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What's the deal with FACEBOOK?

Submitted by Albert on Wed, 2007-08-29 10:08.

According to an article I just read, "never before has an Internet phenomenon swept a country like Facebook, the insanely popular social networking community with more than 2.5 million Canadian users, 75 percent of whom log on every day for an average of 29.6 minutes.  Founded three years ago by Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook has grown so popular -- and addictive, as many of its users will attest to -- bans are now commonplace in the workforce."

So, what is the big deal? Is it about social networking, connecting with old friends, OR is there more behind it?  Maybe it's about the implicit need in all of us to know and be known by others!  That maybe God created us with this need for community!

Anyways, I've been on facebook for a month now and will be preaching on it @ the Tap on Sept 9th.  I'd love to hear your thoughts, so blog away!

 

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all the same!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2007-08-29 14:05.

facebook, myspace, friendster.. they are all the same. maybe I'm just old school, but what happened to meeting each other face to face over coffee? Can facebook replace or replicate real authentic relationships?

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One of the unique benefits

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2007-08-29 15:08.

One of the unique benefits of facebook is that it forces people to be use their real names as opposed to handles required by friendster, myspace, bebo edmontononline and many other networking sites. Funny - how being yourself online has contributed to this phenonemon! For me, Facebook has created a medium for people to reconnect with "marginal" acquaintances and/or "long lost friends" in addition to people they see on a regular basis. Personally, I don't think it's popularity is in replacing or replicating authentic relationships - rather it's a neat way to reestablish contacts with people you never thought you'd see again! Where else can you catch up on years of lost time by simply looking at one page that can tell you where a person works, pictures of what's going on in their current life, reminisce about past adventures (or misadventures) - then drop a note to say "hey"?

It works both ways though - the more put on there, the more you're exposing yourself to "creepers"....

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Facebooker for Jesus!

Submitted by jeffreyyeung on Wed, 2007-08-29 17:06.

Several weeks ago, when Albert Wu ended up grabbing material off my Facebook page for Sunday worship service, it made me realize that God can use any medium (yes, even Facebook) for His glory!

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facebook is good

Submitted by dawonger on Wed, 2007-08-29 22:12.

for me personally, i think facebook is a great tool.

i think that people tend to open up more on facebook and even if its just a "hey, hows it going" wall post, you'll generally get more than a "good, how bout u?" response that we normally see in conversation. may end up talking about things that wouldnt normally come up in casual conversation.

we seem to be less guarded, which could be good or bad, behind a computer screen

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face book

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2007-08-30 21:12.

For me face book has been a great way to connect with a lot of people with whom I haven't heard from in a long time going back 20 or so years! It's also a great way to say a quick hi when you are very busy and can't get to the phone but are thinking about someone.
One of the best things for me is it has allowed me to connect with family members who have been out of my life for many years due to a family conflict. I get so excited when I can talk to a cousin or an aunt I haven't spoken with in years and see what has been happening in their lives. It often brings me to tears to see what I have missed. Thanks to face book I can re-connect with them and my parents will never know unless they decide to become "super cool" and join face book (hope not).

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Heh heh, then my dad must be

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2007-08-31 08:52.

Heh heh, then my dad must be "super cool" because he joined Facebook too. He even asked me how to "tag" photos! Ha ha!

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In today's generation people

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-09-04 01:51.

In today's generation people want to connect using the computer, long gone are the days of pen, paper and mail. Emails are faster than mail, and talking over an internet site seems easier than making a phone call these days. Facebook doesn't build community, but it does build bridges and links to those who would otherwise never really talk to or get to know if we didn't have the internet. If they ever made a Christbook I wonder if it would turn into a multi million dollar website as well...Anytime something gets popular everyone wants to be a part of it, that's how our society today works. Maybe a church online would be the next big thing, just sign in, watch, listen and then have webcam to see others after service. We would never need to leave our house.

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Online community -- is it possible?

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2007-10-07 09:29.

Finding 'unhurried' time with others can be difficult in this day -- when life feels like it's running in fastforward, even when you're brain and body isn't. It's true that Facebook puts two computer screens between people but it also allows people to communicate at any convenient time. As the world has become a global village and friends are across time zones, maybe Facebook helps keep those connections. Messages can be more thoughtful.. just because the person writing them has found time to sit and write it -- rather than the day-to-day superficial "how are you? .... I'm fine" type interactions.

How far can we take this cyberspace community? I don't know.

There is something to be said about meeting face to face. There are nuances of human interaction that are lost and cannot be recreated through the computer. At the same time, it may just be one of the many pieces to the puzzle that will hold together and complete the communities we have in the age of ultra-fast and "ultra-faster" computers, wireless everything, planes to nearly every country you can name, and workplaces that exist only in this place we call cyberspace.

Take this string of blogs... are we not communicating? learning? continuing our interactions as a community through this website?
Hmmmm.....

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