The glass bedroom is such a nice metaphor on so many levels
From Computerworld’s e-Tales:
Holy Spirit goes spooky
This is spooky. Arizona pastor Irwin Alton has gone all digital and hooked into MySpace to discover his parishioners’ sins. He then castigates those poor lambs who have strayed from the narrow way, from the pulpit. He doesn’t actually name them — just their sins. One poor chap thought the Holy Spirit had gotten into the pastor — it hadn’t, he’d just been reading the man’s blog.
E-tales has always had doubts about the wisdom of posting too much personal stuff online — and the techie pulpit-pontificator just feeds the paranoia. You know: just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean the God police aren’t out to get you.
Yet another piece to add to the growing pile of circumstantial (but still strangely compelling) evidence that people see their blogs/MySpace/Facebook as a private social space. Newsflash: people in the seat in front of you don’t block your ears when you start telling your mate the latest gossip, people go hunting for their old school friends on Facebook (hoping they can read without friending in order to compare lives), and people will explore your publically posted indiscretions if you don’t take precautions.
Then again, this is a story from the US. They’re still struggling to teach people safe sex, let alone safe text…
