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Facebook hurting moral values, says study

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Facebook comes under the wrath of new studies



Bite-size news fed to us on social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter can make us immoral, says a new study by the Brain and Creativity Institute at the University of Southern California.

According to the scientists who did tests on 13 volunteers measuring how long it took to emotionally respond to real stories of pain and heartache, we can't reflect properly on sad news that comes to use in quick micro chunks.

"If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people's psychological states and that would have implications for your morality," claims the report.

Apparently we need six to eight seconds to fully respond to emotional stories, and the constant barrage of 'infotainment' Facebook and Twitter users come in contact with everyday is harming this.

"In a media culture in which violence and suffering becomes an endless show, be it in fiction or in infotainment, indifference to the vision of human suffering gradually sets in," said Manuel Castells, a leading sociology expert at USC.

Facebook doesn't make the grade

If making us immoral wasn't bad enough, apparently heavy users of Facebook suffer from lower grades at school.

According to Time.com, a report by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University has found that children's grades in the US were linked to usage of the site.

A survey of 219 undergraduates found that the grade point averages (GPA) of Facebook users was a grade lower than non-users.

Speaking to Time.com about the report, Karpinski said: "Maybe [Facebook users] are just prone to distraction. Maybe they are just procrastinators."

Via Telegraph and Time.com

By Marc Chacksfield

Jon's Jots on the Daily Lectionary for April 14, 2009

"O sing to the LORD a new song,
for he has done marvelous things.
His right hand and his holy arm
have gained him victory."
Psalm 98:1

Our proper response to the amazing spectacle of Christ's resurrection is that we are speechless. Our jaws drop and our we can't make words come out of our mouths so great is the joyful shock to our system. When we do regain our ability to make sounds with our mouths nothing we are able to say seems worth saying because it falls so far short of the praise and wonder we wish to express.

We will have to learn to sing a new song. All the old songs won't work this time. This resurrection event calls for something totally new -- a new song. Our proper response to Easter is to "sing to the LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things." God's agenda turns out to be bigger than the agenda of the "prince of the power of air."

Christ's agenda was not merely to conquer this world but to redeem this world by conquering death. Jesus' goal was not be an earthly king so he told Pilate, "My kingdom is not of this world." The victory Christ won upon the cross was life snatched from the jaws of death and then freely offered to all who will believe.

Let's sing a new song to the Lord today! This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.


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Easter Song sung by Keith Green