I have entered a new phase of life...a quieter one...a more peaceful one....a much more relaxing one!! My kids are not gagged...all of the tvs are still plugged in....and I still like listening to my music loud. No, the sounds that are missing are the constant sounds of alerts on my phone and ringing and texting!! I mean.....WOW!! It is amazing.
I love Facebook...I love it SO much. I LIKE keeping in touch with all my friends. I LOVE hearing about their ups and their downs (ok, I don't like the downs, but I like praying for them). But, as your social circle grows, it can be hard to get the constant alerts. People post multiple times a day and for each post, my phone would ding. OR, I comment on a post and get dinged everytime someone else posts after.....ugh! I could get tons of dings a minute. Not good. It was starting to get on my nerves...seriously...I could feel myself twinge with each sound....the eye starts twitching...I start muttering nonsense to myself.
I went through and tried to change friendship statuses, but my aversion to the ding had reached a manic level so I finally disabled all notifications from Facebook. Was this EVER liberating. When I have time to check, I check. Know what...I am not missing anything earth shattering. I get to read my friends updates in peace and my irritation level has gone way down.
But this new feeling still left me hollow....for my phone is constantly ringing and my texts are constantly double dinging and my hair is getting thinner as I pull it out. I'm in the middle of a school lesson and if it isn't the ring it's the vibrating and it was just getting ridiculous.
Then Apple did a wonderful thing...they released an update, ios 6. Oh my. I do not know much about the update...yet.... I just downloaded it last night. I noticed a new feature on it...."Do Not Disturb". What is this wondrous thing?? Oh my....best update feature EVER. You turn on the feature and the only time your phone will ring or your text will ding is if the person calling you is in your favorites list!! Oh, you can see that they called when you turn on your phone....but you never got rudely interrupted. Heaven sounds a lot like this! My phone is so quiet and I am so at peace.
Of course, this means that if you are NOT on my favorites list, I will miss your call...leave a message....I'll call you back..........maybe.
I love Facebook...I love it SO much. I LIKE keeping in touch with all my friends. I LOVE hearing about their ups and their downs (ok, I don't like the downs, but I like praying for them). But, as your social circle grows, it can be hard to get the constant alerts. People post multiple times a day and for each post, my phone would ding. OR, I comment on a post and get dinged everytime someone else posts after.....ugh! I could get tons of dings a minute. Not good. It was starting to get on my nerves...seriously...I could feel myself twinge with each sound....the eye starts twitching...I start muttering nonsense to myself.
I went through and tried to change friendship statuses, but my aversion to the ding had reached a manic level so I finally disabled all notifications from Facebook. Was this EVER liberating. When I have time to check, I check. Know what...I am not missing anything earth shattering. I get to read my friends updates in peace and my irritation level has gone way down.
But this new feeling still left me hollow....for my phone is constantly ringing and my texts are constantly double dinging and my hair is getting thinner as I pull it out. I'm in the middle of a school lesson and if it isn't the ring it's the vibrating and it was just getting ridiculous.
Then Apple did a wonderful thing...they released an update, ios 6. Oh my. I do not know much about the update...yet.... I just downloaded it last night. I noticed a new feature on it...."Do Not Disturb". What is this wondrous thing?? Oh my....best update feature EVER. You turn on the feature and the only time your phone will ring or your text will ding is if the person calling you is in your favorites list!! Oh, you can see that they called when you turn on your phone....but you never got rudely interrupted. Heaven sounds a lot like this! My phone is so quiet and I am so at peace.
Of course, this means that if you are NOT on my favorites list, I will miss your call...leave a message....I'll call you back..........maybe.
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