For those of you who did not know, I originally started out blogging with “blogspot.” I have now moved to wordpress as it has seemed a better choice, although I do miss my old header from my last blog. Thus said, below is actually an older post (with a few modifications) that I thought I would re-post in light of recent events:
It seems that the craze to put your life out on the web for your friends or anyone to see has hit an all time high and seems to be topping that high every day. One such web site that has generated from this hype myspace.
Its got everything a kid could want, picture uploading space, comment sections, customizable web pages, blogs, video uploading, music, and lots more. Myself being an ex-myspacer, I will attempt to explain a few reasons why I feel myspace is a very dangerous place for young and mature believers alike.
First, myspace ads. Ads online are bad enough as it is, but it seems every few pages on myspace seem to greet you with an eyeful of breasts and skin that some would almost call soft core porn. These ads, often accompanied by words such as “Mate Finder” or “True Love,” only fuel the fire of the declining biblical view of sexuality, and often are a stumbling block to brothers who struggle with lust.
Secondly, not only the ads, but the people on myspace are becoming increasingly more sexual. I have one day opened a page to a theology group that I was in, when overnight, mass amounts of women with actual pornographic pictures had joined the group, putting their pictures front page and center for everyone to see. People like this have even sent me friend requests before, just that much more strengthening the side of the flesh in its on going battle with the mind and soul. Myspace claims to regulate this sort of stuff, but it is clearly to rampant to control.
Thirdly, not only do women inappropriately display themselves in a seductive and sometimes pornographic manner, so do the men. It seems that spray painting over the visible private parts on a picture constitutes a picture “appropriate” in myspace.
But its not just the lustfulness of myspace that ruins it, the sheer content of the web pages do. People who constantly promote sexual sin, illegal acts, lies, unedifying language and more. Myspace also tends to skew who a person really is too, if it weren’t for the fact that I knew better, I would imagine some of the people I knew on there were just angry, hateful, always wallowing in self pity and ready to slit their wrists. Or maybe they really are that way……
To the previous paragraph on people not being portrayed as who they really are, one might interject that “anyone can do that on any social network, not just myspace.” To that, I would just you just have to trust me, between the different social networks I have been on, myspace seems to have an “air about it” for these kind of things.
It is just a constant stream of sin and worldliness and any godliness that someone might try to portray on myspace has to be removed from under the pile of sinfulness one must migrate through to get to it.
Lastly, the thing that brought me to write this is that a few people, I won’t name any names, said they were making an “accountability group” on myspace (you can make groups for people to join), and that they were going to get people to join that group so that everyone can help hold eachother accountable. I have differing opinions on accountability groups in general, but to that that I say:
“Why would anyone want to wade through shark infested waters to meet on an island when they just stepped off of perfectly good land to do so?”
My current alternative for myspace: facebook.com So far, it has proven itself fairly clean, private, and seems to not hold the air of sinfulness that myspace does.
