like a fire

It’s not myspace it’s His space, is the tagline for this new social networking site. This site offers connections to thousands of other Christians who “share your likes and interests”. The look and feel of the site is much like myspace without the racy dating ads and you probably wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

Having said this, and even acknowledging that I would rather have teens on this site than myspace, I really doubt that it will make it. I could say that mysapce is just too far intrenched in the lives of teens now or that this trend is already starting to lose interest in many teens, but that wouldn;t be the reason I think it won’t stick.

There is just something about sanitized life that most people find repulsive and contrived. Most people, not just teens, won’t opt for a sanitized version of anything for the simply reason that they want to be out where everybody is. Call it herd mentality if you want, but very few people are actually capable and wanting to be out there on their own. And that is what they will be with this site. Maybe they can get some of their friends to sign up with them, but the rest of the school will use myspace and they will be segregating themselves from that.

And that is what Christians do best sometimes to our own shame. We segregate ourselves and leave people behind. Time will tell I guess. Thanks to Justin for the heads up