Is Facebook advisable for meeting up with local Catholics

[metavehicle]

I’m looking for a collaborator for making YouTube videos - low-key evangelization rather than viral video. Ideally such a person would live in my locality in the UK, i haven’t “found” anyone in my own parish though.

The thing is i have a real aversion to Facebook, but i think it’s probably the only way to connect to a fellow traveller (i.e. someone who discerns that this is his vocation too) local to me. With the COVID-19 pandemic it appears a lot of the The Church’s resources are gravitating to the internet as a medium of use, expression and communication.

Basically i’m thinking out aloud as i type here. It’s what i wanted to avoid - that brand of public social media (non-anonymous Facebook), the paranoia in me makes me fear comeback in whatever form. Be that as it may.

If any one has any out-of-the-box ideas for an alternative means for connecting, or tips on what i should be doing in this regard, please reply.

God Bless,

 

[Lou2U]

You don’t necessarily have to have a Facebook account under your name, if you’re not comfortable with that. If you have a name for your youtube channel, you could also use that for Facebook.

Perhaps your church would have ideas about how to meet more Catholics? They might be able to recommend some groups to you.

 

[dscath]

Social Media is the Wild, Wild, West…anyone can be anything…I would be as careful with well intended connections on any social website whether FB or CAF (this is not a criticism of FB, or CAF)…this is not to say the websites in themselves do not serve their respective communities, I am just saying be careful! As noble as the cause of any website, individuals with less than honorable agendas can infiltrate them, and the administrators of the sites have little control over it.

 

[OKComputer]

As noble as the cause of any website, individuals with less than honorable agendas can infiltrate them, and the administrators of the sites have little control over it.

Wow, I think this might be the most perfect description of social media I’ve seen! I totally agree.

OP-Be careful. I think Facebook is pretty safe, but you want to take some common sense precautions. Meet in public, tell “real life” friends who you are meeting with, don’t go anywhere unsafe with the person, and if you are a woman do not meet anyone alone.