One of Many Negative Experience With Christian Social Networking.

I have been thinking and planning on writing about my past forum and social networking experiences.  This one is under the Religion and Spirituality heading because this story evolves around Christianity.  But I have some other ones that don't evolve around Christianity.

@Tinywhisper11 asked me to tag her in my next post on this subject.  I probably will talk about my experiences in the Model Airplane forums, and the Linux forums as well.  But they probably won't be mixed into Religion & Spirituality unless they serve to prove a point.

Usually when I write my stuff, I just get a spontaneous thought or memory that I feel that might make a good topic.  Or it is something that is bugging me, or has bugged me for a very long time.  A very long time could be literally years of bad memories, that I don't know what to do with them.  I want to learn from my past mistakes and become a better person for it.  However not everything is my fault, and I feel like I got to make weird adjustments for other folk weirdness.  This is one of those stories.  At least it feels that way to me.

Looking back at my internet memories, I have never been fully happy with Christian Social Networking or Forums.  In my opinion they both have the same problem.  When you mix different Christian Denominations together, all they want to do is debate with each other.  People actually seem to have fun, or perhaps they really think they are making a difference by doing this.  One person told me that He thought that there is a lot of bad theology and He had to correct people so that a  new person to the faith, can get the correct information.

It is my opinion, that doing what He was or is doing is helping anything.  I told him it is like walking into a room full of people and everyone is speaking their views.  The new person doesn't have a clue who is right and who is wrong.

Personally I felt like I'm not good enough to debate anything.  So I tend to keep my beliefs to myself.  However in a one on one discussion, I have no problem telling someone what my views are.  But I don't want it to turn into an argument.  I just want to talk about about it, and compare notes with the other person.

My main reason, for joining Christian Social Networking and Forums, is to have fellowship with other believers.  These people don't seem to care about fellowship.  They only seem to care about spreading their views, and who is right and who is wrong.

Like I have done many times before, I was on a Christian Social Networking Site, looking to make friends.  For some reason a Woman contacted me, and invited me to a new social networking site she had just created.  She told me it is a place for like minded people like us.  It was going to be a place for friendships.  She named it the friendship society.  Here I was again, joining another social networking site.  It wasn't all that "Christian"  but I was under the impression that I could openly share like I would on a Christian Social and Forum sites.  Back then I didn't even feel comfortable openly sharing like I do now.  As a result, I would write or post some pictures and then when I felt like it, I would take that information back down.  I just wasn't confident in what I was doing.  I didn't want to get into trouble.

It wasn't that long after she started the site, that she said she was too busy to maintain it.  So she converted it into a group under another guy's social networking site.  I forget how I was moved over to it.  But as I was doing what I always did, He direct messaged me, or back then we always called it Private Messages.   Since it was just between two people, and the public didn't see it.  He told me how He didn't like it that I would post and then remove my posts.  For that reason He was thinking about banning me.  And then He talked about how He didn't like Bible thumpers.  I was a bit taken back by this.  Cause I didn't think of myself as a Bible thumper.  I didn't even think that what I was posting was Bible thumping.  Some Christian Metal lyrics by a band call tourniquet was about as close to the Bible as I was posting at that time.   He also told me that He was making this social networking for his wife to have once He's gone.  I thought this was a very strange person I'm talking too.  So I checked to see if I could delete my account.  I was glad that I found that feature, and deleted my account and left.  I hadn't made any real friends there anyways.

As I was writing this, I did some google searches.  As far as I can tell, it looks like his site is no longer around.  She's still got a page up, but it is still appears to be inactive since 2010.