I’ve wanted to blog about Facebook for quite some time, but now it seems there is no need. LifeChurch.tv’s Bobby Gruenewald beat me to it, and he did a great job at that. First, Bobby did a series titled “What’s All This Hype About Facebook” (part 1, part 2, and part 3). Then, Bobby shared a little bit about the potential he sees for Facebook as a platform in a post titled “Facebook Church.”
If you’re already on the Facebook bandwagon, you can befriend Collide Magazine here. If you aren’t on Facebook yet, start an account and explore some of the functionality. My guess is that you’ll stumble onto a couple of ways you could use Facebook to communicate and maintain relationships with people at your church or in your community. As for Collide, I feel like we’ve only dipped our toe in Facebook. I’m looking forward to exploring all of the new applications being created for Facebook to see what’s out there.
For those of you already using Facebook in a ministry context, I’d love to hear more about your approach and what kind of results you’re seeing.