Time Waster?
I came across an article recently that listed the following as time wasters:
- Watching TV
- Online Social Networking – Twitter, Digg, Facebook,
- Playing Video Games.
Are they really time wasters?
Well, for someone like me, they are not!
I mean, think of how my work and ministry has been impacted and built up by Twitter.. I’ve already shared some of it in the post My Twitter Experience.
I can’t even begin to enumerate the hundreds of sermons and articles that have been inspired just by movies and documentaries on TV!
I spend lots of time with my kids playing computer and video games. It’s a bonding activity that my kids love, and one I’ll rather do than anything else.
Once again, it’s all about understanding your own uniqueness and not allowing yourself be intimidated by other people’s opinions.
Let me ask you a very simple question, Are there things you enjoy doing, but which folks would normally regard as a time waster?
Share some of these things with us and let us know the benefits you personally benefit from them.
Be inspired!
Discover Yourself!
Sarah Clark (12)
chummy (11)
Nkechinyere (3)
carri (2)
Deborah Alinda (2)
I think how you use TV, social networking, and video games and how much time you spend engaged with them determines whether or not they’re a waste of time, not the media themselves.
For me Twitter is a waste of time. However, Facebook is fun and helps me to relax. But, if I were to spend my whole day on Facebook that would definitely be a waste of time.
I don’t think there’s anything I do that anyone would consider to be a time waster.
[Reply]
@Maureen… lol.. I know you sure have some problems with Twitter!! A lot of my friends now do.
However, I met you through Twitter, and I’ve prayed for literally hundreds of people from at least 10 different countries who connected to me via Twitter and who’ve been helped. Twitter continues to be a major micro-blogging tool for me and someone recently pulled down their entire Twitter account with over 3000 followers just to follow my Twitting style. They sent me a DM to let me know.
Ironically, though I have lots of friends now at Facebook, I’m rarely there except for my auto updates fed from Twitter…lol.
You are right that it’s how you use the media that matters…
I believe you are doing well in all of the other stuff too…praying for you.
[Reply]