I feel like a dinosaur because I can remember when the internet was
really lame and when e-mail was a novelty. When I was a child I actually
used 8-track tapes. If you don’t know what that is, Google it! Anyway,
one of the things that has come about with the internet is social media,
things like Twitter and the Facebooks (yes, I know that it’s really
called Facebook). It used to be that people talked with their friends on
the phone and kept their deepest darkest thoughts in their journal in
their nightstand. Now, people Tweet and post all sorts of things to
Facebook. Personally, I have no interest in such things. Why would
anyone care whether I just hit Starbucks and had a
half-calf-decaf-mocah-choca-ya-ya? But just because I personally don’t
care about or have interest in social media doesn’t mean that I’m
totally ignorant about social media or that it has no use for the
pastorate.
For reasons that still bewilder me, some people don’t seem to realize that the interweb is called the world wide
web for a good reason—anyone can read what you post or tweet, unless
you keep things password protected or private through your settings,
though Facebook can take your pictures and use them if they want (don’t
get me started on that one). People post all sorts of things on-line
that, to be frank, makes me question their wisdom. How does all of this
bear upon the pastor and his congregation, you ask? Continua at Valiant for Truth
See Also: Facebook friends and sin
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