"By the time churches have fully embraced Facebook, many of their members and those they are trying to reach may have left it behind." - BPress
Jaron Lanier: “Whatever you say will be contextualized and given meaning by the way algorithms, crowds, and crowds of fake people who are actually algorithms mash it up with what other people say.” - CToday
"We all know that social media platforms amplify the voices of 'trolls,' those extraordinarily wounded psyches who seek out such venues to vent their inner demons with anger." - Russel Moore
"In a new analysis of 1 million U.S. teens, my co-authors and I looked at how teens were spending their free time and which activities correlated with happiness, and which didn’t. . . . In one experiment, people who were randomly assigned to give up Facebook for a week ended that time happier, less lonely and less depressed than those who continued to use Facebook." IntellectualTakeout
Republished from Baptist Bulletin April/May 2017 with permission. © Regular Baptist Press, all rights reserved.
by Daryl A. Neipp
In 2013, researchers conducted an online survey and discovered that 78 percent of users have experienced a rise in arguments and hostility within social media platforms.
Specific findings include these:
". . . in the digital playground that is Facebook, our inputs are binary. We either completely like something or we don't; we either completely share something or we don't."
