We are in the second full week of UNC's winter break, and our staff has been talking a lot about technology, screen time, and exploring questions together like the ones below...
Is your weekly screen time at a reasonable number? Or is it higher than you’d like it to be?
Is social media playing a healthy role in your life — keeping you connected to friends? Or is it playing an unhealthy role in your life — serving as a constant distraction, eating up valuable segments of your day, and leading you down the spiral of comparison and envy?
Are you ‘in control’ of your devices? Or are your devices 'controlling’ your life, in a sense?
Does the Bible, written ~2,000 years before the iPhone was invented, have substantive wisdom to help us navigate our tech-saturated world?
On Thursday, Dec. 10 our team was able to have a rich, honest conversation about technology, discernment, and living the good life with best-selling author Andy Crouch (author of The Tech-Wise Family) and his daughter Amy Crouch (current college student and author of My Tech-Wise Life: Growing Up and Making Choices in a World of Devices).
We can barely imagine our lives without technology. Tech gives us tools to connect with our friends, listen to our music, document our lives, share our opinions, and keep up with what's going on in the world. Yet it also tempts us to procrastinate, avoid deeper conversations, compare ourselves with others, and filter reality. Sometimes, it feels like our devices have a lot more control over us than we have over them. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Joined by student and young alumni co-moderators Kristina Chapple (‘22) and Peter Andringa (‘20), staff member Matt Hoehn guided discussion.