When the time comes, where they combine all social media outlets into one super-site, namely \u201cMyFaceYouTwit,\u201d perhaps I would buy into it… but until then I have my life consumed by just one venue: Facebook. We are so used to being instantly connected with everyone via impersonal forms of communication. It may be nice to know if my uncle says he is \u201con the porch right now!\u201d if I happened to have misplaced my uncle. However it seems there may be better uses for my time than browsing through a never-ending, perpetually updating, and often misrepresentative statuses of people in my virtual network of friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong. I am on Facebook a lot. Far more than I should be. Part of my job as a web developer means integrating Facebook likes and shares into websites I\u2019m developing and testing that functionality. I would try to make this my justification for being on it so much, except that in my free time I am right back on it! Am I addicted? Perhaps. Sometimes we laugh at the concept of someone being \u201caddicted to Facebook,\u201d yet addictions can be formed with anything one has an unhealthy attachment to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addictions are a form of idolatry. An idol is simply something that you devote a lot of time to, revere, and trust in more than the almighty God of heaven and earth. Some of America\u2019s idols are celebrities, material goods and wealth, entertainment, food, internet, etc… But all of these periphery \u201cthings\u201d point to the true source of our idolatry = ourselves. Is it wrong to be amused by celebrities? No. Is it wrong to have material goods and wealth? No. Is going on Facebook wrong, or indicative of idolatry? No! However, if someone looked at your life (what you focus your time, focus, reliance, and pleasure on) – what would they find?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes I feel like I need to post and\/or read my quota of status updates per day. Everyone posts and reads posts on Facebook, and I want to be a part of this \u2018status quo\u2019 to get my \u2018status quota\u2019 so to speak. If you were to ask me point blank, \u201care there more important things in life than Facebook?\u201d my answer would be \u201cof course!\u201d Yet, an objective observer of my day would find that an obscene amount of time is spent on Facebook – indicating that this social networking venue is what\u2019s truly important to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
![<\/a>acebook. We are so comfortable divulging tons of personal information about ourselves on Facebook, and yet Americans pray to God less and less.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPerhaps God wants status updates from us. Not through Facebook, but prayer. Maybe it seems like a cheesy concept, but relationships require communication and sharing. Humanly, its difficult to be engaged in conversation with someone who is generally intangible and invisible, especially when we\u2019re so used to audio and visual feedback. However, if we spent as much time telling God about our day, our goals, our feelings, and our \u2018likes\u2019 as we do telling the nebulous blob of our intangible social network, then I think that we\u2019d all be much better off!<\/p>\n\n\n\nIt may not seem exciting to this A.D.D generation of young people raised on video games and smartphones to simply \u2018pray and meditate.\u2019 Meditation does not have to mean sitting on a rug with our legs all folded up and chanting \u201comm\u201d in a melancholy drone. Meditation means thinking about an idea, entity, or groups of ideas while blocking out other distractions. Sometimes, that is really what we tend to do with social media. We could all benefit from meditating about God\u2019s ways and His word a bit more in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSo, while you\u2019re out on the web getting your status quo of statuses – remember to send them to God as well. Share your thoughts on a wall \u2018not made with hands\u2019 and on a \u2018timeline\u2019 that had no start and will have no end. Try this and perhaps you\u2019ll see more notifications in your life from the Creator of life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the time comes, where they combine all social media outlets into one super-site, namely \u201cMyFaceYouTwit,\u201d perhaps I would buy into it… but until then I have my life consumed by just one venue: Facebook. We are so used to being instantly connected with everyone via impersonal forms of communication. It may be nice to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-living","category-religion","clearfix","post-index"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/pexels-photo-951539-2.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbinrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/blog.corbdesign.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/FacebookIcon.png\"){kind=link}