In what ways do you communicate online?
People answering this question tend to focus on the technologies themselves rather than on the purpose of their communication.
Thanks to the birth of the Internet which makes communication for whatever purpose among people much faster, farther and wider. Nowadays, emails replace pen mails, Facebook precedes family or friends gatherings, blogs make friends with people globally, and WhatsApp texts are preferred to a telephone chat.
More apps are born, then more people are home-bound, and more gossips travel fast and wide and thus more hurts are done against someone they don’t know nor ever meet.
Communication between or among family members, friends, colleagues or business partners has by now extended to communication with people beyond acquaintances. YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, etc. could satisfy all needs including those who have no family members to share with, no friends to talk to, and no one to go to.
Among the dire desires for talking to people and opening their lives even to strangers, few desire to speak with God. Even for many believers, they pray for blessings no more than necessary. They prefer communicating with the virtual world to communion with God in private. Getting approval from God is overwhelmed by getting “likes” from the world.
As for me, I decide on the purpose of my communication before choosing the way of communication. I seek communion with God in private before communicating with others in public. I receive gifts from the Holy Spirit before I can share with others. My communion with God is focussed on His presence, and my communication with others on testimonial exchanges.
Technology is good when used appropriately and for the goodness of others. Both inventors and users could make technology a monster which is dangerous to lives and to the world.
Where there are no buyers, there are no sellers; there are no sellers, then no inventors. It is all about making the first right choice among all choices.
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1 John 2:15
“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.”
en yan hua fang 