THE PROBLEM WITH FACEBOOK

THE PROBLEM WITH FACEBOOK

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Genesis [NLT] 3:1-13 The serpent was the shrewdest of all the wild animals the Lord God had made. One day he asked the woman, “Did God really say you must not eat the fruit from any of the trees in the garden?”2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied. 3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”4 “You won’t die!” the serpent replied to the woman. 5 “God knows that your eyes will be opened as soon as you eat it, and you will be like God, knowing both good and evil.”6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too. 7 At that moment their eyes were opened, and they suddenly felt shame at their nakedness. So they sewed fig leaves together to cover themselves. 8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees. 9 Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”11 “Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?”12 The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”13 Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?”“The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”

  Results of a recent survey by the University of Michigan discovered that heavy users of Facebook have a lower than normal life-satisfaction attitude; “… the more often young adults used the social network, the less happy they felt.”

  It’s noteworthy that this is not the only study of this type that found user problems with downbeat feelings.

  Digging deeper it was found that the problem isn’t with frequenting Facebook. It’s a matter of envy and comparative thinking.

  “Comparison is the thief of joy.” wrote author Daniel James Devine. (DJD, WORLD magazine, Sept. 21, 2013)

  In another article on same page DJD informed of smartphone GPS feature. When taking photo with some new smartphones GPS *coordinates are embedded. This means bad guys with tech skills could possibly find your picture snapping kid or you. Now that’s really depressing!  

  Wait! Can we add Facebook and a Smartphone to our list of dishonest excuses for feeling and walking low? Or may it just be yet another responsibility-shifting ploy after the fashion of our fore bearers?  EBB4

*Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter all automatically erase when uploaded unless you setup to allow.