{"id":14448,"date":"2021-12-08T10:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14448"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:20:45","slug":"is-social-media-causing-you-to-fritter-away-genealogy-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/08\/is-social-media-causing-you-to-fritter-away-genealogy-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Social Media Causing you to Fritter Away Genealogy Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How much of your &#8220;genealogy time&#8221; do you spend on social media? Is it helping your research or hindering it. Do you make effective use of social media for your research during your &#8220;genealogy time&#8221; or are you scrolling through posts and updates that are highly distracting? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, the one drawback of being online for research tasks, database use, etc. is that other aspects of the online world are also available. Those aspects can waste time. I find it helpful to turn certain apps, programs, and notifications off. Closing out certain windows can help as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s great to reach out online for help in understanding and interpreting records, but give a thought to whether the amount of time you are &#8220;on&#8221; social media is actually beneficial to your research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not necessarily a correct answer to this. Just something to think about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try a\u00a0<em>GenealogyBank\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\">Genealogy Search<\/a>\u00a0to see what you find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much of your &#8220;genealogy time&#8221; do you spend on social media? Is it helping your research or hindering it. Do you make effective use of social media for your research during your &#8220;genealogy time&#8221; or are you scrolling through posts and updates that are highly distracting? For me, the one drawback of being online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}