The “Five Social Media Trends that are Reshaping Religion” article was written by Elizabeth Drescher. And this article was posted on Religious Dispatches Magazine on December 15, 2011. Elizabeth Drescher is a professor of religious studies and pastoral ministries at Santa Clara University. She is seemingly writing to the more religious audience in this article. The article talks about the effects of social media on religion. It includes medias like Twitter, Facebook, and Apps. Twitter and Facebook have been huge contributors to faith based communities. It says in the article that faith based pages on Facebook are among the top twenty most engaging pages. And that Twitter has most used hash tags that include #Jesus, #God, #Allah, etc. Also in the article was ministries on the go. Where people can check in to places and you can always know where people of your church are. They wanted to use this as a source to always know where to go when they someone. They want the church to be available everywhere. Apps are widely used now, especially for religious reasons. “The number of religiously themed apps is growing”. There are prayer book apps and confession apps. The religious public look towards new rules and guidelines for social media sites from their congregations.
I thought this article was well written. It wasn’t very intriguing and wouldn’t be an article that I would look to read on my own. I wouldn’t say I was part of it’s audience. If it were up to me, I would want religion to not be reshaped by social media. I take it even less seriously from Facebook or Twitter.
I would have to agree with you that I did not find this article to be intriguing. In fact I would tend to believe that social media actually tends to make people less religious.
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