Me and the Lord Jesus on Facebook. Using Twitter one with Christ. Social networking, the Lord Jesus, and me

What does God have to do with the social networks? What does Jesus have to do with Facebook? Can you actually have God seen or expressed on twitter? In the world of free expression of everything that's going through your head, everything you see, everything you want to do, all your emotions, the things around you, etc - can you actually say something meaningful about the Lord Jesus? Can you find Jesus on twitter? Do you see Christ on facebook? Is the word of God on Google+? - these questions many Christians face and deal with in one way or another, mostly ignoring the Lord when it comes to social networking...

It's free to use the social networks, and this also means that you can literally say whatever you want, you can post pictures and videos and other media items - freely! The social networks allow you not only to connect with people you know, but with people you never met nor will ever meet, with all kinds of superstars and dignitaries, famous people or infamous persons, and you can "become best friends" with people you have no idea how they look like, what do they really do, what's their personality like, etc. Many times I am asked - probably TOO many times I am asked, Stefan, do you really know EACH and EVERY ONE of your over 2.8K friends on Facebook? Do you know each one of your over 1K followers on twitter? I stopped trying to answer this kind of questions, even though for a while people would start naming my friends and asking me "how did you meet them? Who are they?"

But what about expressing Christ on Facebook? How about speaking the Word of God on twitter? What if we +1 the articles and websites with spiritual and nourishing food? How is our being on the social networks - do we use these intensely personal and private websites (which happens in public...) together with the Lord? Have we ever asked the Lord to be with us as we browsed our friends' pictures on Facebook? Have we ever prayed for our followers or the ones we follow and chat with on twitter? Did we ever ask the Lord's advice and feeling as we use the social networks? Or do we just post how we feel ("I'm bored", "what is everyone doing - I'm dead bored", etc - the most popular status updates), what we think about (cool quotes from famous rappers, movies, world renown philosophers, inspirational quotes, etc), or where we're going / what we're doing... ?

No, we don't have to be super-spiritual while using Facebook or twitter, we can and should write things we are interested in, but what if we share with the ones we're friends with / the ones we follow something of our enjoyment of the Lord? Have you ever felt responsible for your friends on facebook? Has it ever crossed your mind that you owe the gospel to each and every friend you have on facebook? You may be among max. 100 people in school, but the average number of friends one has on facebook these days is close to 500, and on twitter is rising up to 100-200... We as Christians - no matter how we feel, what we had for breakfast, or what we are thinking of right now - owe all the people we interact with THE GOSPEL!

And the gospel is simply the Word of God! If we enjoy something in the Word, why not share a verse on Facebook as a status update? If we enjoyed a song or a hymn chorus, why not share it either on twitter, on facebook, in a facebook group or on a facebook page, on our google + stream, or even as our Skype status! All these means of communication and interacting are just helping us express how we really feel - we love the Lord Jesus! "I don't care now how I feel / I just know that this is real / And I know - O, Jesus, You're alive" in me! This is the reality! The Lord Jesus is living again IN ME, in YOU, wherever you are!

Are you on facebook? The Lord Jesus is right there with you on facebook. Are you tweeting away all kinds of random things going through your mind or some feelings you wish you had? The Lord Jesus is inside of you as you punch in the keys or gently touch the touch-screen keyboard of your smartphone! Our being on the social networks with our friends is so that we would bring our friends to the Lord, pray for them, and then "give them food"! We have the food - we have Jesus Christ as the tree of life, we eat Him every day, He is our constitution, and... we can minister food to others! A Tweet like, O Lord Jesus, I love You! - so real, so genuine, coming out of your inner being, is so much better and more helpful than your opinion on the recent football game!

... the question still remains. Am I one with the Lord Jesus as I am using Facebook? Do I express the Lord as I tweet, check into foursquare, +1 things away, or share links on the social networks I'm active on? ...

