Facebook

  • Thread starter Thread starter seanom
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
Well, WarriorMonk, for my part I hope I haven’t overindulged myself with this “conversation.” From your standpoint [SARCASM] self-denial might be the rampant scourge of our era.[/SARCASM] If anyone troubles to read the entire thread, our series of exchanges could be an object lesson. The e-mail-like format of the message board might indeed be as odious as the instant-message-like, real-time software of Facebook… just slower. At least there’s an edit window after which verbal transactions become permanent here at the Catholic Answers message board. Facebook caters to those who retroactively scrub their own part of a given dialogue that took place, which often leaves readers with half a story.

If your previous post (where you minimize faith in miracles, and infer that TV and Facebook are as essential to human sustenance as eating food) is any indication of your religious interaction on Facebook, then just perhaps the Lord could get by without your “help.” 👍

The platitude “everything in moderation” and the expression “it’s all good” are insidious manifestations of The Dictatorship of Relativism. The loss of the sense of sin - the true scourge of our times - seduces people to live in gray areas, and explain away any bad fallout because (if one searches hard enough) some good can be effected.

With that I’ll exit the “discussion” on this subject.
 
groovsmyth said:
If your previous post (where you minimize faith in miracles, and infer that TV and Facebook are as essential to human sustenance as eating food) is any indication of your religious interaction on Facebook, then just perhaps the Lord could get by without your “help.” 👍
Click to expand...
I do not discuss religion or politics on Facebook. The majority of people address these issues with emotions, and the resultant engagements are generally nasty, raise each party’s anger level, and wastes one’s time. I will also boot people off my friend list if they discuss these issues in a nasty manner.

My FB activity is limited to my hobbies and business, and it allows very widespread interaction between my peers. What used to take days of planning now can be as quick as a few seconds in the form of an event notification.

Yes, people can abuse FB and other social media. But that’s been true of all things for all time.
 
groovsmyth said:
Television and Facebook are two of which people continue to partake, come what may. It’s like drinking from a poisoned well. One thinks one is sophisticated and can avoid the poison. But it continues to build up in you nonetheless.
Click to expand...
One man’s poison is another man’s meat. 👍
groovsmyth said:
At the same time we venerate saints like Thérèse, a cloistered Carmelite, and yet criticize a dedicated avoidance of worldly pursuits and characterize it as “running away from life.”
Click to expand...
I’m sorry but last time I checked, living life like a cloistered Carmelite is just one of the many callings a person can have. Who is this guy to tell anyone what that is? :ehh:
TheWarriorMonk said:
My FB activity is limited to my hobbies and business, and it allows very widespread interaction between my peers. What used to take days of planning now can be as quick as a few seconds in the form of an event notification.
Click to expand...
FB has definitely made an impact on using social media as a business tool. It’s utilized by PR, marketing, customer service etc.

Granted, its not perfect though. On the other hand, I for one find a stronger calling in using Facebook for business than too coop up in the convent life.
 
Thank you for posting this question. I have struggled with it. I only use Facebook to play Scrabble. I also post videos from Michael Voris and other Catholic videos. I “liked” G.K. Chesterton on my page so my friends can see a Chesterton quote daily. I treat Facebook like YouTube. Why should we leave the airwaves to heretics and non-believers? Let us fight them using their own weapons against them.
 
groovsmyth said:
Should you avoid Facebook? …IMHO YES!

We live in a time in history where the loss of the sense of sin endangers our immortal souls. The Post-Modern secularist worldview permeates your surroundings and each of us is in danger of being influenced even before conscious perception of it happening. It is increasingly more difficult to live in this world without becoming OF it. Many do not realize the seriousness of the peril.

Disconnect the cable/satellite and TURN OFF the TV as well. You already know it is rife with ideology incompatible with the worldview you profess. It daily bombards you with propaganda that is contrary to God and his precepts. It aggressively spoonfeeds. You passively consume.

Facebook?

I didn’t see the film until after I closed my Facebook acount. But the people who still run it are “Progressives” intent on social engineering. Their decisions reflect this. They allow messages that support their worldview and block or remove those that do not

Simply deactivating is not enough. You must specifically request them to remove your account. Even then, they have a “waiting period” before they proceed. They taunt/tempt/seduce you with the very contacts/friends that the system tracks in order to remind you of who you are “leaving behind” and badger you with the fear of loss… that you will be “out of touch”… a veritable pariah.
Click to expand...
Our president…businesses…teachers and some priests are not very ethical. Should we avoid living? After all much of our food is produced unethically. The air we breath is polluted unethically. I think you’re a bit extreme with this view.

