Review: #ReformingSocialMedia

#ReformingSocialMedia by Mandy J. Hoffman

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



A good primer for digital newbies and also a heart-check for using social media wisely.

Hoffman has clearly invested time in thinking through many of the issues and brings pertinent biblical principles to bear with concise, fluffless prose. She is neither alarmist nor dismissive of the inherit digital dangers and offers very practical strategies for glorifying God while being social online. Good counsel. I've already thought of several people to whom I will recommend "the book with the hashtag in the title."



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Anti-Social Media: Whisper, Secret, and Yik Yak

Readers of this blog can probably guess what I think of the new apps for anonymous sharing of secrets.

Very. Bad. Idea.

"A gossip betrays a confidence, but a trustworthy man keeps a secret." - Proverbs 11:13

"A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends." - Proverbs 16:28

"The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to a man's inmost parts." - Proverbs 18:8, 26:22

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"Anti-Social Media" is a new feature/label here on Hot Orthodoxy where we report on and interact with new and disturbing trends in social media that correlate to the problem of gossip.


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