Just came across this excellent blog post about (bad) blogging in light of I Tim 6:4, and the excerpt below pin-points incredibly well some of the biggest factors that led me to finally take a step away from Facebook earlier this week. Social networking may not affect everyone in exactly the same way, but I finally came to realize its effect on me and some of the reasons I had become so drawn to it. I also know that there are SO many other things I need/desire to be accomplishing with my time, which I could do a lot more effectively if I took the hours spent online each week and put them towards life in the real world. I'm not saying Facebook is all-in-all a bad thing necessarily, if kept in moderation and used for God-honoring purposes, but I, for one, am prone to addiction--yes, much like an alcoholic or a porn-addict. I could elaborate into a full-length post on this subject, but... I have more important things to do at the moment. See if you relate, as I do, to Dane Ortlund's explanation:
8. I believe there is a common root heart issue from which both pornography viewing and online obnoxiousness emerge. In both cases 1) it is usually a man 2) who logs on to his computer, 3) is most prone to fall into this sin when tired or depressed, 4) feels personally inadequate, 5) is spurred on in this online activity by not having to truly engage another human being but instead has no relational demand placed upon him, 6) generates self-identity and bolsters his own sense of vaunted masculinity through his time online, 7) finds the activity addictive, immediately satisfying yet only leaving him hungry for more, 8) underestimates how much damage he is doing to himself and to others, and 9) logs off feeling a little more dirty.
(For the context of this blog excerpt, see his entire post here.)
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