Fraternal correction: when is it an obligation

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Hello,
I might be scrupulous.

I previously posted a question asking about correcting others when they use God’s name in vain. The problem is that almost everyone says it, and I really don’T want to go on correcting everyone.

For exemple, if someone on social media writes like OM… in their posts, which hapened last week and I ignored, do I have to correct them? What if they’re Christian , but don’t know that it’s a sin? It seems very awkward to correct them when I haven’t spoken to them for a while, and the thing is that most of them, I think, don’t even know that it’s sinful.

I don’t know if I should start correcting them.

How often should I correct people in a place where I keep hearing this? What about when it’s on social media? Do I send a private message to the person, informing them that it’s a sin?

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I don’t know if I should start correcting them, but at the same time, I fear that I might’ve committed a mortal sin last week by not doing so.

How often should I correct people in a place where I keep hearing this? What about when it’s on social media? Do I send a private message to the person, informing them that it’s a sin?
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No, really you shouldn’t. Among other things, the word “God” is not actually the Lord’s name, so the sinfulness of the phrase is not black and white.
 
he word “God” is not actually the Lord’s name, so the sinfulness of the phrase is not black and white.
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It is actually sinful
 
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You don’t have to police words on the internet.
When people use OMGee on the internet, they don’t know any better. Pray for them that there will be a person in their daily lives that can witness the Gospel in a powerful way. Correcting a person often makes them have the impression that Christians are intolerant and that’s working against someone who might be in their life witnessing by love. Think what is the best strategy to win them over. Carrot is better than a stick. It’s not your business to be the stick. Criticizing someone doesn’t win over friends and influence people.
 
What if they’re also Christian, but they use OM… in a social media post?
 
I’m not sure. Some people, who are friends, I might know, but the people who are mere acquaintances and I don’t see very often, I can’t really know for sure.

Should I assume, if they’re Christian, that they will change? (I fear that they might not know that it’s a sin, even if they’re Christian) But then there is the problem of how sould I correct them if they wrote this in a social media post and not in a conversation where I could just casually correct them.
 
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