Comments on: Quote: How is your desire for ‘virtual connectedness’ these days? http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/quote-how-is-your-desire-for-virtual-connectedness-these-days/ A Catholic Social Commentary Tue, 22 May 2012 17:58:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dean Soto http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/quote-how-is-your-desire-for-virtual-connectedness-these-days/comment-page-1/#comment-16825 Dean Soto Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:26:31 +0000 http://www.fallibleblogma.com/?p=2749#comment-16825 I have to disagree with Bill. As with any "Tool" whether it is used for good or evil is determined by the user. Social media is "cold" if we make it cold. But if you use social media to build authentic relationships with like-minded Catholics it can be a very beneficial to the Catholic community as a whole. For example, if I were a Catholic radio host, or television host, and I spent every waking hour creating content at the expense of my family, I would be using these tools wrongly. But nobody in their right mind would argue that Catholic television and radio are bad in themselves. Television is a platform, radio is a platform, and social media is a platform. Social media is the media. Television and radio are dying, or at least will become far less prominent inf the near future. To ignore it and see it as bad would is exactly the reason why there is so much crap on television. If there is no Catholic presence in social media, then the vacuum will be filled with the secular. Ironically, in about 30 minutes I will be heading to a local Tweetup to meet some people that I've built a relationship with. Catholics everywhere need to wake up (I'm sorry if this sounds harsh, I am just very passionate about it). We need to evangelize everywhere and in every way possible. Social media is a platform just like every other medium (including Catholic conferences), and we can't sit back and let these battlefields be taken over without a fight (so to speak). I have to disagree with Bill. As with any “Tool” whether it is used for good or evil is determined by the user. Social media is “cold” if we make it cold. But if you use social media to build authentic relationships with like-minded Catholics it can be a very beneficial to the Catholic community as a whole. For example, if I were a Catholic radio host, or television host, and I spent every waking hour creating content at the expense of my family, I would be using these tools wrongly. But nobody in their right mind would argue that Catholic television and radio are bad in themselves. Television is a platform, radio is a platform, and social media is a platform.

Social media is the media. Television and radio are dying, or at least will become far less prominent inf the near future. To ignore it and see it as bad would is exactly the reason why there is so much crap on television. If there is no Catholic presence in social media, then the vacuum will be filled with the secular.

Ironically, in about 30 minutes I will be heading to a local Tweetup to meet some people that I’ve built a relationship with. Catholics everywhere need to wake up (I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, I am just very passionate about it). We need to evangelize everywhere and in every way possible. Social media is a platform just like every other medium (including Catholic conferences), and we can’t sit back and let these battlefields be taken over without a fight (so to speak).

]]> By: Bill http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/quote-how-is-your-desire-for-virtual-connectedness-these-days/comment-page-1/#comment-15363 Bill Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:30:42 +0000 http://www.fallibleblogma.com/?p=2749#comment-15363 Social Media/Networking is cold, if not impersonal. Completely void of the warmth of the human touch. Like its television-based counterpart, Reality TV, it has created a generation (or two) of social vegetables - leashed to their PDAs, TVs, laptops, and cell phones in a self-inflicted slavery. Does it have its purpose? oh, sure. I wouldn't be reading your article or responding to it otherwise. But like the Holy Father is intimating, it has its place - collectively we need to "Get a Life"... Great stuff. Keep up the good (God's) work! Social Media/Networking is cold, if not impersonal. Completely void of the warmth of the human touch. Like its television-based counterpart, Reality TV, it has created a generation (or two) of social vegetables – leashed to their PDAs, TVs, laptops, and cell phones in a self-inflicted slavery.

Does it have its purpose? oh, sure. I wouldn’t be reading your article or responding to it otherwise. But like the Holy Father is intimating, it has its place – collectively we need to “Get a Life”…

Great stuff. Keep up the good (God’s) work!

]]> By: Todd http://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/quote-how-is-your-desire-for-virtual-connectedness-these-days/comment-page-1/#comment-15247 Todd Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:59:19 +0000 http://www.fallibleblogma.com/?p=2749#comment-15247 Very well put. It certainly is a balancing act to juggle family time, "down time", leisure time and 'puter time... especially when trying to make a business of it. Very well put. It certainly is a balancing act to juggle family time, “down time”, leisure time and ‘puter time… especially when trying to make a business of it.

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