Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

The death of reading is threatening the soul

Thursday, July 27th, 2017
death of reading

I am going through a personal crisis. I used to love reading. I am writing this blog in my office, surrounded by 27 tall bookcases laden with 5,000 books. Over the years I have read them, marked them up, and recorded the annotations in a computer database for potential references in my writing. To a Read more

Social media a lazy way for politicians to communicate with young

Thursday, July 13th, 2017
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Social media is a lazy and ineffective way for politicians to communicate with voters says Tino Mahowa, a student at St Bernard’s College in Lower Hutt. “If any politician were to use social media as a way to communicate, it would be to their detriment. It’s a terrible means of conveying detailed information.” “Candidates could Read more

German President, social media and anti-Semitism

Thursday, June 29th, 2017

German head of state President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has spoken out about the way social media is being used to promote anti-Semitism through “hate tirades” in Germany and across Europe. Speaking after a ceremony celebrating the centenary of a synagogue in the southern German town of Augsburg that survived the Nazi regime, Steinmeier said: “The social Read more

Addiction to social media

Monday, June 19th, 2017

The word “addiction” brings to mind alcohol and drugs. Yet, over the past 20 years, a new type of addiction has emerged: addiction to social media. It may not cause physical harms, such as those caused by tobacco and alcohol, but it has the potential to cause long-term damage to our emotions, behaviour and relationships. Read more

The seven deadly sins of social media

Friday, November 25th, 2016

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed. ~ Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn (2011) The Atlantic’s Robinson Meyer suggests that Hoffman’s tongue-in-cheek comment from five years ago may contain more than a kernel of truth. Using Dante’s Inferno as Read more

Sindr – the hotline to the Sacraments

Friday, November 25th, 2016

Sindr, an app using GPS technology to get you to Mass and Reconciliation, is now official. It has just been launched at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Next time you’re looking for somewhere to go to Mass or Reconciliation, it may come to your aid. If you’re in Scotland, that is. It will tell you Read more

Forget about the pulpit, start tweeting says Vatican official

Friday, November 11th, 2016
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The Vatican’s top communications experts say tweeting and other social media is the way to go. Bishop Paul Tighe, a Vatican culture secretary,  says they are finding people on Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and other all-inclusive, non-denominational digital houses of worship. Tighe has been in Lisbon for Web Summit, Europe’s largest tech conference. Before he left Read more

Pope and Facebook founder – communication technologies could alleviate poverty and encourage hope

Friday, September 2nd, 2016

Facebook and similar communications’ technologies could be used to alleviate poverty, encourage the culture of encounter and bring a message of hope, especially to the most disadvantaged. This week’s meeting at the Vatican between Pope Francis and Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and CEO of social networking giant Facebook, looked at ways to achieve this. The meeting Read more

Sacred Heart College lets students use cellphones only at lunchtime

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016

A new rule at a Lower Hutt school means teenage girls are allowed to check their phones only at lunchtime. Sacred Heart College has introduced a rule that means cellphones are not to be used during school except in the lunch break, or if the phone is being used as a learning tool in class. In Read more

Go to church to pray not play says priest

Friday, August 19th, 2016

Avid Pokemon Go players in churches should better come to church to pray, not to get hooked on the addictive game. A Catholic priest in Tacloban City reminded Pokemon Go fanatics not to forget their faith even as they try to advance their status in the popular game. Noting that Sto. Niño Church in Tacloban Read more