Social Media and Parenting — How Has Changing into a Mother or father Modified the Approach You Use Social Media?
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Over on Corporette at this time we’re speaking about how you use social media with coworkers, however I’ve usually felt that it’s been fascinating how turning into a father or mother has modified the best way I take advantage of social media (significantly Fb!), so let’s talk about!
For my very own $.02:
I solely use LinkedIn professionally and with excellent pals — I might not hyperlink with a random mother I knew there, and never even with somebody I knew of their skilled capability like a principal or instructor or one thing.
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For Fb, I’m fairly free with whom I befriend, and I’m pals with a zillion mothers from my boys’ lessons and actions, in addition to with dad and mom within the neighborhood. I’ve truly heard about loads of nice native actions by these relationships! That stated, I nearly by no means publish on Fb personally, and I’ev set who can see my posts to a reasonably non-public setting with solely “actual” pals.
I additionally use Fb for a zillion parenting teams and different particular curiosity teams — as I defined on Corporette, I take advantage of the teams as form of a specialised search engine, the place if I’m inquisitive about one thing I’ll go on to a selected group and search for it. I additionally type of take into account it a simple solution to study by osmosis — for instance, for my son who suffers from a little bit of misophonia, I’m unlikely to learn a ebook or take heed to a podcast simply on misophonia, however seeing the occasional publish from the misophonia group on Fb is at all times useful for a tip or higher understanding of the dysfunction.
(That stated, I had a nasty expertise with the Fb app years and years in the past and so refuse to obtain it or Messenger — I solely verify Fb on the desktop.)
Readers, how about you — are you befriending different mothers you recognize on social media? Are you following them on Instagram or different apps? Did turning into a father or mother change the best way you employ LinkedIn?