Photo From London :) Priceless Shoes store

[one of the many shops called, priceless shoes, with less expensive shoes, scattered all around the UK :) ]

[what do YOU think? What is Your experience related to using the social networks and also touching the Lord as we post stuff there? Did you touch the Lord in this aspect as you were "networking"? Share your experience / opinion below...] 

some of the best articles I contributed to recently

I can't believe it's been almost 1 month since I wrote on my own blog! :) In the meantime, working pretty hard to write almost daily on other blogs, even creating/updating some new interesting blogs, like - prayers - pray unceasingly, and A God-Man - A normal Christian in whom Christ lives! Here are some of my favourite and also some of the best/most interesting articles from these blogs:

• God's intention and His heart's desire is fully related to man;
• Christ becomes our life subjectively by us eating of Him;
• Lord Jesus, gain what You are after today!
• things you write / post / keep in a diary, if u have one;
• what does google know about you.... almost everything!

and many others. Check out my bloglist on the left hand side, and.... u can even follow me on twitter! :)

top blackberry apps AND fun iPhone apps for learning - article reviews

Via itpromarketer there is a short list of the Top 10 BlackBerry Apps, Plus the 2 Most Anticipated - though I don't have a blackberry, sometimes we all bump into these apps. And - All these top blackberry apps are free!

Top 10 BlackBerry Apps, Plus the 2 Most Anticipated

1. BlackBerry App World
2. TwitterBerry
3. Instango
4. Facebook
5. BBFileScout
6. YouMail
7. iheartradio
8. Google Voice
9. Google Maps
10. BerryTorch
    

you will notice that in this list most of them are social media/online related: twitter/facebook/google/maps/radio online :)
Anticipated apps: SkyFire and Tweeteev
Continue to read this whole article online - Top 10 BlackBerry Apps, Plus the 2 Most Anticipated.

Though I have read this article a while ago and checked out some of the apps listed here(even these apps are for kids, they surely are fun for older ones also!), now I am listing some of the 50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning - via the onlineultrasoundschool website. Put the iPhone and the kids together with some of the apps listed below to keep the kids busy as they prepare themselves for school! The apps listed below are by category:

50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning

• Animals - iPhone apps - ABC Animals, Animal Memory Match, Landleben, etc
• Art - Softick, Doodle Kids, Spin Art, etc
• Music - Midomi, MiniPiano, Ocarina, etc
• Problem Solving - Best of I Spy, Bobby Carrot Forever, touchPhysics, Where’s Gumbo, etc
• Reading and Writing - iWriteWords, Rulla, StoryNory, Word Scramble, etc
• Math - Basic Maths, Clock It Lite, Coin Math, PopMath, etc
• Study Aids - Brain Toot, iFlipr 1.11, Mental Case, StudyCards, etc
  

Continue to read this article - with the complete list of apps and some description to each - the 50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning.

Misaras Stefan - challenge - get my name back

right now, if you search on google for Stefan Misaras, you get.... 1410 results, and this blog is not even on the 1st page! The same, if you search for Misaras Stefan, same number of results, just the order changes a little. The results I get are mainly:

• stefan misaras at blogflux - my previous blog, while in Romania;
• misaras stefan at linkedln - business connections and profile;
• misaras stefan at facebook.com - though I don't really like it, I have this listing also;
• stefan misaras at american chronicle - tried once to become a writer, they accepted me, but it didn't quite work. Guess what: I still have a link there with them!
• stefan misaras personal blog at tehnorati.ro - indexed and still there in tehnorati.ro, though the blog does not exist for more than 2 years now....
• misaras stefan profile at tutoriale.ro - I wrote some tutorials, SEO related, in romanian;
• stefan misaras at shoemoney's blog - SEO geek(I hope he still is one) that once made some interesting SEO grey-hat contests;
• stefan misaras at stilxxi.ro blog - I used to manage and post there at my previous job, and I enjoyed it; it may be said that it was there that I got a "passion" for blogging, whether thematic/corporate or personal;
• misaras stefan at globe of blogs - by birthday or by name;
• misaras stefan at live blogs - that's a surprise, but it looks like I'm there too;
• stefan misaras at seopedia blog - recommending the blog I managed, stilxxi.ro/blog;
• stefan misaras comments on spam - a anti-spam mtg we had in Romania once, trying to cure this problem....
• stefan misaras at sparksdirect - in yahoo I'm no 1!

and the list can go on and on. I may add some more links, especially the interesting ones, as I find them - as I find myself online. What's the point? Let me see.... I would like to "claim my name back" - it is in several places online, and so I want now that, if someone searches for

• stefan misaras in google,
• stefan misaras in ask,
• stefan misaras in live,
• misaras stefan in yahoo,

or in any other search engine, my blog, that is, this blog, would be the first result. Let me see: do you think I can do this? We'll try.... organic results and not too much SEO, but just gradually building....