Nine things we should avoid:
1. The trend of using status updates to complain
2. Measuring your worth/identity by number of Facebook friends/Facebook interactions
3. Greater concern over forming Facebook (virtual) friends rather than real friends
4. Diminishment of face-to-face time with people/enjoying and working on real relationships
5. Dual identities (saying/doing things online you'd never do in person)
6. Hurting and excluding others (intentionally or unintentionally)
7. Facebook and online life can make you more distracted
8. Can tempt you away from your calling/work (celebrating the insignificant)
9. Thinking about yourself more than you already do.
I can think of a few other things that need to be avoided:
1. Judging others by the groups they join.
2. Feeling hurt by not being invited to 'this party' or 'that event.'
3. Checking people out to see if I am doing 'better' than them.
6 ways we can use facebook for Jesus:
1. Get back in touch with old, far-away friends in an easy way, showing them how you’ve been changed by Jesus
2. As an extension of face-to-face relationships/can be used to enhance time with people
3. To think about yourself less and others more (pray for people!)
4. To sharpen/discipline what you do with your time
5. To quickly announce/make great things happen
6. To influence other people for Jesus. Create a new culture with your status updates..
Paul instructs us to make the most of our time, because the days are evil. We're called to be redeemers, using what God has given us for Jesus. What other ways can you think of using new technologies for Jesus?
2 comments:
Are people who are actually older than high school age really worried about these things?
Measuring one's worth by how many facebook friends one has?? Honestly?
Thank you, Keith, for sharing this. I don't see how anyone can think friends are made over the Internet with people you don't know. Are we as naive as those teens who look for love over the Internet?
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