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I’m torn. I think the announcements help with the community aspect. Plus, people are terrible at reading emails and most of my current ward refuse to be on social media which irks me to no end. But the announcements are really out of control some weeks. They take up about half the time we have in RS. If I were the teacher, I’d be irritated that my preparation got overridden by 50 announcements we heard last week and we’ll hear again next week. My ward announced today that effective Jan. 1 there would NO (his emphasis) announcements in SM. All announcements will be in the bulletin. I’m not generally opposed to the idea, I don’t go to church to get announcements. That said, our bulletin is going to take a significant amount of enhancement if that’s how we’re going to know stuff. FWIW, in elders quorum they have been asking us what we prefer about how to get the word out about things. Facebook is the overwhelming winner with everybody saying that either they or their spouse accessed it. My wife says the same question has been asked in RS, but there has been no clear group preference yet. BTW the other choices offered were text or email. I’m fine with any of them, I don;t have Facebook but my wife will tell me if I want to know (and I do know her password).
DarkJedi wrote:
My ward announced today that effective Jan. 1 there would NO (his emphasis) announcements in SM. All announcements will be in the bulletin. I’m not generally opposed to the idea, I don’t go to church to get announcements. That said, our bulletin is going to take a significant amount of enhancement if that’s how we’re going to know stuff.
We’ve got a pretty solid announcement section in our SM program. It’s a three-fold, which makes things more cramped than the two-folds I’ve seen elsewhere. But it gets the job done. I’ve also personally really liked when they have fliers, or even better, those poster-board announcements in the hall.
The thing with announcements in SM, SS, and Preisthood/RS, is that they are only effective for those able to quickly write them down, who haven’t heard from them elsewhere. Personally, I’ve had many moments where I am too slow to pop out my phone and mark them down in my calendar. I think reducing our dependence on them will be a good thing, especially since it’ll force us to think of better ways to bring these events to people’s attention.
hawkgrrrl wrote:
I’m torn. I think the announcements help with the community aspect. Plus, people are terrible at reading emails and most of my current ward refuse to be on social media which irks me to no end. But the announcements are really out of control some weeks. They take up about half the time we have in RS. If I were the teacher, I’d be irritated that my preparation got overridden by 50 announcements we heard last week and we’ll hear again next week.
I can’t stand social media. Not only does it foster polarization, partisan bigotry and social disharmony, it is also a total invasion of privacy.
DarkJedi wrote:
FWIW, in elders quorum they have been asking us what we prefer about how to get the word out about things. Facebook is the overwhelming winner with everybodyFacebook is one of the worst. Not only are the creeps who run that turdstorm selling on everyone’s private information, they foster all kinds of hatred… And censorship (it’s possible to do both simultaneously).
Facebook is actually the beta for an international facial recognition system, which will be rigged up to street cameras etc, although they don’t have the guts to admit it.
Sam Bee: I hear ya, but the horse is out of the barn. We already sold our souls for “free” internet access in this country. Time to lie down in the beds we’ve made. hawkgrrrl wrote:
Sam Bee: I hear ya, but the horse is out of the barn. We already sold our souls for “free” internet access in this country. Time to lie down in the beds we’ve made.
There’s never been free internet. I’m not even American, so it’s technically a foreign corporation spying on me, probably indulging in industrial espionage, and certainly monitoring my data.
I didn’t make that bed. in fact, I’ve always supported privacy laws over censorship laws. I don’t support a panopticon prison by degrees, let alone one by sudden implementation. Western governments are such hypocrites on this issue. They want censorship and invoke fake news and the like, but they also want to spy on their citizens and control them like cattle. We’ve been sold down the river.
At some point in the future, people will pull their hair out in despair over what our generation did.
I should not be forced to use Facebook because others are gullible enough to be taken in by it. Google is bad enough, but that’s partly unavoidable. Facebook is poison – I’m on the thing, but I despise it, and try and keep most things away from it.
As Sam Bee demonstrates, some European nations generally tend to take privacy much more seriously than the united states and tend to impose additional restrictions on data gathering. [Admin Note]: Good comments. Back to the focus of the post.
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