Facebook-- An on-line social networking site
After a few months of debating and trying to find time to get a Facebook site, I signed up on Thursday night. One could spend literally hours on this social network site. I signed up and put out friend requests and put up pictures, etc.. I have put up 2 events (Flatfoot 56 concert and the Veritas worship on the 30th) and I have put together a Veritas group. I've gotten some friends and have some posts on my wall. But something has nagged me since signing up.
Facebook is a social networking website. It is suppose to help social networks. I feel that it does that to a point. I still believe the best way to develop true community isn't to post something on someone's wall, e-mail them, IM them, or call them on a Cell phone. I truly believe the best way to build community and get to know others is to spend actual time face to face with them. To sit across a table sharing a meal, to pray with them, to hang out with them, and just be together. That's why I believe our Veritas House Churches are so important to the life and ministry. Last night we sat around the table together catching up on life. But I think the most signficant thing happened when we shared the bread and cup and remembered what Christ did for us. We passed around the bread and the juice and then shared how the other has been a blessing in our lives. The person who shared the blessing to me spoke volumes into my life and encouraged me beyond what she could even know or realize...it made an true impact on my life and ministry.
So yeah Facebook is okay and I will continue to post things on people's wall, but in the end if it doesn't help build better face to face time, it isn't worth it. So give me face to face time more than Facebook time.
Facebook is a social networking website. It is suppose to help social networks. I feel that it does that to a point. I still believe the best way to develop true community isn't to post something on someone's wall, e-mail them, IM them, or call them on a Cell phone. I truly believe the best way to build community and get to know others is to spend actual time face to face with them. To sit across a table sharing a meal, to pray with them, to hang out with them, and just be together. That's why I believe our Veritas House Churches are so important to the life and ministry. Last night we sat around the table together catching up on life. But I think the most signficant thing happened when we shared the bread and cup and remembered what Christ did for us. We passed around the bread and the juice and then shared how the other has been a blessing in our lives. The person who shared the blessing to me spoke volumes into my life and encouraged me beyond what she could even know or realize...it made an true impact on my life and ministry.
So yeah Facebook is okay and I will continue to post things on people's wall, but in the end if it doesn't help build better face to face time, it isn't worth it. So give me face to face time more than Facebook time.
1 Comments:
Hey Man,
You gotta do both... one leads to the other... can't avoid facebook, but it is just the first date... and one step of many toward that sacred face to face! You are right that nothing substitutes for face to face... but sometimes, we need extra steps along the way... that's what facebook and myspace are... steps toward the "real" thing!
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