CNN.com is bold to ask Can Internet communication sustain us? They have some outstanding answers!
“True friends [...] need to learn when to stop blogging and go across campus to help a friend.”
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Increasingly, young people also are realizing that things they post on their profiles can come back to haunt them when applying for school or jobs.
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“Maybe everything we thought was so great wasn’t as great as we thought,” says Tina Wells, the 20-something CEO of Buzz Marketing, a New York-based firm with young advisers all over the world. She is among those who wonder if, sometimes, simple face-to-face communication might work better.
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The focus [...] needs to be on quality communication, in all formats.
That last line is the clincher for me. That is what eMinistry is all about. It’s recognizing that people communicate in various formats using many different tools. We understand that each communication device (text message, face-to-face, phone call) all have advantages and disadvantages; we look to see what tool we should use to communicate central truths.
Who is surprised by this?
“Not I”, said the blogger.
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As one who has deactivated my Facebook account on multiple ocassions, I resonate with the idea that we are reaching the saturation point. And with additional tools like Global ConneXion (GCX), I’m definitely feeling online community overload. Which means I think the primary point we should be driving home with GCX is security, security, security - a feature Facebook and MySpace just can’t provide. Privacy, sure (to a degree). Security, not so much. I see security as the “quality communication” feature that we can provide.
On another front, Internet Communication was never meant to sustain us. Supplement, sure. Sustain, nope.
for all christians there, we know that our Lord died for us, and nobody could to pay for our sins, only our Lord Jesús. God bless you.
Mariza