Bleets and tweets
Cardinal Sean Brady thinks Catholics should consider using the social messaging network, Twitter, to create a 'sea of prayer' which would 'strengthen our sense of solidarity'. On Sunday's programme, the media expert Paul Moore chided me for not having an AudioBoo account yet. I blog, write updates on Facebook and tweet (@williamcrawley) comments about this and that, but apparently that's not enough to be connected these days. The gauntlet thrown down, I picked it up on Sunday evening when -- courtesy of my friend DáithÃ, who is always ahead of the new technology curve -- I broadcast a message on AudioBoo from a restaurant in Belfast. No, I didn't take a satellite picture of our location; and yes, inevitably, I misnamed the new technology AudioBooze. Perhaps when the cardinal discovers AudioBoo, he will recommend that believers create a worldwide choir with AudioBoo hymns.
Comment number 1.
At 29th Apr 2009, mccamleyc wrote:Never mind twitter and audioboo - what's with the new blog style? Have to say I'm not loving it. And you can't like that side view of your double chin.
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Comment number 2.
At 29th Apr 2009, romejellybean wrote:I welcome the Cardinal's advice on Christians using the social network Twitter, but not for creating a sea of prayer. It wont. It will, however, provide Christians with another platform to air views and to hear criticisms from across society, views other than the ones they hear emanating from pulpits every Sunday.
(For example, Charles and CPB's recent "deeply meaningful" meeting with the Pope can now be commented upon by ordinary people and views expressed other than the sickly sweet coverage we got from the News.) (CPB stands for Camilla Parker Bowles, by the way, not Completely Posh Bird, incase anyone was wondering.)
Bring it on, I say. Although, having experienced this blog site for a few months now, I am not convinced that most people actually listen to reasoned argument. From what I've witnessed on here it would seem that many people approach these networks with their own 'certainties' and all the reasoned argument in the world wont make them budge an inch.
The more social networking there is, the more Cardinal Brady's views will be put under scrutiny by ordinary people. An answer to my prayers.
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