Social Networking at Work
Thought-provoking post on Q about using Facebook and other social media sites at work. It asks these questions:
- Is it fair to our employers to engage in social media when we’re “on the clock”?
- For those of us who have flexible work schedules (or even work at home), does social media compromise our attention span and mental capacity?
- Are we sitting behind our computers so much that we miss out on opportunities to develop relationships with our co-workers?
- If we are always preoccupied with blogging and social media sites, do we give an appearance of impropriety, or even laziness at work?
Read the whole thing here.
Has Facebook Killed the Church?
Interesting article on the effect social networking may have had on church attendance (written from a US perspective).
What do you think? Has Facebook replaced church as a place for social networking?
So why has mobile social computing affected church attendance? Well, if church has always been kind of lame and irritating why did people go in the first place? Easy, social relationships. Church has always been about social affiliation. You met your friends, discussed your week, talked football, shared information about good schools, talked local politics, got the scoop, and made social plans (“Let’s get together for dinner this week!”). Even if you hated church you could feel lonely without it…
But Millennials are in a different social situation. They don’t need physical locations for social affiliation. They can make dinner plans via text, cell phone call or Facebook. In short, the thing that kept young people going to church, despite their irritations, has been effectively replaced. You don’t need to go to church to stay connected or in touch. You have an iPhone.
