Facebook is celebrating its fifth birthday.
All Mohler has written a few reflections here. Carl Trueman has an extensive article here. I love it! It’s so wonderfully curmudgeonly.
I wrote something a while ago here. I should point out that I’ve since joined Facebook. I weakly caved in to overwhelming peer pressure! As I suspected, it’s been both a useful tool to connect with people but also an unhelpful distraction. I’ve hooked up with a number of old friends with whom I’d lost contact. It’s proved an easy way of informing lots of people of lots of things. I’m not sure they’ve taken much notice. It’s just added to the background noise of life. As Trueman has suggested, it’s taken me quite a while to get comfortable with the concept of the Facebook ‘friend’. It doesn’t mean what it says! Acquaintance or contact would be more accurate, but just less friendly!
