{"id":4863,"date":"2020-01-16T17:09:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T01:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetnl.org\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2024-01-29T17:45:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T01:45:38","slug":"if-mother-teresa-had-a-social-media-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/2020\/01\/16\/if-mother-teresa-had-a-social-media-account\/","title":{"rendered":"If Mother Teresa had a social media account&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While this comes from the world of golf, there is some broader <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"sage advice  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/ryan-palmer-is-the-latest-example-of-why-pro-golfers-should-never-engage-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\">sage advice <\/a>about social media engagement. In particular I appreciated this quote from David Winkle, who is a sports agent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cIf Mother Teresa had an Instagram,\u201d Winkle said, \u201ceven\u00a0<em>she<\/em>\u00a0would be abused by a sick few. No one is immune to creepy social-media trolls who just can\u2019t wait to pounce, and have their own issues and axes to grind. There\u2019s so much toxicity out there, based in jealousy or wrongful perception, and they can\u2019t wait to tear you down.\u201d<\/p><cite>David Winkle, from Shane Ryan piece at golfdigest.com<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The article has some interesting examples and advice that I can boil down to one thought: <em>don&#8217;t read the comments<\/em>. Of course this runs somewhat counter to the whole point of social media, but sometimes survival is more important than any imagined rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this comes from the world of golf, there is some broader sage advice about social media engagement. In particular I appreciated this quote from David Winkle, who is a sports agent: \u201cIf Mother Teresa had an Instagram,\u201d Winkle said, \u201ceven\u00a0she\u00a0would be abused by a sick few. No one is immune to creepy social-media trolls&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6641,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions\/6641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nostatic.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}