Several weeks ago a friend of mine wrote a really insightful post on Facebook. It was about when to do status updates and share other media in Facebook.

His point was: does everything I do have to be scanned in my mind as a potential update on Facebook? Let it not be so, he said.

I commented back that the way I work with this is giving myself permission to share anything, but only share what moves me. By move, I don’t necessarily mean emotionally, but at all levels.

These two rules break the tension between what I’m doing and what I may do in Facebook (or in any other app).

Yesterday, I came across this quote by D.H. Lawrence (. . . poor D.H., one of those brilliant people we only recognize after death), that captured this mode of communication, perfectly.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot. – D. H. Lawrence

Say it hot.

Timeless is this statement regarding communication, no doubt, but prescient for the world of social media that we find ourselves in now.

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