Building relationships with people you don't know? Gasp!
Then again, think of all the poking and IM’s we would get on Saturdays. No thanks!
Someone's at the door...
I live in the countryside of Kumamoto , Japan . We’ve even got them here . I must say though that the lady that comes regularly is very nice and my Japanese wife enjoys talking with her . She always leave a couple of pamphlets of course , but absolutely no pressure to join and she’s been coming for years .
While useful for some, i find it immature and it even looks like something out of High School.
But the real problem is that the mind control of the so-called Jehovah’s Witness also forbids them from seeing the damnable truth about their org: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/TheBIBLEandSoCalledJEHOVAHS-WITNESSES.html
http://www.jwfacts.com/watchtower/1800s.php
http://carm.org/jehovahs-witnesses
When “Facebook” was just first starting up, I clicked on there just for the purpose of writing a note complimenting Sarah Palin on something. BAM! Once I clicked, they demanded I register. From there, it was downhill all the way. I could find no way to escape (for a long time), but I think they finally got so many who wanted off, too, that they obliged and posted an escape method.
Bottom line is this; I wonder how many of those “friends” will attend the funerals of their wonderful “friends” when and if. My cousin is a radio personality; the last I saw he had over 400 “friends”. His uncle’s funeral is today in a town near him; I’ll be very surprised if he attends because “distant” is the best way I can describe him. Now, this cousin may have a record length funeral procession from Facebook “friends”, but, honestly, I doubt it.
My experience with it was not positive. At first, I didn’t turn down any “friends” requests. Then, I started getting propositioned by WOMEN on there offering “dates” and “sleepovers”. Did I say downhill?
A real live friend’s daughter-in-law would post photos of all her latest redecorating projects on her house on Facebook; then she would post what time they were leaving on a trip and what time they’d be back. Soon, they returned home one day to find that they’d been cleaned out.
Oh, and most that I either “friended” or accepted as “friends”, I never heard from them again. Of course, that fed into my insecurity and inferiority feelings and hurt my feelings. - One day, I started deleting “friends” and got out of the city. My ISP wouldn’t support hooking up to “Farmville” either; so I couldn’t harvest crops after I’d planted them; but that was silly, too.
Too bad SDA’s don’t have the same prohibition.
OK, I’m sorry. That was out of line. I love hearing that you celebrate the same Sabbath as God.