This weekend I watched The Social Dilemma on Netflix. Needless to say, I'm hesitant to make any new posts on social media with this renewed awareness about how these platforms are, by designs, machines of manipulation.

That church happens here should give us all pause.

And yet I'm posting here because, as so many of us in modern culture(s) understand, this is where culture is created, negotiated, and––increasingly––prepared for legislation.

This is also where we are bought and sold.
Again, the Church needs a come to Jesus on this.

The reckoning is needed because many of us––me included, I'm certain––are experiencing addiction in moments when we think we are experiencing community. We are driven by the compulsion to engage while thinking that manipulated engagement is what relationships are.

This is why I'm here for this thread.

The conversation is about online liturgy, but I think we have to address whether the platforms that facilitate online community are not also worth reevaluation. https://twitter.com/hannahnpbowman/status/1305515569022550016?s=20

Maybe you don't have the capacity for this because #OregonIsBurning. I mean, that's my reality.

Or maybe you think it's ironic or even hypocritical for a priest to tweet a thread with concerns about social media usage in the Church.

Welcome to another Monday in 2020.