A very good Monday to you, girls and boys. A very good Monday, indeed.
I hope you had a restful weekend. Today is another edition of our “one word monologue.” If you’re new with us, please read the rules on how to play.
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The word for today is . . .
that’s right
Are You in the Wilderness?
Facebook is where I’ve met most of the “Revolutionaries” I now know. The Lord provided an immediate connection for me, and I have now gained quite a few friends who I may even get to meet in real life (I’ve met two of them so far.”
I say Hallelujah to Facebook. It is such a pleasure to be able to freely write scripture into my Status bar and know that God’s words are accomplishing their work in the lives of the people who read them. I love sharing Christ by whatever means He provides and Facebook is a way fun place!
Ah, FACEBOOK…
Whereas MYSPACE was but a weak and beggarly shadow, FACEBOOK has been revealed to be the true substance!
I love this.
Facebook reminds me of your new article, Frank–the one about being “in the wilderness.” Facebook is the wilderness to me. The desert is much less confusing. Perhaps my desert will one day become a garden, but it might take a while. BTW, I only ever joined because of you. 😉
FROG
Facebook is the place where I am able to connect with friends, my family, and extended family. I am able to comment on their “status” with wisdom from God’s Word and do that regularly as a ministry opportunity to them. I am almost 50 years old and have been a servant of Christ since 1974, so I feel I have lost some of the “reality” of this world’s system — I sure don’t miss it! Facebook helps me to see first hand what the “world” is really like and how much prayer is needed for my saved and unsaved relatives. Based on many of their posts, I can see how much delusion and sin is needed to be repented of, and realize that is only a very minute percentage of what God sees and must grieve Him greatly.
facebook… was telling someone the other day that I feel more in touch with the people in my previous city since connecting with them on FB, than I did when I lived there. I don’t know if that’s a commentary on FB, or on my friends in that city…
I enjoy. It really does help me keep in touch with folks, and since I have friends scattered to the four corners (not to mention occasionally being scatter to the 4 corners myself), that’s very helpful. Better than email for keeping in touch. Although I will have to say some of the applications are driving me nuts. I have friends who send me 1 zillion plants a day for the Greenspot or whatever it’s called. And get a bit tired of pieces of flair, and flowers, etc, etc. It’s kind of like the sappy emails that people send to their entire list, telling you they are sending you a hug because they are thinking of you, but really you are just on some massive distribution list, and they are not thinking of you at all. Would rather get two words written directly to me than some mass mailing sap (ok that’s my soap box for the day).
But other than that, I love FB. And have reconnected with several long lost friends that way. that makes it worth it alone.
The new form of email. messages + chat + status + pictures + games = facebook > email.
Unfortunately, face book is blocked at my work (I’m a high school teacher) Due to a state department mandate because some teacher and student had some kind of inappropriate outside of school contact on face book. The same kind of thing happens in emails and on written paper. Are those the next things to be banned?
FROG
“Facebook” is something the company I work for (Yahoo!) wishes they could have bought. I enjoy it as a tool to network with old acquaintances that I would probably not be in contact with otherwise. It is no substitute for “face to face” fellowship but it does broaden our communication base. Being new to my area, I’ve found it to be a good medium for locating other Christians in the area, with the hopes of starting or finding a local fellowship of believers. If you allow it however it can become a “time bandit”.
A good tool to find old friends, but a definite tempting time waster for myself. I would rather spend my time building His Church in face to face relationships. But, if someone can use it for good… do it! I cannot.
Facebook is kind of like wine. A little with good friends is fantastic, but too much by yourself or with strangers is a bad, bad thing.
Addictive…fun…great tool for re-connecting with old friends…great for touching base with current & new friends…Addictive…provides pseudo conversations for a pseudo community with pseudo relationships…Addictive…did I mention Addictive? :>)
FACE-book puts FACEs on people I haven’t seen for years. It lets me see the FACE of Jesus on extraordinary people I have never met, but who are drawing me closer to Him. FACE-book…I can FACE it…even when I am FACEd with messes I have made and wrong interpretations I have defended in the past and horrible typos I make now.
FROG
Facebook has had an amazing impact on my life. It has become my avenue for putting the pieces of my life back together that time and life has scattered. It also allows me to remember that I am surrounded by a “great cloud” of wise persons, who are not all part of my present moment.
Facebook has become a new ear for me and a new voice for me to find the way to relationships I care about/need/need me. I am able to identify myself to the world in profile according to my “better angels”, and am not limited by the age and appearance categories that immediately proscribe me in other settings. I am able to reap the wisdom of the variety of people I know, and turn down or off the vanties that impede my accessing them. It is not a better way of relationship, but a necessary way of relationship for me to remain in touch with the entirety of who I am. Because who are we if not in part at least, a sum of our relationships?
Facebook delights me, frustrates me, enrages me, and makes humble all at the same time. It feels more like the Table, than any other I’ve ever been fed by Christ at, because it includes, in my case at least; those who I love to learn from, and those I agressively disagree with, those who love Jesus, and those who would never come willing to any table that Christ was believed to be at, those I barely know, and those who I love with all my life. It is my any day, all day access to the possibility of the Kingdom.
facebook. don’t even get me started! it’s the best…it’s the worst.
such a catch 22. the lazy mans way of connecting with friends. a way to spy on those “frienemies” and those you don’t want to take the effort to know “in person”. a way to connect with that “one girl from elementary that you traded stickers with”. the way to keep in more direct contact with those you don’t live everyday life with but really want to live everyday life with.
not to mention the complete breakdown i’ve had when a certain someone won’t accept my repeated friend request…what am I in, junior high?? plus, who doesn’t accept a friend request from someone you were actually good friends with?? geesh.
then there is that whole, “i really should be making my kids lunch right now, but instead i am sitting here thinking of some creative way to say that i am wasting time on the internet…”.
oh…it’s the best.
Facebook? crack addict games that I must stay AWAY from! And that danged Garden game. I checked it before I checked my email! I had to go cold turkey…It was the only way.
Other than that-it’s awesome. I love keeping in touch with friends, my whole family-including aunts uncles and cousins at college are on it and it actually deepens our relationships.
That answer makes me sound like I’m younger, but I’m 38-my youngest aunt is my age…and her kids and my kids are all teens.
Facebook friends. I wonder what it would be like if we could categorize friends like we do in real life – friends from school, friends from work, friends we’ve known since we were kids, friends we just met, friends of friends, mere acquaintances, friends who only know us through writings or internet presence, etc.
A friend of mine – the husband of a long-time friend, says this is why he doesn’t like Facebook – all friends are just friends.
I’m not sure this would be helpful on the public side of things (might make someone feel bad if you put them in one category when they thought they were in another) but on the user side of things, this might be helpful to group our friends and level of interactivity with them.