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I’ve never met Mark Zuckerberg. I’m old enough to be his father. But 1000+ friends later, and countless pictures of young people in our community tagged, there is no question that he has changed how I connect. And, I’m not surpised that Time has named him person of the year.
Time:
For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them, for creating a new system of exchanging information and for changing how we live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year . . .
"On or about December 1910, human character changed."
— Virginia Woolf, 1924She was exaggerating — but only a little. Woolf saw a fundamental shift in human relations taking place at the beginning of the 20th century "between masters and servants, husbands and wives, parents and children." Those changes, she predicted, would bring about transformations in every sphere of life, from religion to politics to human behavior. Few would say she got it wrong.
A century later, we are living through another transition. The way we connect with one another and with the institutions in our lives is evolving.
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HT: Trevin Wax
Even though I am a pastor in a small town, I am changing how I connect with people as a result of the explosive growth of Facebook.
If you read Tim Challies’ reflections about how Facebook is changing culture you will understand why:
Seven hundred billion minutes. That’s how much time Facebook’s 500 million active users spend on the site every month. 700,000,000,000 minutes. Let that one sink in for a moment. Every month we spend the equivalent of 1.3 million years on Facebook; the equivalent of nearly 18,000 lifetimes. More than half of us login every single day; we average 130 friends. And we spend vast amounts of time on there.
Facebook now offers 900 million different objects or pages for us to interact with—groups, events, community pages, and so on. We upload over 3 billion photographs every month (which means we’re uploading millions every hour).
Do you know what really blows my mind about all of this? Facebook is only 7 years old. Most of us have joined in only the past 2 or 3 years. The growth charts are out of this world:
So think about this one.
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