Facebook

This is a great article on how to think biblically about Facebook! Here are the 9 potential dangers. Read on if you want to know how to love God and others through Facebook. I know that several of these negative uses hit home for me!

9 Potentially Negative Uses/Dangers of Facebook

• 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

• 6. Hurting and excluding others (intentionally or unintentionally)

• 7. Facebook and online life can make you more distracted, changes how you think/attention span

• 8. Can tempt you away from your calling/work

• 9. Thinking about yourself more than you already do

(From Buzzard Blog)