SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE
I talked to a priest about how I had gotten fascinated with Internet social networking sites, but was not at peace with participating there because they seem to be heavily invested with sugggestive pictures and material, which I would try to navigate past as one would mythical Scylla and Charybdis.
He divined (oops!) that this interest suggested (oops!) lonliness, and recommended I get more active in real life social activities. He also mentioned that I might look into a certain Catholic online site, where I might find interesting possibilities for replacing the unsavory ones saturated with sexy stuff.
The site he mentioned didn’t very strongly capture my interest, but following up a bit late I discovered a well-known social networking site I had joined some time previously but had never much frequented had a ‘Catholic Friends’ group, which is just what the “doctor of souls” ordered. International in character, it turns out to have many active members from Poland and the Phillipines, two of the most thoroughly Catholic countries in the world. A number of the participants are consecrated members of religious orders, and lay folk highly interested in the Church and personal holiness comprise a good part of the membership. There is a sprinkling of inquisitive non-Catholics too. I get to see some elegant religious illustrations, read about favorite saints and devotions, and enjoy uploaded music of good quality.
