Can privacy hurt your witness?

[Wynona]

I don't trust people anymore. With privacy, I feel like I don't have to.

It feels so deliciously satisfying to keep "friends" Ive distanced myself from out of the loop, that I may never share a facebook post again. They get nothing. Not a pregnancy announcement, status update, nada.

But can wanting privacy go too far? My only confidante is my husband. I also journal. Is this selfish? Failing to shine my light before men?

 

[Nancy]

I don't trust people anymore. With privacy, I feel like I don't have to.

It feels so deliciously satisfying to keep "friends" Ive distanced myself from out of the loop, that I may never share a facebook post again. They get nothing. Not a pregnancy announcement, status update, nada.

But can wanting privacy go too far? My only confidante is my husband. I also journal. Is this selfish? Failing to shine my light before men?

In my own looong experience I would say a solid YES! but there is always:

https://youtu.be/2zx6j4vI8lE

You're pregnant sister! Siddown for a minute, lol

 

[Rita]

I think it’s about balance. I use to share everything, I don’t anymore. I have learnt the hard way that when you are too trusting you get hurt because ultimately people are very quick to give opinions, make judgements and comments that are just so unhelpful. I find the only person I am completely honest with is The Lord, after all he knows everything about me, others don’t.
It doesn’t mean I never share things, but I am selective with who i share with, and what I share.
I personally don’t think it’s being a bad witness at all, you live in a community that sees how you live your life , you interact with people in the real world. Just because you don’t share anything on social media doesn’t mean you stop being part of your environment.
I know for a fact that when I use to share everything on FB I had a need , I don’t have that need anymore. Sharing with the Lord, more so in my journal , is enough. So, for me, it’s about growing xx
Rita

 

[quietthinker]

I don't trust people anymore. With privacy, I feel like I don't have to.

It feels so deliciously satisfying to keep "friends" Ive distanced myself from out of the loop, that I may never share a facebook post again. They get nothing. Not a pregnancy announcement, status update, nada.

But can wanting privacy go too far? My only confidante is my husband. I also journal. Is this selfish? Failing to shine my light before men?

Choosing carefully who one confides in is wise. Facebook on the other hand is putting ones head in the lions mouth.

 

[Rita]

I also realise that social media is seen a must these days - I am of a different generation. So I guess that the younger generation may see it as some kind of failure to not share within that realm.
It’s not, you still have the right to choose how you communicate and to who xx

 

[dev553344]

I don't share on social media unless I'm anonymous in my account, and even then there are things I keep private for security reasons. Like I never tell people my plans or what I am about to do.

I share about my mental illness as other mentally ill people can benefit from it, but I only do that in my anonymous accounts, not Facebook.

I shared with my neighbor that I have a mental illness and all I got was judgments from him. It's been a disaster. So I don't tell people I'm mentally ill in person.

 

[Nancy]

In my own looong experience I would say a solid YES! but there is always:

https://youtu.be/2zx6j4vI8lE

You're pregnant sister! Siddown for a minute, lol

@Wynona ,
Let me reiterate a bit. I think I misread or mistook part of your OP. I should have really said a "solid no!" to your question. Privacy is huge, even among those on here, especially on here. Like Rita, I too have stopped sharing certain things unless I feel comfortable. People, Christians especially can and will treat us differently.
As far as those you have distanced as "friends", my guess is they are not Christians?
I'm just so used to you always being super busy with chores and such. And, seeing as you are very pregnant, my "Siddown for a minute" was meaning to slow down...after reading Rita's post, I re-read your post again. Forgive me?!!

 

[Behold]

I don't share on social media unless I'm anonymous in my account, and even then there are things I keep private for security reasons. Like I never tell people my plans or what I am about to do.

I share about my mental illness as other mentally ill people can benefit from it, but I only do that in my anonymous accounts, not Facebook.

I shared with my neighbor that I have a mental illness and all I got was judgments from him. It's been a disaster. So I don't tell people I'm mentally ill in person.

If we invite people to gossip, they will.

If you put it out there, so will they.

count on it.

So, unless you want that Reader, then be private regarding what needs to be kept private.

 

[Wynona]

@Wynona ,
Let me reiterate a bit. I think I misread or mistook part of your OP. I should have really said a "solid no!" to your question. Privacy is huge, even among those on here, especially on here. Like Rita, I too have stopped sharing certain things unless I feel comfortable. People, Christians especially can and will treat us differently.
As far as those you have distanced as "friends", my guess is they are not Christians?
I'm just so used to you always being super busy with chores and such. And, seeing as you are very pregnant, my "Siddown for a minute" was meaning to slow down...after reading Rita's post, I re-read your post again. Forgive me?!!

I wasn't offended. Love you, sis!!