Thou Shalt Not Text

The Bible already provides you with some pretty clear guidelines to live your life by and now the use of technology may be added to that list.

Vincent Nichols is the Archbishop of Westminster in England and he is concerned that the excessive use of e-mails and text messages is creating shallow friendships and undermining community life. Nichols also said that popular networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter cause young people to form transient relationships which upon their collapse can lead people to suicide.

Nichols says he is worried that excessive or exclusive use of texts and emails means that as a society we have lost the ability to communicate with each other in a way that builds an inter-personal community. Social networking sites are also blamed for making the number of friends a person has online more important than the quality of those relationships and when people spend their days in front of a computer monitor they are forgetting all their social skills and missing out on interacting with real people. So tear yourself away from the world wide web and follow the new communications commandment, thou shalt not text.