#LinkYourLife on Twitter and Facebook Every Friday
I created a hashtag on Twubs called #LinkYourLife. You can join the Twub here, or employ the tag on Twitter. Use it to share work or moments that best capture who you are. I want to know who you are. Let’s meet up every Friday to link our lives, share each other’s work, and form more lasting social media connections. Online connections can be glancing. Let’s get personal.
What you should link:
- Who you are, what you do, and a piece of work that you feel best represents you (blog, publication, poem, story, etc.).
- Work by others that you believe best captures who they are, or pieces by others that speak to your own life experience. Tell why.
- Non-pornographic images that capture a moment in your life.
- Work from friends.
#LinkYourLife is about giving a deeper reading to the work shared, so share choose the piece that is most important to you that day or week. Our group has grown significantly. Let’s be sure we share the space. It’s fine to repost your chosen link throughout the day to be sure we all have a chance to see it.
Looking for even more connection? You can:
- Follow others using the #LinkYourLife hashtag. Say hi. They are seriously the nicest group ever.
- Join the Facebook group #LinkYourLife Connection and share there throughout the week. This group is a safe, supportive, noncompetitive space for artists, survivors, advocates and allies. We host regular challenges, linkups and exchanges.
- Check out the #LinkYourLife Pinterest board.
- Tag @FridayLYL for added retweets.
Already and avid #LinkYourLifer? Add a blog button to your site to spread the word. Get your blog button here.
Be sure to retweet generously, but the goal of this hashtag share is to read and discover, so read work first. Get to know your Twitter community. Take your connections further than an RT. Link your lives off the page.
This is a cool idea! These hashtags are always a lot of fun. They’re a great way to meet new bloggers and read cool posts.
View CommentThank you, Rebecca! I hope you join in. 🙂
View CommentYou’re welcome! I definitely will. 🙂
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View CommentFantastic! Looking forward to it, Jenn!
View CommentI am definitely in… What to share? A rant? No! I think a rave is more me.
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View CommentFantastic! This makes me smile. I feel official. 🙂
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View CommentThank you, Shawna, for taking the initiative to connect bloggers with Twitter and vice versa! #LinkYourLife
Thank you for the share!
View CommentGladly!
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View CommentThank you for sharing this with me via tweet, it’s a great idea, I’m not able to join in at the moment (bereavement prevents much online activity ATM) but I will join in when I’m feeling better.
Thanks again, Kimmie @stuckinscared x
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View CommentThoughts on G*d (or not)
I am outside religious channels – no pew can hold me, now. But I was quite the follower once upon a time, until that man who put his hands on me at a church-sponsored camp-over won that award the next day. ‘For Exemplary Leadership’ it was, and I backed away from both the back of the auditorium and the Church at once. I was sixteen.
View CommentMy daughter was four when her mother committed suicide. Telling her that Carol was gone forever was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, wrenching my own torn heart as I watched a toddler swallow her breath and turn her face into my chest in silent agony. Although we weren’t church-goers, Emily had been brought up in a spiritual house. The death of her mother evoked a rage/divorce from The Creator by her, processed throughout her last 25 years into a hate/denial untouchable today. I don’t blame her, though I still believe. Just like love, betrayal is in the eye of the beholder, and what young girl who adores a parent and then loses them suddenly doesn’t hold mixed emotions?
I still pray, in my own way. I pray for understanding. I pray for help with life’s little disasters. And especially I pray for Emily – that the peace and love and commitment to my soul the Spirit gives me will one day reach her stony heart and pull the perceived dagger of betrayal from it for good, leaving her as free to choose to be a believer as I was way back at sixteen.
Michael, I’m unsure of this comment is meant to be received. I remember seeing it before, or at least some parts of it. It is very moving and beautifully told. I just don’t know how you want to connect it to this particular post. Do you have a blog? This seems like a set of defining experiences, and I believe you’d like them to be heard. Starting your own site would be a lovely way to share. I don’t find one when I try to follow your name.
View CommentSorry – I thought this blog was for stories about what makes us who we are.
View CommentIt is! But it’s for linking stories from your own site. I love your story and was thinking you must have work massed somewhere?
View CommentSadly, I'm reluctant to read self-pubs because I've had several VERY bad experiences with unreadable mush. But this book sounds great! I love when you connect with the characters and the story sweeps you up and carries you along. Might have to check it out!
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View CommentI’ve blogged in sacrament meeting before. I regularly browse the web in meetings. I would probably feel guilty about this, except that when I’ve go to stake leadership meetings, I’ll sit next to a member of the bishopric (now in the high council) and he’s always browsing the web to pass the time. (If we can’t use other people in our ward to gauge our level of salvation, then what good is organized religion?)
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View CommentYo, that’s what’s up truthfully.
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View CommentNice idea. Always keen on joining in link ups.
View CommentWe’ll be so happy to have you. 🙂
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