Social Networking and faith

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My wife and I just gave birth to our first child. Logan James. and I worry a lot about social networking and new technologies that may act as a source of temptation. I just heard a stat saying that FaceBook was the cause in 25% of all divorces!

What is the best way to approach this growing trend and how do I teach moral responsibility to my child when it comes to these technologies.

Thank you

Francis

PS. this has become an online ministry of mine recently. My wife and I created this site to spread daily prayer through social networks.
spraypray.com
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Thanks be to God for this new child. Look into the eyes of this new immortal being, so fresh out of the motherly womb, and happily laid in the fatherly arms. See the innocence of his countenance, and let it always be a reminder of our own innocence before God. If you just pray to God every day for the light and grace to guide your new and glorious son rightly, He will provide everything for your married state in life.

With regards to Facebook: I would be incredibly careful, conservative, and cautious. For all we know, the social networking craze may have died away somewhat by the time he is old enough to have used it. Still, you should always be with your son when he begins to use the internet for the first time. The massive amount of filth on this grand society is astonishing. Quasi-pornography can be transmitted via Facebook in the form of party-photographs and lewd profile pictures.

Let your faith shine forth and always have an hour of prayer with your whole family. If he sees your own goodness, virtue, and holy simplicity, he cannot do anything but follow with eyes wide open and mouth in great big smiles. Children really know what God is, ironically… it’s the adults who steal his understanding away by our cynicism! 😛 Remember, also, that the state of parenthood is a HUGE responsibility for the right faith of an immortal soul (at least before the age of reason, certainly)! It is a great burden, but the greatest burden of all was made into the greatest victory of all by a certain God-man. Ask Jesus Christ our Lord to help you, and He will lift burdens: but you must do your duty. Be a strong man for your son, and allow your wife to be a soft woman for your son. It’s about balance, moderation, simplicity, innocence, and trust. You may punish and she may pamper, but never let both do the same thing! 😃
 
frangalvez said:
Hi . I just heard a stat saying that FaceBook was the cause in 25% of all divorces!
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fb causes no divorces. neither does porn, or even adultery.
Failure to love and failure to keep marriage vows causes divorce. FB and all the rest are the excuse, not the reason, for failure to love.
 
My ex wife searched for and found her teenage sweetheart on facebook and left me and our two children after sixteen years of marriage. I really can’t say it was facebook’s fault however, because she could have looked him up in the phone book if she wanted. Facebook certainly made it easier for her though, and so it was a facilitator.

Movies could be an occasion for sin. Phone calls for that matter. Before the advent of the Internet, one had to drive to a store to buy porn, now it is much easier through the interent.

My point is, we have to evaluate these technologies for their value and risks, and allow them where appropriate while keeping them on a short leash, and be ready to reject them when they endanger our salvation and the salvation of our family.

For me, no technology is worth eternity in Hell.

-Tim-
 
I would be interested to know where this statistic about facebook’s role in divorce came from, and the research methods they used. 🤷
 
Facebook is cited as a factor rather than a cause, big difference. You could say the same about any type of communication.

This statistic has come from a group of American lawyers stating that Facebook was cited in divorce cases and specifically that the divorcees used it to facilitate affairs.

In that case, if you are concerned about Facebook - I would suggest you lock up your family members and forbid them from communicating with the outside world. If it’s not facebook used to help with affairs or to argue with your spouse, it will be text, email, phone calls, face-to face or even pigeon mail.
 
The claim that the facebook is responsible for 20% of the divorces would be possible only if the number of divorces would increase 20% since the invention of the facebook = 2004

The fact is that the divorce rate peeked in 1980 (7.9 / 1000 population (16-64 years old) in 2008 it was 5.2. People did not get better, but the number of marriages shrank from 15.9 to 10.6 in the same time

census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s1335.pdf

Today the facebook is the medium for social interaction, and naturaly lawyers make every effort to blame and sue the facebook for divorces but the truth is that the evil lays in people not in a particular medium. The facebook is wrong, because the main reason its invention is to collect centralized information on the people, and thus promote dictatorship.
 
I’m not sure how collecting information on people leads to dictatorship, and I’m definitely not sure how Facebook is related to dictatorship at all. 🤷
 
Honestly? I wouldn’t worry about it with a newborn. I had fleeting thoughts of all kinds of dread/plans (computer and other) when my daughter was born last year, but I learned to let go. Not that it’s wrong to plan ahead, and certainly if you had an older child it would be something to be considered…BUT technology is changing so fast that I really doubt any plans you make now, whether specific to FB, or the internet more generally, would have any relevance on what will be around by the time it’s an issue for your son. Leave it until you can actually do something about it!
 
LemonAndLime said:
I’m not sure how collecting information on people leads to dictatorship, and I’m definitely not sure how Facebook is related to dictatorship at all. 🤷
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The Third Reich introduced the Registration form (everyone withing three days had to register after moving, and everyone had to carry that form (with all the info about the person) with him always

The Communist introduced the Personal Identity Card, what also everyone had to carry with him always

To control people requires stable information about them.

I am still astonished that freedom loving Americans let the Social Security number turn to the universal identifier by Reagan in 1982. Now the data collection became increasingly more sophisticated.
 
laszlo said:
The Third Reich introduced the Registration form (everyone withing three days had to register after moving, and everyone had to carry that form (with all the info about the person) with him always

The Communist introduced the Personal Identity Card, what also everyone had to carry with him always

To control people requires stable information about them.

I am still astonished that freedom loving Americans let the Social Security number turn to the universal identifier by Reagan in 1982. Now the data collection became increasingly more sophisticated.
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The Third Reich also created an army. Does having an army lead to dictatorship?

The Third Reich banned abortions. Does banning abortions lead to dictatorship?

To control people requires information yes. However, to be an effective government that keeps people happy also needs information.

How can you expect a democratic government to know what the people want if it doesn’t collect information about them? 🤷
 
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