Comments on: Why I stay away from MySpace

By: Joecephus

Joecephus — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:12:27 +0000

hey Tim, try promoting http://www.faithfreaks.com, it is called the “christian alternative to myspace”. I have an account on both, however the faithfreaks is a lot cleaner, they dont even have the little garbage site links staying stuff like “is hell real. . . click here”. this may be something you can utilize. there is also http://www.shoutlife.com. be blessed,

joecephus

By: Move over MySpace, Facebook is #1 among teenagers » Life in student ministry

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:46:16 +0000

[...] Back in March I blogged about why I stay away from MySpace and even today I still do not have a MySpace account. However, I’ve used Facebook for quite some time now. Here’s why: [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:09:55 +0000

I agree totally with your reasons and have often considered canceling my account. However, there are many cries for help on MySpace that can be good indicators. Most kids in our youth group have an account and they are usually private. Every single student I requested as a friend has accepted. The post comments, pictures, send bulletins, and post surveys that reveal a lot about their life and walk (or lack thereof) with God. For me, it’s worth the mental struggle with the images to not miss a subtle, early indicator of trouble in a student’s life. God bless,

Josh

By: Glory

Glory — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:38:44 +0000

Tim-
I think you have some really good concerns. I have not joined for most of the same reason. I am on Facebook, which seems much cleaner. I’m glad you use that.

By: flexnfx

flexnfx — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:39:32 +0000

Tim -

My wife and I love myspace and are fully addicted. We’ve actually connected with more people through this than through traditional phone and email communications. It’s got it’s problems, but anything can (especially when it is a new thing). I totally respect your stance and agree with you that there is some serious junk that is being passed around, but just like the internet itself (search engines, etc.) you just have to be smart about it and set parameters for yourself.

Have a good one!

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:08:34 +0000

That is a big down side on it, and have wanted to quit many times, and even did everything to quit, but they didn’t cancel my account. Although many times it’s a let down to find out what the youth are actually up to, I still want to know.

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 00:40:13 +0000

Of course my favorite reason for wanting to get off of myspace is that I don’t really want to know what my students are doing. I mean I do want to know, but at the same time being blissfully unaware that the students you have in leadership positions were drunk on Friday sometimes makes my job easier. It doesn’t make it better, but sometimes easier.

MySpace shatters my ideas that my students are angels and while this is good sometimes, there are some days that I just want to live in my fantasies