SOCIAL MEDIA SOAP OPERA

This is part 4 of a 10-part blog series on HOW TO GET YOUR MINISTRY ONLINE. You can follow the DIGITAL SKATEPARK tag or go back to the intro post for links out to the rest of the series.

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In 2006 MySpace was massive! It was the social network of choice. It died a painful death and was subsequently taken over by Facebook. Close to 1 Billion people in the world actively use Facebook. However, while MySpace try desperately to resurrect their way back into the social network spotlight, some have suggested that Facebook is on the decline. The current teenage generation spend less time on Facebook and more time on mobile apps like Instagram and Snapchat. Add to that people being annoyed by constantly changing policies by Facebook regarding advertising, ownership and privacy.

The above paragraph starts to sound like the script of a lame daytime Soap Opera as users move from one network to the next! The point is that social networks will rise and fall. You may be reading this is in the not-too-distant future after the demise of Facebook and the rise of the latest network, YouTwitFace! Whatever it’s called, young people will flock to the popular network of their day fuelling their fear of missing out.

If the popular network keeps changing, it is worth having a home base that remains a constant.

Stay tuned for how-to…

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This series forms the basis of a chapter I wrote in a forthcoming Youth Ministry book to be published by Anglican Youthworks. The rest of the book is written by Scott Petty (Youth Minister from Christ Church St Ives) and is published here with permission.