When 株ing Isn't Caring
株ing ? who could be against that? Or, in today’s online world, who could even 避ける it? Anyone using the web will have noticed that every article sports 多重の ways of letting your 接触するs know what a 広大な／多数の／重要な read it was. Twitter uses ‘retweeting’; on Facebook it’s ‘liking’; on Pinterest it’s ‘pinning’. We wander through the 事実上の world, scattering reproductions of what we 遭遇（する） to left and 権利. These 株ing 機械装置s are a big part of why they call it social マスコミ.
But it’s very possible to 株 from bad 動機s, or to 株 with bad 影響s. Beware in particular of the に引き続いて five evils:
1. Attacking people
Social マスコミ is the modern 集会 point of the pitchfork-（権力などを）行使するing 暴徒, with Twitter 存在 a 特に 正規の／正選手 発生地. Examples can be multiplied of people 存在 chased out of the 職業s, homes and lives by a 激流 of 乱用 or ridicule from hordes of strangers who （問題を）取り上げる one or two 批判的な 発言する／表明するs and amplify them into a 叫び声をあげる.
予定 to his 表明するd support for 伝統的な marriage, Brendan Eich was hounded from his 職業 as CEO of Mozilla after nine days by an online ギャング（団）, even as those on both 味方するs of the 問題／発行する inside the Mozilla 事業／計画（する） called for 静める reflection. A 選び出す／独身 貧しく-裁判官d tweet from Justine Sacco, a PR director, 原因（となる）d her to lose her 職業 and move from New York to Ethiopia. The Twittersphere took 楽しみ in her 差し迫った 悲惨 as she flew across Africa, oblivious to the growing whirlwind. Ironically, the man who started that 嵐／襲撃する, magazine editor Sam Biddle, ended up under 強襲，強姦 in a very 類似の way a year later, over a tweet about いじめ（る）ing.
I’m sure no Christian would 故意に want to 達成する such ends, but it’s very 平易な to become a small cog in that large machine, out of a 願望（する） to be part of the group, part of the fun, to be ‘in’ rather than ‘out’. Think very hard before 存在 party to the public shaming of someone you don’t know. God says those who have truly sinned will see 司法（官） 結局; that 過程 rarely needs help from you.
‘Whoever derides their 隣人 has no sense, but the one who has understanding 持つ／拘留するs their tongue.’ (Proverbs 11:12)
2. Spreading lies
‘A 嘘（をつく） will go 一連の会議、交渉／完成する the world while truth is pulling its boots on.’
The first search 攻撃する，衝突する for the above 引用する せいにするs it to 示す Twain, the second to Winston Churchill. (It was 現実に said by Charles Spurgeon.) And this neatly illustrates the 正確 problem. Many items 株d on social マスコミ are designed to shock, to 原因（となる） 乱暴／暴力を加える, or to 確認する our political 見解（をとる）s or our opinions of others. 株ing such things with like-minded friends shows them we are on the 味方する of good (this 現象 now has a 指名する ? ‘virtue signalling’). But for that 推論する／理由 this is also the content we are least 怪しげな of. How can it be wrong? I agree with it!
However, it turns out that much or most of it is, on closer examination, 誤って導くing, partly wrong or 完全に 誤った. A 最近の example was a montage of two photos of the House of ありふれたs ? a 近づく-empty house purportedly discussing 福利事業 削減（する）s, and a 十分な one discussing a 支払う／賃金 rise for MPs. Except the captions were (効果的に) lies. This happens in Christian circles too; a photo captioned as Christians 燃やすd alive by イスラム教徒s in Nigeria turned out to be the 影響 of a gas タンカー 爆発 in the Congo.
Who has time to do fact checking? 井戸／弁護士席, if you don’t, then maybe you don’t have time to 株 it either. If you must 株, do not 一時停止する your 批判的な faculties when 株ing anything, 特に that which 確認するs your pre-存在するing opinions (‘Repost this if you agree!’). We are called to be people of truth.
