According to the new book The Facebook Effect, by David Kirkpatrick, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg would sometimes look at people's online profiles during the social network's early days and guess which relationships were on the rocks—and could successfully guess about a third of the time which folks would be in new relationships a week later. "They can track a user's every keystroke and mouse click on the site," writes Tracy Clark-Flory of salon.com. "They can see whose profiles you're looking at most often, whose photos you're lingering on. The ways to see into users' lives are endless. Not only do they know far more about you than you likely realize, but Facebook might even be able to recognize things about yourself that even you have yet to realize." [salon.com, 5/18/10]
I am always amazed at what people admit to and put on their facebook pages. They use this communication medium as a confession booth, not knowing that the things they are confessing no longer remain their property, but Facebooks property, and it remains on the Internet forever..... Now contrast this to the wonderful gift of forgiveness. This is also a place that we can go and cast all of our cares, our confessions, our lives; and from our savior Jesus Christ can receive pardon. Those things we admit are no longer ours, they are Christ's and they are not held over us forever. They are deleted, they are erased and we can live a new life because of Jesus. So people lets keep Facebook clear of our confessions. Lets make our confessions to Jesus. Lets also consecrate our Facebook sites and keep them clean and able to be used for God.
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