Tag Archives: social media
Three years ago, Exposure Labs created and released the documentary “The Social Dilemma,” exposing the dangerously manipulative technology that drives the wildly popular social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter (now X), Instagram, and all the others. Between 2011 and 2013, researchers began to see a disturbing trend emerging. Depression and anxiety among young people began to increase.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality
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Tagged Arturo Bejar, Bari Weiss, David Zweig, Elon Musk, Facebook, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Lee Fang, Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, Sheryl Sandberg, social media, Twitter
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Everyone knows social media has negative effects. It’s the topic of countless articles, films have been made on it, people constantly discuss it, and it’s generally considered a bipartisan issue. Warning cries about social media have been sounded so often that they have become background music, even though it isn’t even 50 years old.
New technology tends to follow a cycle. When it's first introduced, it's only for the elite (or the geeks) that are rich enough (or nerdy enough) to buy it. Then, as everyday people begin to notice the ways it benefits their elite or geeky friends, they start to jump on the bandwagon. As the technology gains widespread acceptance, it's commended as "trendy" by its supporters and denounced as a "fad" by its opponents.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Media Watch, next gen
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Tagged Adam, anxiety, depression, dominion, mental health, Noah, social media, U.S. Surgeon General
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Social media is dangerous. It’s easy to lose your real life to a virtual one. One school district in Seattle, Washington has decided it’s had enough of students suffering from the designed dangers of social media. In a 91 page complaint filed against the parent companies of the social media platforms TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, Seattle Public Schools asserts that these companies have specifically curated their social media sites to be addicting to youth by “exploit[ing] the neurophysiology of the brain’s reward systems...”
Yesterday, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) put to shame every Congressman and Congresswoman who refuses to state publicly and definitively that no medical professional should support cross-sex hormone-doping for minors or the elective removal of healthy parts of their sexual anatomy as “treatments” for disordered feelings about their maleness or femaleness.
Posted in Sexuality
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Tagged Congress, cross sex hormones, genital mutilation, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Leftists, medical professional, minors, peer pressure, Rachel Levine, Rand Paul, Senator Rand Paul, social media, Trans, transphobic, United Nations Children's Fund, WHO
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In the article describing “hate speech” tactics, we saw how people are called haters if they oppose the homosexual or transgender agenda. The intent is to shame the opponents into silence, that the activists’ march through American culture can continue unopposed. In this article, we’ll see how the activists try to punish those who actually do stand against them.
Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, America, America's Culture, Antifa, Apple, Cancel culture, Christianity, Culture, Facebook, George Orwell, Google Play, Harald Uhlig, homosexuals, Karen Blair, LGBT, Masterpiece Cakesho, Memories Pizza, Niel Golightly, Parler, pronouns, Robert Jensen, sexuality, social media, The Crossing Church, The Internet, transgender, Twitter
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Prominent conservatives have launched a campaign on Twitter urging users to switch to Parler, a competing platform marketed as a "free speech social network." The social media giant has caused a tidal wave of an exodus to its more conservative competitor Parler after it deleted two popular conservative accounts and began adding disclaimers to the tweets of President Donald Trump.
Social media today is seemingly inescapable and the same holds true for Snapchat. As one of the top contenders of most loved social media platforms for teens, it is important for parents to understand this photo sharing app before deciding if it’s appropriate for your own kids.
While YouTube and Instagram still dominate the social media space among teens, Snapchat comes in a close third place with 69 percent of U.S. teens using the platform according to a 2018 Pew Research Center study. Snapchat isn’t inherently dangerous right off the bat, but parents will want to ensure that their teens are safe and responsible while using the app.
Among the reasonable and fairly well-defined criteria Twitter uses to censor content is this more ambiguous criterion: content “that incites fear about a protected group” or that “degrades someone.”
Does Twitter think it’s degrading to say “homosexual acts degrade persons”? What if homosexual acts do degrade persons? What words constitute an incitement to fear? Does it incite “fear about a protected group” to say that allowing biological males in women’s private spaces is an assault on decency and puts at risk the safety of girls and women? Does Twitter think saying “polyamory is wrong, and its normalization harms society” would …
If you are concerned about raising children or grandchildren in this high tech age in which screen time is a whole new phenomenon, then you’re not alone. A poll from Gallup finds that screens are a significant concern of parents. Here are some of the polling firm’s findings from a poll of 1,271 U.S. parents of children from birth to age 10.
Last week the people of Ireland voted to repeal Ireland’s Eighth Amendment that granted “equal protection of the right to life of the preborn child and his or her mother.” After the repeal, “legislators will have the power to legalize abortion for any reason up to birth.”
Leading up to the vote, however, Facebook, Twitter and Google all weighed in — arguably on the side of the pro-abort forces:
Google, Facebook, Twitter ban pro-life ads on Ireland abortion referendum
Leading up to the May 25th referendum in Ireland on repealing the Eighth Amendment, Google announced that it would suspend all
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Posted in Media Watch, Sanctity of Life
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Tagged Abortion, Facebook, Google, Ireland, John Hawkins, National Review, PragerU, social media, The Daily Signal, Tucker Carlson, Twitter
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The day after the election, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and saw two posts back-to-back from friends. One was convinced the world was coming to an end now that Donald Trump was elected president; the other was convinced America’s savior was now in the White House.
I’m sure you’ve seen similar contrasts – maybe even in your own household. There’s a sense of stark disunity in our culture these days, and the polls back that up. A recent Gallup poll found that 77 percentof Americans see the nation as “divided.”
Most of the time when people write about …
“They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them.” ~Romans 2:15
In the liberal quest for unencumbered sexual license, there remains a pesky little irritant built into humans called conscience. It’s a surprisingly durable part of the human psyche and gets in the way of all sorts of behaviors, either stopping humans before they engage in them or polluting the afterglow of iniquitous deeds.
Even the Left is forced to wrestle with the presence of conscience in culture, especially when it …
