Just about everyone has mixed feelings about their smartphone, a love/hate relationship. There are good and bad effects and no one is completely untouched.
What is truth? How do you decide who to listen to, who has authority, who merits your trust. For some in today's social media world, it's a matter of likes, views, subscribers, numbers.
Sean McDowell does a lot of conversations on his youtube channel, some guests agreeing and some disagreeing with him. One listener commented that a guest on the show had more authority than Sean did. Why? Because he had more views and subscribers at that time than Sean did. It wasn't even a matter of who made better points than the other.
Screen time is always available to distract you from more important things. Much has been made of the advice to put down your phone when you're interacting with a live person. A teen-age girl once told Sean the reason she spent a lot of time watching videos: “I keep myself busy, so I don’t have to slow down and feel the loneliness in my heart.”
More on this topic and his new book . .
from Sean McDowell's blog
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