just to start things...
WAR EAGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh baby, now that that's out of the way. So we've had several conversations about Facebook as a family the past couple of days. I have several questions.
1) Obviously it's not sinful to have a facebook. However, is it wise? In other words, give me good reasons to have a facebook.
2) Give me good reasons to NOT have a facebook (besides it's a waste of time. So are video games, most email correspondence and reading blogs :-)
3) When you're done talking about it (if anyone even reads my blog anymore) I'll post about it by thursday.
Peace
9 comments:
what is facebook?
I have been reconnected with numerous friends since having a facebook account. It provides an easy way to stay in contact with friends in an ever changing email address world. Are we really devoting time to talking about this?
yes...among the youth in the world (as hard as it must be for you to remember those days Joe) there are many issues being brought up about facebook...similar to how there were many issues brought up about myspace (although granted the issues brought up about myspace were brought up by Christians and heathens alike)...i hate myspace and i love facebook so I like talking about them :-)
It's not youth that is hard for me to remember, I remember it quite fondly smartass. It is the culture that debates facebook and myspace that is blessedly forgotten. :)
Whatever, if it gets you to post more than once a baseball season I'm all for it.
I think it really depends on the safety features that you can put into use. If your personal information is out there for all the world to see, then yes, it is a definate problem. Our whole family had a discussion about this kind of thing when I got a blog because my dad was concerned about safety issues.
However, if you can protect yourself, then I think it's a great idea.
Like many things in the world, facebook can be used well, and for good reasons...and it can be used poorly, and for bad reasons. Clearly it can simply be what Joe says. Yet, clearly, it can be a playground for people to revel in themselves...and that creates all kinds of problems.
"It isn't the sword that is good or evil, but the warrior who wields the sword."
Did you mean this Thursday (yesterday) or some random Thursday next year?
Ok, to give my two cents worth...I think it's pointless. And yet I love it. I feel this incessant desire to know what someone said about so and so and why someone tagged a photo of me and why someone just kissed my brother?!?!?!?!
Yet none of it is really about what I hear as the main reason a person has a facebook: to keep in touch with people.
C'mon. Is 'keeping in touch' now relegated to 'OMG, so I totally love that pic!' or other stupidly shallow comments scattered across 150 friends' pics and walls? Show me true biblical fellowship on a Facebook and I will cease my soapbox moment.
Now, if the purpose is to be totally shallow and simply enjoy being involved in other people's lives like God doesn't intend, then by all means, let's promote Facebook as much as possible!
So there you have it. Now, do I still have my Facebook? Yes. Why? Because it's fun and I force myself to spend no more than an hour a week bein' in everybody's business. ;o)
(Sorry I can't write anything brief. ;o)
With Resepect, you also don't make a very logical argument in this case. All you can say for certain, is that your interaction with Facebook has not been about keeping in touch with old friends. Might I suggest that Facebook is a tool. Some people use it for the **ahem** activity you described, others use it to talk to friends they haven't met since college or High School. Others use it as a dating service and for who knows what else.
In many respects, the argument you presented could be used for T.V., the internet, email, blogs, etc.
They all have good uses and bad uses, just like cars, food, clothes, friendship itself.
BTW, didn't Jake say he would post his thoughts on Thursday?
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