Wednesday, February 11, 2009

A Christian Facebook?

At SNL Sunday night we talked about a possible facebook alternative. There are many pros and cons to both myspace and facebook. I will try to list some here. If you think of others, please put them in the comment section.
Pros:
- You can put out all the info about you and your friends in one easy access place. Pictures, videos, personal notes are easy for any of your friends to get to. They no longer have to ask you for copies of stuff cause they can get it from facebook.
- conversations are easy to have with friends over long distances and your friends can still feel like they are sharing in your experiences even if they didn't get to be there because they can see and read about many of the things that are going on. they can even comment on them along with others
- People can catch a glimpse of who a person is quickly by looking at their profile. If the profile lies, then their 300 friends will call them on it. (It's our own personal ad campaign)
- you can really share the music and things that you like with lots of people.
- you can meet new friends with similar interests
- not just anybody can look at your profile

Cons
- People sometimes use it to prove how popular they are
- People's feelings can get hurt
- There are so many little extra badges and drinks and little games that if you have too many friends it can drive you nuts
- Impostors can easily get your info by pretending to be someone you know. Then they can find out all about you
- Sometimes you are accidently exposed to things you don't want to be exposed to (language, pictures, posts)

I'm not asking you to drop your facebook or myspace account. That's up to you to decide if you need to. i do want to offer you something new. Basically this is just like facebook but with a Christian slant. Profanity and improper photos aren't allowed. Give this a look and see what you think. Comment and let me know. The link is in the links section of the blog. Or you can type in www.faithout.com.

* CREATED MY PROFILE. PRETTY GOOD SO FAR

1 comment:

Lenora said...

This is honestly really neat.
I like that it is just like facebook so you dont have to get used to anything new.