成人快手

A reflection and prayer to start the day with Rick Hill

Good Morning.

On this day 2006 a text message sharing service was renamed and what we now know as Twitter was born. I suspect few people back then would have predicted the impact it would have on Global communications and news.

English language has shifted and we have different understanding of the word tweet as a result. Hashtags once had marginal use by mathematicians and computer scientists, now they have entered common parlance.

The immediacy of social media makes it all too easy to comment or reply swiftly. We might use it for good, for citizen journalism to highlight injustice, to reach out to the world at a time of need. We might use it to incite, troll and hurt.

Like any words we speak we might do well to think before we tweet.

The hashtag revolution is here to stay. Tweets are often the start-point for a news story- the raid which found Osama Bin Laden and the plane landing on the Hudson River are both examples. There鈥檚 been a fair amount of drivel too. The actor Jeff Goldblum had to appear on American television to prove that rumours of his death were false.

When it comes to what we read we need to be sceptical. And our personal tweeting needs to be responsible.

At School many years ago the headmaster used to read us some verses from St Paul鈥檚 letter to the Philippians. They鈥檇 make a great social media test.

鈥淲hatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable鈥攊f anything is excellent or praiseworthy鈥攖hink about such things鈥�.

Father, fix our thoughts on what is true, right, noble, pure lovely and admirable. And may our twittering match, Hashtag Amen.

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