{"id":2913,"date":"2011-03-17T13:48:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2015-03-13T16:58:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T21:58:23","slug":"elizabeth-drescher-facebook-doesnt-kill-churches-churches-kill-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/tonyjones\/2011\/03\/17\/elizabeth-drescher-facebook-doesnt-kill-churches-churches-kill-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Drescher: Facebook Doesn't Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Elizabeth Drescher<\/a> has a great post at Religion Dispatches<\/a>, riffing on Richard Beck\u2019s excellent post<\/a> about Facebook killing the church.\u00a0 Money Quote from Drescher:<\/p>\n

Not Enough Social to Go Around<\/strong><\/p>\n

The relationships among the undergraduates in Beck\u2019s research were not formed on Facebook, they were enriched by students\u2019 continued digital contact. The problem with regard to churches and other religious communities (and we see this over and over again with Facebook group pages whose only visitors are the minister and the technophile parishioner who championed the church\u2019s foray into the digital domain) seems to be that there\u2019s not enough social to go around.<\/p>\n

That is, if church were, indeed, a robustly social experience, Facebook would enrich and extend that experience, enhancing week-to-week retention through ongoing conversation with valued friends\u2014just as it appears to do with undergraduates moving from the first to the second year of college. Thin connections in face-to-face settings are not magically transformed by technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Facebook Doesn\u2019t Kill Churches, Churches Kill Churches | (A)theologies | Religion Dispatches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, this very point was made by Mike Baughman<\/a> at the Social Phonics Boot Camp last week in Dallas, when he challenged the group about how Facebook is actually picking up where the church dropped the ball.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Drescher has a great post at Religion Dispatches, riffing on Richard Beck\u2019s excellent post about Facebook killing the church.\u00a0 Money Quote from Drescher: Not Enough Social to Go Around The relationships among the undergraduates in Beck\u2019s research were not formed on Facebook, they were enriched by students\u2019 continued digital contact. 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