2. Favor face-time over Facebook.
In a related resolution, I want to make a point of cultivating friendships in a coffee shop, my home, at the beach or in other places that are … well, actual places. Facebook relationships, forged in the ether of cyberspace, fueled by texts and emoticons, have their place in human interaction, but they shouldn’t replace the preciousness of fellowship that comes from being together.
It’s a way of loving your neighbor and honoring the image of God over an image download.
This is something Satan loves to undermine …
1 Thess 2:17-18 But since we were torn away from you, brothers, for a short time, in person not in heart, we endeavored the more eagerly and with great desire to see you face to face, because we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, again and again—but Satan hindered us.
1 Thess 3:10-11 … we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith. Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
3. Tweet to edify, not attract attention.
Prov 29:11,20 A fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back. … 20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Eccl 9:17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.
In other words, just because you have a tribe of followers on Twitter or your blog does not mean you should relish spouting whatever pontification gurgles up from your reservoir of stagnant opinions.
(For some other lessons we learn from social media, see: In the Tweet by and by: Twitter and Eschatology)
