What is the value of social media?

We all know it distracts us, takes us away from family and friends, where our only connection is maybe a photograph that could have been shared in person? Especially sites like this, where none of those characteristics exist, like seeing your family and friends? It feels as social media creates more isolation and loneliness than a smile in person while people stare into a screen to tell a story they could have in voice.

What gives?

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val70 · 51-55

On its own nothing at all. Depends on what you make of it. Personally, I can't stand so-called influencers. There goes a whole generation going a cropper one day if they don't adult up and accept there's actually far more than self. Like good old Bishop Ryle would say: faith alone isn't us. So there's actually no point seeing it as yet another vehicle to move us to where we want to be. It's the journey that's always more important

awildsheepschase

@val70 For some it's a tool, for another it's addictive. Its hard when you are addicted to see anything as a journey towards anything, it just becomes a tool to feed your addiction. I agree with you, faith alone isn't who you are, neither is addiction, and even faith is also just a tool of spirit looking for something beyond what they can grasp.