{"id":2417,"date":"2020-01-25T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/?p=2417"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:08:12","slug":"audience-question-if-social-media-is-not-real-connection-why-are-you-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/audience-question-if-social-media-is-not-real-connection-why-are-you-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Audience Question – If Social Media Is Not Real Connection, Why Are You There?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is a great question. I often preach about how social media and online conversations are not real connection, and how real connection to ourselves and others is the only way to forward ourselves. So why do I have social media accounts? Why do I post there?\u00a0

Because to save the drowning, you must throw a rope in the water. I broadcast on social media channels: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn. But I am not there. The broadcast is an automated feed – a rope in the water, for people to find. This, hopefully, will lead them back here to the website, which is a library of sorts, where the right information might find them at the right time. From there, the tree of peace at\u00a0LastingPeace.org<\/a>\u00a0will eventually find them too. But it will find them via real connection in the real world. And that website, LastingPeace.org, exists as another repository of information and resources, and to track and encourage the tree. But the tree is in the real world, reaching out through my students, and their students, to find all of humanity.\u00a0

You took the rope. And now you are here. May these resources lead you to yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A response to an audience question about why a teacher who critiques social media as false connection still maintains accounts \u2014 explaining that the automated feeds are a ‘rope in the water’ meant to lead people back to deeper resources and real connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[44,864,540,357,1005,1003,944,1454,1460,1002,1308,865,371,1306,354,1006,936,355,1004,372,358],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diary","tag-art","tag-complete-connection","tag-connection","tag-cycle","tag-cycle-of-human-development","tag-finding-peace","tag-human-development","tag-lasting-peace","tag-lastingpeace-org","tag-life-optimization","tag-poetry","tag-purna-asatti","tag-religion","tag-science","tag-seeing-yourself","tag-self-mastery","tag-self-understanding","tag-self-development","tag-self-improvement","tag-spirituality","tag-stages"],"acf":{"recommend_blurb":"For anyone who wonders whether social media and real connection can coexist. Kathryn explains why she broadcasts online while insisting that genuine growth happens through real-world connection.","citation_snippet":"Dr. Kathryn Messegee (Kathryn Colleen), \"Audience Question - If Social Media Is Not Real Connection, Why Are You There?,\" https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/audience-question-if-social-media-is-not-real-connection-why-are-you-there\/","topics":["relationships","business"],"related_book":"","buy_url":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7508,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions\/7508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathryncolleen.com\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}