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No this isn’t an April Fool’s joke, the Deseret News announced that the Brethren now have Facebook and Google+ pages. The article was quite clear that this was conceived as a missionary tool. It is managed by someone else, probably the missionary committee or the correlation committee. The article stated that “people should not necessarily expect that the Brethren are regularly visiting these pages, but it is also not an impossibility.” Could this be a useful vehicle for constructive two way conversation with TPTB (The Powers That Be)? Although I have a facebook page, I have never posted on it So I don’t understand its ground rules. But I can’t imagine the Church doing this without the ability to edit or delete comments that they don’t like. Moreover, it sounds like it is an effort in PR. Anyone have any observations?
Here’s the link to the announcement:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765636631/Why-President-Monson-and-Mormon-apostles-are-now-on-Facebook-Google.html I don’t think there will be a whole lot of “two way” about it. I do think it’s a PR tool where the Brethren (rather their IT people) will be able to post stuff which I think will be mostly news type stuff, and where people can go an tell them how great they are. I’m sure it will be strictly moderated and all negative or controversial comments will be immediately removed. I sincerely doubt Brethren will respond to anything posted by other users and it’s unlikely they will be made aware of anything more than the number of visitors, likes, etc., unless they look themselves. All of this is, of course, my opinion. It’ll be interesting to see how it actually turns out. Steer clear of it — don’t comment there. I might read it, but expect it to be PR. Kind of like when you do a search on a movie star, you get all the dirt and conflicting opinion about the person. Then you go to their official page and the pictures are clean, the news is sanitized, and its the image they want to portray. Not that GA’s have dirt, but their site is not a place for divergence of opinion on matters that are the most important. SilentDawning wrote:Not that GA’s have dirt ….
Mate, they’ve got dirt. Sweet-heart real estate deals between them, their family members and the Church. Kids who’ve “strayed.” Water skiing at Lake Powell, and not in a white shirt and tie (joke, of course – we all know that Lake Powell is the Lord’s Reservoir and Satan doesn’t have any power over those waters).
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