I don't consider myself to be deeply immersed in "social media," but maybe I am more immersed than I have actually realized.
Wikipedia lists a lot of "social media" platforms, including Twitter, Facebook, WeChat, ShareChat, Instagram, Pinterest, QZone, Weibo, VK, Tumblr, Baidu Tieba, Threads, and LinkedIn. Wikipedia also lists other popular platforms that are sometimes referred to as "social media." That list includes: YouTube, Letterboxd, QQ, Quora, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, LINE, Snapchat, Viber, Reddit, Discord, and TikTok. Wikis and Roblox. Not mentioned by Wikipedia, I note, is TruthSocial, the social media platform maintained by our current president. He often posts there during the middle of the night, as I understand it. I am not affiliated, and I am happy to be left out!
Anyway, with respect to my own social media affiliations, I have few to list. I do have a LinkedIn account (which I scarcely ever utilize), and I maintain a Facebook Profile, too. I always upload these blog postings of mine onto my Facebook page, and I send out greetings to Facebook Friends, when I am alerted that one of my Facebook Friends is having a birthday. When someone asks to be one of my "Facebook Friends" I check out who asked, and then will sometimes say, "yes" to a new Facebook Friendship. While there is an overlap, of course, between "Facebook Friends" and "real" friends - people whom I know and have actually met - I am generally happy to establish connections with people who, for one reason or another, have decided that they'd like to see what I am posting, even though I have never actully met them in "real life."
And what is it that I post on Facebook? Mainly, besides my daily blog posts, I try to alert my Facebook Friends to political, economic, environmental, legal, and social issues I think are important, and I frequently spotlight local news, affecting Santa Cruz County and the Monterey Bay Area, including advice on upcoming local meetings of various kinds.
Probably because I have taken, on Sundays, to posting blog items that I think might have some "religious" or "spiritual" message, it seems that I have attracted a new "Facebook Friend." Back in late May, I got a "Friend Request" from "UniLu Elcm," a name I definitely did not recognize, and that I first postulated might indicate that someone from one of the Baltic States was seeking a Facebook Friendship with me.
Not at all, as it turned out. "UniLu Elcm" turned out to be the Episcopal Lutheran Campus Ministry at Stanford, which also identifies itself as "Progressive Christians at Stanford." I am delighted to be connected, and I very promptly found, through this new Facebook "friendship," that there is a "Naked Pastor" cartoonist, who is providing religious messages by way of cartoons like the one I have placed at the top of this blog entry.
The cartoon Jesus, whom you can see, above, does have a good "Sunday Sermon" message, a message that does ring true to me. Thanks to my Facebook Friend UniLu Elcm for passing it along!
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