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My Space: A Scary Place?

September 13, 2006

I finally took the plunge and joined My Space today. You can check it out at http://www.myspace.com/avoidingevil. I hear people talking about their My Space accounts all the time. Even my wife has had a My Space account for awhile now. I hear her talk about her comments and friends on there, so I decided to get into the loop. What's this thang all about? Now that I've perused the website and I've viewed several of the My Space profiles of people I know from around here and even some of my students I must say MY GOODNESS. It's very much like a blog. You can keep pictures on there, you can link to friends, and you can even keep a daily journal blog all under your profile. It's also a place where you can see who's getting drunk, getting high, having sex, and listen to songs about getting drunk, having sex, and getting high. The language, pictures, and content of many of these profiles are extreme. I feel kinda defiled after taking a trip on the My Space train today.

It's interesting to look at some of these profiles and see the way people act and think. I'm the type of person who tends to watch people, study them, and forumlate opinions on why they act a certain way and even perdictions of what they will most likely do next. However, when it comes to seeing some of these profiles it turns into a more depressing moment. Especially when it is some of the people I have known for years. When you watch and see the way peoples lives change and what they do outside of certain environments it is both amusing and sad. It's also life. Some survive, some don't.

"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it." - Matthew 7:13,14

Comments

Posted by: michael morgan
September 13, 2006 03:47 PM

I started a My Space account but just could not keep it up.

Posted by: Bryan
September 22, 2006 04:41 PM

The Southern Baptist Texan has a good article on myspace...unfortunately, not available online...wait...i think its a reprint from the GA state paper...http://www.christianindex.org/2451.article

anyway...i was rightthere...reading the bios of the now-young adults who were teens in my student ministry a few years ago. Then, on fire and serving God.

Today...

Alcoholic
Pothead
Gay
Cross-Dresser

The first response is to question your own effectiveness in ministry. Then you remember and realize that if you were faithful in your stewardship over your time with them, that's all you can do. they are still accountable for their own decisions.

I set up my space to observe and hopefully influence...but it's not my main priority. I have too many analog relationships (face-to-face) to fret on the digital ones.