12:09 PM Wed, Jan 28, 2009 | Permalink
By Robert Whitcomb  Email this author | Email this entry |
Pope Benedict XVI has a new YouTube channel and that's fine, but he makes the following warning to those who think that friendship on a screen is the same as friendship in person:
"The concept of friendship has enjoyed a renewed prominence in the vocabulary of the new digital social networks that have emerged in the last few years. The concept is one of the noblest achievements of human culture. ... We should be careful, therefore, never to trivialize the concept or the experience of friendship. It would be sad if our desire to sustain and develop on-line friendships were to be at the cost of our availability to engage with our families, our neighbors and those we meet in the daily reality of our places of work, education and recreation. If the desire for virtual connectedness becomes obsessive, it may in fact function to isolate individuals from real social interaction while also disrupting the patterns of rest, silence and reflection that are necessary for healthy human development."
I know what he means. I spend about 12 hours a day on computers...
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Amen to that. Longer email to follow.
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