February 2010
3 posts
TECHNOLOGY: "Friends No More" Jumping off the...
I really appreciated this article in USA Today yesterday.I wonder if any of us would be willing to go this far. ‘Friends’ no more?For some, social networking has become too much of a good thingBy Marco R. della Cava USA TODAY Facebook reports that it has 400 million active users worldwide. Make that 399,999,999. Laura LeNoir is done.“I feel better, I feel lighter, I got my...
TECHNOLOGY: Twitter, Facebook, Buzz... oh my!!!
Now, the rating for how popular you are will be: FACEBOOK FRIENDS + TWITTER FOLLOWERS + BUZZ FOLLOWERS = Your “F.T.B.” popularity rating. What if they all crashed at the same time? What would happen to culture as we know it? Thoughts? Posted via email from a hungry imagination. | Comment »
MEDIA and MORALITY: Using sex to sell products....
In a letter to the editor, John Piper addresses the issue of using women in their “underclothes” as a means to selling more product in his local newspaper.Christian, and non-Christian alike, will need to consider his concerns. As a 14-year subscriber and reader of the [name of paper omitted], I am writing to express the persuasion that your sexually explicit ads that often turn up in...