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Instagram, More Selfish than Facebook, Really?
Slate added to the wheelhouse of Facebook-makes-you-selfish-and-lonely articles that seem to be littering the online atmosphere these days. And, while we would position our argument a little more...
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Another Week Ends: Zach Morris, Misfit Priests and Wild Geese, 50 Shades...
1) To add to the Facebook files, this one came from the New Yorker. A study was given to see what emotional effects are aggravated by social media site, and, surprise surprise, the rise in the “market...
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Another Week Ends: Language Limits, Nadia’s House, The Impostor Effect,...
1) An amazing interview with contemporary artist Chris Martin (not that one), that I wish I could reproduce here in full, over at the (ironically named) Believer. He talks about the art world and its...
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When Even Our Boredom Doesn’t Make Us Bored
A fascinating–and disturbingly convicting–article came out in The New Yorker’s Oct 28th issue called “Only Disconnect,” by Evgeny Morozov (what a name!). In it, he walks through several books and...
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Laughing in Church (But Apparently Not on Craigslist)
Last weekend we bought my wife a new (used) car. Her old(er) one was getting a bit small for our growing boys, and was quickly approaching 100,000 miles (at which point it would become more difficult...
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Lessons Learned from a Summer Fling
This reflection comes from Chelsea Batten. I probably shouldn’t have gone back to his place. But I was leaving the next morning, and I didn’t want to leave him a moment before. A proper Christian lady...
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Killing Time: The Law of Facebook Obsession
We’ve certainly said a lot about Facebook already. See here, here, and here for some fine examples. In the past week, though, some of you will have no doubt encountered Time Magazine’s new...
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Online-Only Love Affairs (in a Utopian Dystopia)
Last weekend, a few of us descended on Louisville, KY, where we were invited to discuss the, er, age-old question “What Would Jesus Tweet?”. It was a wonderful time (Thank you, STIF!) with a terrific...
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Another Week Ends: Negatively Positive Thinking, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, Love...
1. Think positive! The New Yorker this week pushes back against the “think I can” trend, famously espoused by Thomas the Train – and even in adult media, too. While it’s certain that confidence often...
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What Would Jesus Tweet? The Gospel in the 21st Century (Conference Recordings!)
An enormous thank you to all the fantastic people at St Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church in Louisville, KY, who made the What Would Jesus Tweet mini-conference possible earlier this month! What...
View ArticleNYC Preview: The Passion of the Childish Gambino: Online Honesty and...
Mockingbird has been around since 2008, and the earliest post we have on the subject of Social Media is 2009, in which we studied the phenomenon of getting busted on Facebook for real-life lies. In...
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Another Week Ends: Amy Chua’s Three Traits for Success, Nietzsche’s...
1. What happens when you combine an unshakeable superiority complex with deep insecurity? Probably a nervous breakdown in mid-life, or Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan. But Amy Chua (of “Tiger Mother”...
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Facebook, Politics, and True Forgiveness
There has been a new trend amongst my friends on Facebook that is truly terrifying. Somebody will go on another’s profile and scroll all the way back to their middle school days to find the most...
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The Selfie on the Mount
Instagram enhances Facebook’s most essential quality. Facebook allows you to keep in touch with old “friends,” but keeping in touch means subjecting yourself to climate-change rants from that girl who...
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Empathy and True Emotion in The Facebook Mood Experiment
A couple weeks ago, it was revealed that back in January 2012, Facebook ran a week long experiment on a small subset of unknowing users that has been dubbed “The Facebook Mood Experiment.” Facebook...
View ArticleOnline Honesty and Instagram Authenticity – Bryan Jarrell
In honor of passing 4000 followers on Twitter(!), here’s the final talk from our 2014 NYC Conference, by our social media guru himself, Bryan Jarrell. Now if we could just up our FB game… Online...
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Jurassic World and Facebook Elegies
Sitting in a breezy movie theater waiting for Jurassic World to start, my friend looked up from his Facebok timeline to ask me a question. We had been talking earlier about the devastating death of a...
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Alternative Faith: Click Crack, Fake News, and Good News
America has a Tweeter in Chief. The response is a seemingly unending stream of Facebook sites and posts and comments and likes and friending and unfriending. Drudge had a record month in January — over...
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The Girls of Whitehaven: Love and Friend Requests in Cyber Space
In 2009 I was invited to join “Facebook.” I already knew all about it, because my best friend from high school had gone to Harvard, where I had visited her and had seen it in 1974, in her freshman...
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Another Week Ends: Remembering Billy Graham, Masculinity, The Midlife of...
1. First up, Tullian Tchividjian posted a reflection on his remarkable grandfather, the late Billy Graham: The last real conversation I had with him will forever live in my memory. We were sitting in...
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