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"Have You Seen Your Kids' MySpace?" DESCRIPTION:
Radioactive B!+@H, Suckanut Slut, Boyish Sex Machine, NaughtyXXXAsh - porn stars or teens on MySpace? "Why should I care so much for everyone else when no one gives a s!*# about me?" "y do guys ... say that they like u but make u feel like s!*#?" "I will get you drunk and help you plot revenge against the sorry b@$!@&! who made you sad." "Why is it that life sucks?" "my mother ... i can't stand her!" Welcome to the world of teenagers, in their own words. These are just a few of the online identities and comments generated by teens on Myspace as they wrestle with emotional conflicts, relationship dramas, family strife, sexuality, and purpose. Businessweek calls the 70+ million young people with Myspace accounts (plus millions using other online social networks) the "Myspace Generation." How should the church engage?Internet Usage
- 87% of kids 12-17 use internet
- Multimedia - 6.5 hrs/day watching tv, listening to music, playing video games, searching the web
- Multi-tasking - 1.75 hrs/day intaking media simultaenously
- Social networking - 1 hr. 22 min. /day (Myspace, Sconex, Friendster, Xanga, etc)
Myspace
- 2.5 times more traffic than Google.
- Membership quadrupled in 2005 to 40 million by december
- 79 millon today
- Rupert Murdoch bought Myspace for 580 million in 7/05
Theological Reflection
- Genesis 11:1-9 - Tower of Babel Common language (v. 1), interconnected community (Shinar, v.2), and technological innovation (bricks, v. 3) meant: "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them." (v.6)
- Today, computers provide common language (first time since Babel), interconnectedness, and technological innovation.
- At Babel, competence without character corrupted community and created cultural chaos. Thus, God dispersed the people by confusing language.
- Could it be that today, God invites Acts 2 infilling of the Holy Spirit to redeem community, even in cyberspace?
- More here.
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posted by Jeremy Del Rio @ 5/20/2006 04:09:00 PM
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