‘The one who 明言する／公表するs his 事例／患者 first seems 権利, until the other comes and 診察するs him.’ (Proverbs 18:17)
3. 促進するing sin
Sin can be entertaining. In fact, the world often finds it so. And, to our shame, いつかs so do we. Those Ten Sassy Ways To 捨てる Your Boyfriend By Text may be world-class putdowns, but is this behaviour to be 促進するd? You’ve just spent five minutes playing Peach, or Celebrity 底（に届く）?, but you should not assuage your nagging 犯罪 at doing so by trying to make sure others 株 in it.
Most viral content will fit the world’s 勝つ／広く一帯に広がるing social and cultural narratives, whose 身元確認，身分証明 of what is 価値のある is utterly skewed. And the only 推論する／理由 it 控訴，上告s to us must be that we have let our values be skewed at the same angle.
演習 discernment in both what you read and what you 株. A good 支配する of thumb: ‘Would I be happy to 株 this with my 牧師?’
‘The discerning heart 捜し出すs knowledge, but the mouth of a fool 料金d on folly. (Proverbs 15:14)
4. Wasting time
Even if the 支配する 事柄 株d is not 活発に glorifying sin, it can be encouraging sin in the reader by 押し進めるing them to waste their God-given time. We should be keen to make the best use of our short life in bringing in God’s kingdom here on earth. Do you really have time for 25 推論する／理由s You Should Never Visit Greece or 19 Grooming Tips Every Guy Needs To Know? The website Buzzfeed is the malevolent Shelob at the centre of a twisty web of ‘listicles’, which can 次第に損なう your attention for far longer than you would ever spend in the Bible. Here’s a 原則: if the 肩書を与える of an article starts with a number, it’s not going to be 価値（がある） reading.
There is, of course, a wonderful place for 緩和 and leisure in God’s world. But viral content is the junk food of recreation. It’s 集まり-produced in enormous 量s, cheap and 満足させるs 簡潔に, yet an hour after 消費するing it you’ve forgotten what it was like and are just as hungry as you were before. Learn to recognise and 避ける ‘click-bait’ ? articles written not to 知らせる or bless, but to 生成する advertising impressions.
‘All hard work brings a 利益（をあげる）, but mere talk leads only to poverty.’ (Proverbs 14:23)
5. 避けるing 活動／戦闘
? ‘They are 投票（する）ing to 完全に legalise abortion tomorrow!’
? ‘I know, it’s terrible!’
? ‘So what have you done about it?’
? ‘井戸／弁護士席, I clicked “Like” on the （選挙などの）運動をする page on Facebook, and then 株d it with all my friends, so they could click “Like” too.’
Clicktivism is slacktivism, not activism. In the age of social マスコミ, getting 50,000 調印するd up to some online 原因（となる） or other is 平易な, and 無視（する）ing the resulting roll of 事実上の paper is just as 平易な. But there is a real 消極的な 影響 in the self-満足させるd feeling of thinking you’ve 現実に done something, when in fact you 港／避難所’t. This is a manifestation of sloth ? a 願望（する） for glory later without hard work now.
If you 現実に care about an 問題／発行する, do something about it that takes time. Pray for at least five minutes ? on the same 支配する. 令状 a letter, using an actual pen. Find out who would be a good person to call, and call them. Armchair 乱暴／暴力を加える is impotent. 肯定的な kingdom change in the world is not ‘click and collect’.
‘Sluggards do not plough in season; so at 収穫 time they look but find nothing.’ (Proverbs 20:4)
So why are you 株ing?
Are you 存在 careful to make sure you are 存在 a 肯定的な blessing to others, or are your 動機s more about blessing yourself? The gospel call to love our 隣人 延長するs to what we put in 前線 of their 注目する，もくろむs.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is 権利, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable―if anything is excellent or praiseworthy―株 only such things. And of those few, even those in moderation.
Gervase Markham lives in Darnall, Sheffield with his wife and three small boys, and is a member of The （人が）群がるd House church. 接触する him.
This article was 初めは published in Evangelicals Now. It may be 再生するd and 修正するd under the Creative ありふれたs CC-BY-SA 4.0 International licence.