If you can’t tell, I’ve got a love/hate relationship with social media.  It’s great to keep up with old friends who don’t live locally or to stay involved with professional or hobby groups.

There is a danger to it though.  It gives us a way to express ourselves to the entire world almost instantaneously.  Our immediate thoughts can be sent to the four corners of the world at the click of a button.  Do you see the problem yet or do we need to remember that sometimes our immediate thoughts shouldn’t be broadcast?

Sometimes they are inappropriate or inconsiderate while other times they may be unhelpful or hurtful.

More often than not these days we receive or even express things that need not be said or even shouldn’t be said.  Our news feeds are full of vitriol and hate in quantities we have rarely seen in history.  Mostly because the moment we get angry, we respond.  To the entire world.

In a time where it is so easy to express ourselves, we need to be more vigilant about what we are expressing and how we are expressing it.  Be slow to speak, think it through before we do.

James 1:19 “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;”

Or, to take a note from Hamilton’s Aaron Burr, “Talk less” if need be.

Ecclesiastes 10:14. “A fool multiplies words, …”