Two items today…
First, a large part of the Internet world communicates on Facebook these days, and to keep in touch with my web-neighbors and friends around the globe, I’ve just launched a SpiritView page on Facebook.
You can check it out now at www.facebook.com/SpiritViewBlog and “Like” it!
And secondly, on the Facebook page, you’ll find a short fun video I just produced, “Don’t Fear the Ogre!”
It’s my first effort at using a green screen in video, and I have much to learn to master the medium, but I hope you enjoy the message and get a few chuckles out of it too!
On the Facebook page, click the “Like” button, and you’ll be notified when new content arrives.
Enjoy!
I love your blog Evan, it’s almost the first thing I read online every weekday morning. Quite often, the ideas you share reveal fresh ways of thinking about concepts that have otherwise become hackneyed and stale. Your blog is a great source of inspiration.
I’ve chosen not to use Facebook for several reasons and I’m hoping that keeping this blog as active as it is now is still in your plans.
Kind regards,
Drew
Dear Evan,
Like the previous poster, I access your blog just about first thing every morning. It has been transformative in unexpected–and always good– ways. So grateful.
Once an avid Facebook fan, I too have opted out; I have noticed this to be a trend among other former big users. Blogs seem more manageable, and far more private for the viewer.
So…happy you have posted the video, but really hoping that you will continue to invest equal time in the blog even as your Facebook page gains popularity.
Thanks for everything. The generosity you manifest in making spiritual insight available is really unparalleled. Anna
Oh! I am so glad that others feel the same as I do about Facebook. I tried it when my son put it on for me, but I don’t like it and I hope that you keep the original Spirit View just the way it was all these years. IT’S MY {COFFEE} IN THE MORNING.
If outreach is your goal, Evan, I hope a presence on Facebook works for you. However, I agree with the previous posters — and was heartened to know I’m not the only one who isn’t a fan of Facebook. I write my own blog, an online journal for my family, which I enjoy as a creative outlet, and I follow a few other blogs, including this one.
To above. I don’t Facebook either but if you click Evan’s link to it someone had already put up another link from it to YouTube and you can still watch it on youtube without going in to Facebook.
🙂
As a computer professional for over 40 years, I also used Facebook in the past. Given the latest trends in invasion of privacy by the NSA, Google, et al I now stay away from “public” social media as much as possible…especially those where one leaves blog like comments.
Spiritview has been excellent alternative now via WordPress.org.
Hopefully, as mentioned by some of your other responders, I hope that you can maintain this blog as well as your intentions of using Facebook for others..
Facebook is an excellent source for getting the Message out, but there are also a handful of us ol’ experienced “Facebookers” that now shy away from it. The Facebook targeted advertising gets a little overwhelming whle the Spiritview blog is not.
I couldn’t find the OGRE video on your facebook page.
I’ts on this page:
https://www.facebook.com/SpiritViewBlog
Thanks for all your heartening comments about my blog. Feat not! The blog goes on as usual. Facebook is more of an extension of my blog, not a substitution. And I understand about many of you staying away from Facebook. I’ve been very timid myself about going in that direction, but there is a huge world of users on Facebook that live, move and breathe that medium. It seems naive to ignore it if one wishes to participate in public discussion these days. This is all a major learning experience for me.
I have Facebook but I prefer not to use it. I like this site and enjoy checking it daily . I really don’t navigate facebook since I don’t have an iphone to upload and download photos, I often get stuck on it.
Evan, I too am not a fan of Facebook and so. will not use it. However, I was able to access your new video using your last link.
Fear certainly is a giant or ogre in our mortal mind. But knowing the Truth and letting the light shine into that darkness of fear will definitely cause it to shrink and disappear.
I loved the video and your blog as always.
Thank you for all of them
Facebook is more enjoyable when it’s about giving not getting. About giving a little attention to someone other than yourself. About giving little oohs and ahhs to somebody else’s family photos or vacation photos . About helping celebrate somebody else’s life events. Even a little kindly listening to somebody else’s opinions. And also about sharing a limited amount of info about yourself, for somebody else’s enjoyment.
Tobias, since I know that you post on many CS sites, I looked for you on Facebook. I’ve never met you and I live far away from you, but I thought we might both enjoy a few little exchanges. So I was disappointed not to find you on Facebook. Just telling you, you never know who might be interested in a little friendship, if you make yourself available in that way.
Everyone should remember that Facebook was created originally for use by college students. The rest of us are just joining in.
An FB page like Evan’s new one is, of course, a “business” page. As such one can “participate” by liking, commenting and sharing items, but it’s not a 2-way street for communication like a “friendship” page. As such it is perhaps a little less interesting. . .even though this one of Evan’s is very nicely put together, and the Ogre video is great fun.
I also opted out of facebook and like the some what privacy and intimacy of the blog.
Looks good and keep up all your good work.
Rob Scott
Chicago, IL
Thanks for the lovely sharing Evan. Would like to see your videos regularly.