God bless
 
I think using FB is fine. Block the “friends” who post things you are uncomfortable with. We are social and intelligent creatures. We should be able to use FB in moderation and for good clean fun.
As far as religious and political discussions, I don’t think you’re ever going to change someone’s mind by having a discussion on the internet. If you’d like to post your view of something, that’s good but getting into heated discussions on the internet (any forum) is usually a waste of time with someone who just wants to argue their own point. (At least that’s what I’ve observed.)
TV, although it can be toxic and addicting, can also be useful. I was snowed in recently and was still be able to watch Mass on TV, which I wouldn’t have been able to if I had written off TV as the devil’s tool.
Isolating yourself in a cloistered community is a vocation, a calling from God. It is not being afraid of the world. If our vocation involves interacting in the world, I think we ought to learn skills to use worldly things wisely and for good purposes.
 
polki said:
I think using FB is fine. Block the “friends” who post things you are uncomfortable with. We are social and intelligent creatures. We should be able to use FB in moderation and for good clean fun.
As far as religious and political discussions, I don’t think you’re ever going to change someone’s mind by having a discussion on the internet. If you’d like to post your view of something, that’s good but getting into heated discussions on the internet (any forum) is usually a waste of time with someone who just wants to argue their own point. (At least that’s what I’ve observed.)
TV, although it can be toxic and addicting, can also be useful. I was snowed in recently and was still be able to watch Mass on TV, which I wouldn’t have been able to if I had written off TV as the devil’s tool.
Isolating yourself in a cloistered community is a vocation, a calling from God. It is not being afraid of the world. If our vocation involves interacting in the world, I think we ought to learn skills to use worldly things wisely and for good purposes.
Click to expand...
Very good! We have no reason to fear progress. It is how we use it. Burying our head in the sand is the antithesis of what Christ taught.
 
It’s whatever you make of it; unhealthy voyeuristic entertainment or merely a convenient tool for keeping in touch with friends (is there as issue with that?) Sure it can be addictive, but then so can forums such as these.

If people are posting offensive or controversial updates then you can simply de-friend them or block their updates from appearing on your news feed.
 
Social media is an oxymoron. You aren’t being truly social unless you meet with someone in person and have a real conversation with them. At least talking on the phone, there are some hints in your voice about what your mood is and how you are saying something that affects the meaning of what is said. I suggest that running your own web site on your own private equipment is far better than using facebook. Social media is a positive phenomenon if it facilitates healthy interaction between people who would otherwise never interact.

There is an issue with the Internet currently in that those who tend to be immoral also tend to be the loudest and have the most influence. Anti Catholics have gotten me thrown out of various forums online that I should be a part of because I’m a computer scientist. I cannot for example participate on a Linux list based in Portland Oregon because of religious discrimination that I tried to fight. Instead of hearing, “you were discriminated against,” I got kicked off and told to never come back or face possible police action. I’m on another Linux list, but the group isn’t local. The Internet seems to favor extremism and if you get in trouble online you stay in trouble for an incredibly long time potentially.

I’m kicked off of the ReactOS forum boards, ReactOS is a free operating system that is being developed to replace Microsoft Windows. It was religious discrimination again that got me in trouble with the moderators and eventually got me kicked out. It is easier to discrimate across the Internet than it is to discriminate one on one where I suppose International law will have to eventually catch up.

Facebook is a monopoly, what are the values of the people who own and host it?
 
I just de-friended another person today. It’s one thing to have an opinion regarding this gay marriage stuff in the U.S. that’s different from mine. It’s another to do wholesale bashing of other’s religions in the most vile of terms. This local “entertainer” just lost a fan.

Just thinking about it, FB allows one to find and sort through friends real quick. People that might be polite in person sometimes turn out to be real idiots on the Internet. FB allows me to spend less time finding out what people are really like and who I want to associate with.
 
nute said:
Facebook is a monopoly, what are the values of the people who own and host it?
Click to expand...
Perhaps we Catholics need some of our own computer scientists to get together and create a system for us?
 
I love that idea. It would be great to have online friends who share the same faith. As it is, even some of my Catholic fb friends seem prone to popular opinion when it comes to so many life issues - homosexuality, abortion and birth control, the question of priests marrying, etc. In fact, I get much more support when engaging about these topics from my Protestant fb friends. Something amiss there.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top