Category Archives: Social Media
The Media’s Attack on Christians
The recent coming out of Jason Collins as the first openly gay active male athlete in professional sports has sent shock waves around the sporting world. Collins has received much support from other athletes and fans. NBA Commissioner David Stern also was quick to pay tribute to Collins. ”Jason has been a widely respected player and teammate [...]
3 Very Cool Faith Based Social Media T-shirts
I came across these t-shirts today and thought I would share them with you. They are from a clothing company called Kerusso. One thing I love about these shirts is that they are real conversation starters. They use relevant and popular brands such as Facebook to grab people’s attention and then hit them with a [...]
Boston Marathon Bombers Manhunt Tweeted Live
As the events of Monday became clearer and the authorities had the suspects they felt were responsible in the public eye, it didn’t take long for things to unravel. Late Thursday night a shootout and chase ensued between the 2 suspects and the police. What was fascinating was that the entire event on Thursday was followed live [...]
Boston Marathon Bombings – the Role of Twitter During a Crisis
I recently posted an article about Twitter turning 7. I am not great with timelines and dates, because it seems like Twitter has been around much longer than that. I have children who will be able to say that it’s been around their entire lifetime. Time sure does go by quickly. At the 10th anniversary [...]
Free Facebook Photo Covers {set 3}
This month Why We Web is happy to offer four free Facebook cover pictures for you to use – grab the ones you like, or be inspired to go and create your own personal Facebook cover! Enjoy ~
The Kevin Ware Experience
Before Sunday, most of us had probably never heard of Kevin Ware, but now, none of us can ever forget him. The 20 year old sophomore from the Bronx, New York left the sports world reeling, and the internet buzzing after suffering a horrific leg injury during Sunday’s March Madness matchup between the University of [...]
Snapchat: This post will self-destruct in 10…
All the latest stats are showing us that teens and college students are getting bored of Facebook. Now – when parents and church leaders are finally figuring out how to use Facebook and what security precautions to take and what impact the “public-ness” of our lives have become to both others around us and ourselves. [...]
Social Media Rejection
Setting the scene: you log onto Facebook and notice that one of your best friends has just updated their photo album with new pics from the weekend. You laugh at the first couple of photos as you see some fun shots of your friend. Then it happens. You see some other people in the photos [...]
Happy Birthday Twitter plus Twitter Explained
Today marks that day that Jack Dorsey sent out his first tweet that said, “just setting up my twttr.” With that microblog post, Twitter was born. Now tweets fly mysteriously through our air space at a rate of 400 million tweets a day by over 200 million active users. Although I do have a [...]