"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
I don't do any of the social networking websites. I have lots of real friends. Plus many of those people are liars anyway. My sister in law and her ex husband were always one upping eachother on their competing sites. It was stupid. I know a sister in the ward that was going through a divource and check out her soon to be ex's new girlfriend on their and figured out she was married and used the info to cause trouble. Between those two stories I figured out I was better off without those sorts of distractions.
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Jason (Formerly salesortonscom)
As I walk through this earth, nothing can stop, the Duke of Mirth!
I was hating MySpace, but now I'm just apathetic. What a difference a few days makes.
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
As of two years ago, agreement among most valley of the sun stake presidents: Eeeeeevil.
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no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing... the truth of God will go forth till it has penetrated every website, sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished and the great Jehovah shall say the work is done
Facebook is the way I keep in touch with my extended family. My siblings and mother are on there, several of my aunts and uncles are - including the aunt who's living in Europe as a mission presiden't wife - and almost all of my cousins on one side of my family. It's how we share photos and news. As oldest grandchild on that side, I'm the administrator for a family site. A little while ago it was the way we organized a family fast for a cousin going in for IVF.
Because so many of my maternal clan are on there, about a month ago my grandfather signed up. His health is declining and he doesn't get out of his apartment much anymore, so e-mail, Skype and Facebook is how he stays in touch with his over-100-members posterity. My other grandma isn't on Facebook, but she's got a laptop and an e-mail address.
Facebook isn't inherently evil, anymore than the internet is evil. It's a neutral thing, and can be used for good or evil. Facebook IS bad if you've got a page full of crude applications, it's taking up a huge chunk of your time, or takes the place of your day-to-day relationships (which is also a potential danger for an online forum). Personally, I spend about 15 minutes on Facebook a day, am anti-application, and always remind myself that the internet is never truly a private place.
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They might not look it, but bunnies can really take care of themselves.
