : God's blessings & spiritual musings

Now that I'm no longer on vacation I'm realizing it's a bit harder to stay off of Facebook. I'm feeling the urges and desires creeping back...the doubts that maybe this won't work for me.

Yesterday at the hospital I saw two of my Facebook friends. It was weird for me. I felt kind of disconnected from their lives, and I didn't know what to say. I wrote this down in a notebook I had with me:

Feeling lonely--disconnected. I see friends at the hospital and feel at a loss as to what to say. One I wi...

Deactivate...ACTIVATE

Posted by Aprille D on Friday, March 30, 2012, In : God's blessings & spiritual musings

We are coming to the end of March. At the beginning of March I set the goal for myself to “Make March Matter!” March has been difficult, full of many tears, but the difficulties I have faced have been growing pains, exercise pains, soul-searching pains. And I have definitely “made March matter.” I've exercised more, eaten better, and picked up a very old hobby of reading some amazingly life changing books.

The biggest lesson that God has taught me over the last month is this:

My blog may be neglected...but...

Posted by Aprille D on Tuesday, August 9, 2011, In : Family News

I was going to get on here this morning and apologize for running behind on blogging...yet again.

Then I realized that I didn't really care that much.

I love blogging. I love sharing my photos with the world. I love having a place to share inspirational thoughts or vent about life as it is. But I'm learning that time with my son is so much more important.

The older Ezra gets, the harder it is to spend time online. 1) Now, unless I am sitting at the kitchen table, he can reach the computer and ...
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My Facebook Friends (and other life decisions)

Posted by Aprille on Sunday, November 21, 2010, In : Miscellaneous

A late-night comedian/talk show host named Jimmy Kimmel declared November 17, 2010 to be "National Unfriend Day"..."a new holiday he hopes will inspire Facebook users to unfriend the social networking contacts that aren’t real friends."

While I do not support this man, or his show, I was impressed by the idea behind his newly-created holiday. I have been struggling with Facebook so much recently. There are many nuances to Facebook relationships that really irk me...from "friends" criticizing...
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