Does Social Media Do More Harm Than Good for Society?
I have several friends in ministry who recently unplugged from social media. When a particular flashbulb, social media incident precipitated angst and outrage on Christian twitter, my friends remained calm and steady. When I asked if they had heard about such and such an occurrence, they nonchalantly shrugged it off. I was envious of the freedom they were evidently experiencing. They were not carrying the weight of the world, burdens they did not need to carry. They were proving something I have thought about for years. If Neil Postman was right when he warned that we are amusing ourselves to death, I am concerned that we are burdening ourselves to death. We are carrying burdens that we were never meant to bear.