I’m going to come right out and say I don’t understand texting and other digital means of communication being worthwhile if you don’t do anything with them. They’re distractions from reality, so not much thought could possibly be put into them unless they’re really meaningful conversations. Being constantly accessible isn’t always a good thing, I’ve pretty much left social media entirely because I don’t like how everyone’s company/insight is taken for granted.
This belongs in the bitching thread, whoops.
Well here is one benefit, if you are the praying kind. When my father had his bad fall that eventually ended with him passing away, I had put on the church’s facebook page a request to pray for him about a half hour after the fall. Within 15 minutes, I had dozens of members of my church praying for him.