JW's get real uppitty when a comment is posted on their Facebook wall that makes them look foolish. Due to their strict adherance to Wacktower dogmas and their foolish lines of non-reasoning, they can't debate very well- too bad! .. Unfortunately, JW's set themselves up for public ridicule and that is why they can't exist on public social networking sites. They feel superior to all the worldly class only because they are never backed into a corner at the door. If it gets too hot in the kitchen for them, they just make a quick exit and go to another house. Hanging out in Facebook or Myspace subjects them to mental waterboarding by non-witnesses. Eventually, most of them will suffer a religious crisis of conscience and see the cracks in their spiritual phoney paradise.
Word on the street is that Facebook is going to be banned...
by middleman 24 Replies latest jw friends
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WTWizard
I think they already effectively banned it. They only used MySpace as an example last time because it was the lead social network, and Facebook (and Twitter) are next. They do not want anyone on any social network that could link potential apostates with each other or allow the witlesses to research their religion using independent sources. If they are cut off, that eliminates the chances for them to realize that they are in the wrong religion.
The penalty is loss of "privileges". If you have an account with Facebook or MySpace, you will probably not be appointed to pio-sneer or to become a hounder or assistant hounder. Of course, they have yet to say anything about this forum.
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Pistoff
The WT is digging their own grave with the policy they take on mainstream social trends.
Who among young people is going to listen to this raving? They will do what they increasingly do; they will quietly ignore it.
The more leadership rants, the more they reveal their complete lack of grasp on reality.
What could possibly be wrong, or detrimental, about a facebook profile? That is what young people think; when they hear the leadership go on about it, the facts become obvious--the GB is out of touch, luddite and ridiculous.
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Tired of the Hypocrisy
"Ya that's basically what I meant...guess I could've worded it better but you know what I mean lol. It's one of many unwritten rules that if broken gets you in trouble."
You are so right, they rarely come out and say something. If they did say it they could be sued by fb or ms....LOL Legal dept. is in charge!
However, I can still remember one night when the co told us that if we were seen in line for an R rated movie we better expect to be taken back to the little room for questioning.
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Black Sheep
'Asleep!' Oct 2008
What you should know. “A social networking site is like an online party,” says a girl named Joanna. “Some very scary people can show up.” The personal information posted on social networks can be exploited by unscrupulous youths and adults. Thus, Internet safety expert Parry Aftab calls such sites “one stop shopping for sexual predators.”
Furthermore, Internet friendships tend to be superficial. On their Web pages, some youths accumulate a number of online contacts whom they have never met face-to-face, simply to appear popular to others who visit their site. In her book Generation MySpace, Candice Kelsey writes that it really comes down to “judging a person’s social stock value merely by how many other people like him or her.” She adds: “This commodities-trading style of relating reduces our children to nonhuman entities and places an inordinate amount of pressure to represent themselves in whatever way will gain them more friends.” Thus, What in the World Are Your Kids Doing Online? asks a valid question: “How do you make it clear that children need to develop empathy and compassion when the electronic world allows them to meet and discard people at the drop of a hat?”
These six examples are just some of the Internet activities that fascinate young people today. If you are a parent, what can you do to protect your children from online dangers?
They may not ban Facebook, but their disincentive to use it is in the public domain.
Cheers Chris