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Social media often gets a bad rap so should Christian use it ?

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It is a choice to be on Social media. Christians should be aware of the negative aspects of it. We need to remember that there are many atheists and things on Social media that a genuine born again Christian can be subject to. There is a positive aspect of Social media and that is a Christian can post things for God. People like to stay connected with their friends and relatives who they do not often see. I have chosen to stay off of social media. 

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I have enjoyed electronics for decades.  I worked in a Savings and Loan that had computers in 1975 and that got me started!

Email was my friend when all we had was email.  I would tell everyone, "You check you mail box every day why would you not check your email box?"  I loved the movie "You've Got Mail!" 

I joined Facebook on July 29, 2008 after waiting a couple of years to see what it was all about and then got my family on it.  Now I do not enjoy it as much because so many people just repost 20 or 30 other things daily and have very little to say on a personal level.  The ads drive me crazy now that almost every other post is an ad. My grandkids tend to use Instagram so I check it a couple times a week just so I can see the photos.  I've been thrown off Twitter two times so I have learned to stay away since I cannot seem to keep my mouth shut about controversial issues and my stance on certain things.  I have been anti-government since Vietnam when they drafted and killed several of my 18 year old friends.  I have very conservative beliefs so those get me into trouble on social media.  Even here on Worthy, since we do not all believe the same about many things.

My basic opinion: Social Media is extremely anti-social today and has ruined normal, everyday conversation for a couple of generations.  If the internet went down today I would still be able to function in the old fashioned ways of course.  I would miss all of you though but hopefully we would still have email!  Email started in 1971 but I did not do my first emails until 1975 at the S&L.  At home we started computing at home with a Commodore 64 but home internet did not come to our rural town until the the early 1990's and that was a dial-up connection.  Our first computer system was a Micron and we have been online since then so close to 30 years.  Electronics can be wonderful tools when used properly.

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3 hours ago, Mike Mclees said:

Social media often gets a bad rap so should Christian use it ?

Is this Christian Forum considered to be social media..? 😀

If so...I'm happy using this site. I'm not on FaceBook or Twitter etc etc... Not a fan...

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2 hours ago, B-B said:

Is this Christian Forum considered to be social media..?

yes it is

 

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2 hours ago, debrakay said:

I have enjoyed electronics for decades.  I worked in a Savings and Loan that had computers in 1975 and that got me started!

Email was my friend when all we had was email.  I would tell everyone, "You check you mail box every day why would you not check your email box?"  I loved the movie "You've Got Mail!" 

I joined Facebook on July 29, 2008 after waiting a couple of years to see what it was all about and then got my family on it.  Now I do not enjoy it as much because so many people just repost 20 or 30 other things daily and have very little to say on a personal level.  The ads drive me crazy now that almost every other post is an ad. My grandkids tend to use Instagram so I check it a couple times a week just so I can see the photos.  I've been thrown off Twitter two times so I have learned to stay away since I cannot seem to keep my mouth shut about controversial issues and my stance on certain things.  I have been anti-government since Vietnam when they drafted and killed several of my 18 year old friends.  I have very conservative beliefs so those get me into trouble on social media.  Even here on Worthy, since we do not all believe the same about many things.

My basic opinion: Social Media is extremely anti-social today and has ruined normal, everyday conversation for a couple of generations.  If the internet went down today I would still be able to function in the old fashioned ways of course.  I would miss all of you though but hopefully we would still have email!  Email started in 1971 but I did not do my first emails until 1975 at the S&L.  At home we started computing at home with a Commodore 64 but home internet did not come to our rural town until the the early 1990's and that was a dial-up connection.  Our first computer system was a Micron and we have been online since then so close to 30 years.  Electronics can be wonderful tools when used properly.

"You've Got Mail" was also one of my favorite movies years ago. Remember AOL? If you had email it would say " you've got mail". I did not have a computer at home for a long time. I had one at work. 

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Worthy is considered social media and there are unbelievers and counterfeit Christians on Worthy.

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Social media good or bad

YES!.....

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TV, movies, computers, social media, magazine, music, newspapers, news stations, radio, ....

...some of it is NOT for Christians.  

Some of it is benign.

Use the wisdom of God for discernment and stay away from what is evil and enjoy/fellowship/work with what can be helpful.

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6 hours ago, Mike Mclees said:

Social media often gets a bad rap so should Christian use it ?

Hmm I can't answer that for anyone but me so I don't use it. I was using Facebook for a little while but things they did like banning what some believers posted about Christ got gets banned and what they stand for and believe I can't be apart of. I stopped using it. All the other ones...nope never use them. My wife never has.. why she does not haha she just does not. We have one phone and she does not want one. A phone I always mostly forget to take lol

Now some love to just talk with friends show all kinds of things to each other praise GOD. If something is of this part of this world why am I there or  doing it? Not the same but its what comes to mind. This place I got a job at ooh was so beautiful inside and people were nice to talk to. I would just  change the reals of the film as it was getting developed. But ...oh the song by Petra "In the likeness of you" ...but every day I got there I felt sick and the moment I left it was gone. So I dug and found it was some porn place. Oh you would never have known what they do in the back ground.

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