Adam McLane

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  • Everything You Post Online is Ultimately Public

    Everything You Post Online is Ultimately Public

  • Am I just a social media guy?

    Am I just a social media guy?

    Yesterday I spoke in 3 services at The Place in Wickenburg, Arizona. It’d been a long time since I’d done that… it was really fun. And it was fun to be reminded that I like that and I’m not bad at it. The fact is that I don’t get a lot of requests to teach…

  • Does Technology Diminish Social Skills?

    Does Technology Diminish Social Skills?

    “The problem with all of this technology is that kids today can’t survive in the real world. They don’t have the social skills they need.” I hear this a lot from parents at my social media workshops. And I am empathetic to the logic. Yet I disagree with the sentiment.

  • My Jaw is Tired

    It’s been a long week. The kids went back to school. And while I know I’m supposed to celebrate this with relief that those kids are finally out of my hair, the truth is I’d rather have them home. And the transition from having them home over break to getting back into the routine of…

  • PSA on Comments

    Just a quick little announcement regarding comments on the Snapchat piece. In the past 8-9 days I’ve received and responded to hundreds of comments. Simple fact is I need a break. I have other things going on in my life that are more important. I’m a dad. My kids are more important than my blog.…

  • A Deep Breath and a New Year

    A Deep Breath and a New Year

    It started on Saturday. Kristen and I were driving back from a couple days in Joshua Tree. We stopped to get a date shake and I checked my email. Comments from a post I wrote in August? That’s weird.

  • Should I be worried about Ask.fm?

    Every once in a while a parent or youth worker will ask me about Ask.fm. I thought it’d be useful to share a little bit about this smallish social network and how to help your teenager use it in a way that won’t lead them to getting hurt. What is Ask.fm?

  • Which social media apps are middle schoolers using right now?

    In the past week or so I’ve presented my social media workshop 16 times. That’s crazy. It’s one thing to have a talk memorized but it’s another thing for it to become your meditation. I love that content and I love the impact of the workshop. But I’m also a bit thankful to not have…

  • How to Buy A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Social Media

    I just noticed that I was quoted in Winston Ross’s article about Snapchap at The Daily Best. Here’s a link to my article called, Why You Should Delete Snapchat. Now read more than 400,000 times and shared on Facebook 40,000+ times. If you’d like to buy the book I co-authored with Mark Oestriecher, A Parent’s…

  • In Social Media You Are the Product

    You are not a social media customer, you are the product. In this post Adam McLane tells users about a change to the way Facebook delivers ads and what to do about it.