Mark Zuckerberg was testifying again on Capitol Hill about Facebook ads and “truth.”
This gets into the area of “free speech” and “fake news” and “false advertising” and at the end of it all we have a mess. But it’s not the mess Mark Zuckerberg created.
Continue reading “Zuckerberg, Facebook, and “truth””I have dropped away from social media for a time. Call it a “Holy Spirit timeout.” The rebuke came this morning when I was in a men’s Bible study and we were reading in 2 Timothy 2. This phrase in v. 25 stuck out:
Continue reading “A gentle rebuke”Our current era of high anxiety has been fed directly by our addiction to social media. It has given social media hackers and experts all the fuel they need to exploit and manipulate an entire culture in ways we would laugh at a generation or two ago.
Continue reading “Anxiety in the age of social media”I am tired. Weary. The news… social media… all around I am confronted with how we are behaving as Americans… as Christians…
I am tired. Weary. Continue reading “The refreshing presence of Jesus in the Word”
“Social media fast” is over for me.
To which I say with all sincerity…
“Oh, Facebook, how I have not missed you… not one iota. The junk is still there.”
To this point I’ve done somewhat well on “fasting” from social media.
But it doesn’t mean I still don’t catch “what’s hot,” because even the “news” has to report it.
I only read the headlines because I just don’t get it.
Something about a dress.
I may never go back to social media again. 🙂
I am working hard to be away from social media, in that I’m not checking it. My blog posts show up. But I’m trying to save a lot of hours, literally, by staying off social media. But I couldn’t resist this comic strip.
