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One of the things we love about working with Facebook is that they have truly pioneered an era of authenticity online.
Before Facebook came along, most internet users had a "handle" they would use for message boards, chatrooms, etc. Most folks wouldn't think of using their real names online a few years ago. Being anonymous or pseduo-anonymous was the acceptable thing to do...
But most everyone is comfortable using their real names on Facebook. In fact, you're forced to use "John Doe" on Facebook, and not "johnnyboy328". Because Facebook has strong privacy settings, Facebook users feel safe displaying their real full names.
We like that model and want to encourage MyChurch users to display their real names as well. So starting next week, we are taking the liberty of using your name as your display name.
Of course - we're also very cognizant of privacy concerns. So 2 safety nets for those who want to remain known as johnnyboy328 or otherwise stay pseudo-anonymous:
1) You can always change your display name (back to your online nickname) by going to your account settings
2) We are also changing your default profile view to be that of "friends and church only" - meaning only the people you're connected with can see your profile. You can make this even tighter by changing it to "friends only" Or if you liked it the way it was before, you can change the setting back to "Anyone" to let the public see you.
Please remember we are making these changes for the good of the community - more authenticity and privacy. Afterall, Church (with a capital C), thrives better with genuinity instead of anonymity. And when members feel safe and comfortable with privacy.
Just to repeat - you can change your settings back to what you had before if you are more comfortable with your nickname. We apologize in advance if this ruins your day or makes you want to leave MyChurch for Myspace :)
Update: We've went back and bolded the parts of this post that a couple folks seem to be missing. We're also deleting comments that miss this point: we are not forcing you to change your profile name or privacy. The only thing that is changing are defaults. And the new defaults will make privacy safer. If you don't like the upcoming changes, it will take you less than 20 seconds to have everything back the way it was before. |
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| September 03, 2009 |
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First, I'd like to thank you for your hard work on this website. I do want to say that some of us joined this mychurch site because it is NOT Facebook. Perhaps we should simply migrate there if it is going to have all of what you consider the Facebook features.
Over the past few months there have been so many changes and I am generally very tolerant of these things, esp. when I am not paying. However, I must tell you in all honesty, that this site has lost many good and faithful Christian believers. Some of this is related to all the changes which have been variously described by many passionate souls here. I want to add my two cents and say that it is now very difficult to find the sense of "community" that once existed here and the sense of unity and encouragement. Is there any REAL reason for all these changes? Have you done a survey of church customers and they have asked for all these changes?
As for privacy issues, I see no reason why we need to have our real names posted. Those of us who know one another and have become good friends, freely share that information with one another and it has been OUR CHOICE to do so. My purpose in coming here to share widely with the public and to keep private information amongst friends. It seems that I will no longer have that choice if I understand your most current changes about to take effect soon. I am saddened by that. Also, I have had the privilege of getting to know many young people here, people who if they were my children, I would not permit them to have their full names, ages etc. for all to see. I have been able to pray for them, counsel them, laugh with them and never ask them for private information. This is how it should be. I will no longer feel that this option is even possible as youth will now have to have private information available only to a very small group of people (imho) or run the risk of exposing themselves to too many out there...for that matter, anyone with safety/security concerns will have the same issues. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| http://www.mychurch.org/user/prayer.php?pr=4330 |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| I am going to have to agree with these guys. I feel in my heart that you guys are doing what you guys want and not for the good of your members. I am not for these changes and if it puts my safety in trouble, which puts the safety of my family in danger, then I will delete mychurch and leave. No questions asked. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| I'm with you guys...and Megan. Be blessed my friends. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| Okay , I have remained silent through the changes, until now. I agree with Stevie Bee, The Talking Mule, and Joyful servant on this one. In addition to disliking this most recent change some of my favorite features of mychurch are now gone. What happened to the search option for blogs? I used that frequently and it enabled me to quickly access an old blog of my own without having to either keep a record of all my blog dates & titles, or have to click through two years of blogs to get to the one I was searching for. Now if I want to send someone a link to an old blog I am wasting precious time searching page by page in order to find something that was once easily accessable. I would also use the search feature to find favorites that others had written so that I could share the words of encouragement, information, whatever with others by sending them the link or to find prayers requests that I wanted to follow up on. In addition, not having latest blog titles on my home page has been very frustrating as that I usually use the format from my previous blog to write my new blog. I have used this site less and less as it has gone from being a user friendly, blog focused site and becoming more like facebook---a site I use to stay connected with friends but hate using for blogging because it does not function like mychurch used to. There are other changes I have not liked but am too pressed for time to discuss those. Well that is my two cents for now. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| Okay so one more thing. The explore option used to give one page with favorites, new blogs, etc. It was an easy way to see all of what was new on one page rather than having to click on each individual explore option. I find many of the changes tedious to the extreme when trying to navigate to things that were once a click away. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| I am new to MyChurch, so I am not sure what this is about. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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I have more readers who know me by this name than my actual name. As long as I can change it back, I am ok with that. I just ask that you let us know the day before you are going to do the change.
Also, I second Coreena's blog search complaint. Not only have I used it a lot in the past, but some of my readers have complained that they had been using some of my postings for teachings and can no longer find them. Neither can I. Perhaps I should have had the foresight of some of the folks like Kathy who started a list of links in her home page. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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1) You can always change your display name (back to your online nickname) by going to your account settings
Thank the Lord!! |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| ok well i don't like the whole changing to your really name but i can deal with it, but PLEASE stop changing things it feels like every time i get on some thing is new and i have 2 find out how 2 use my mychurch all over again |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| Instant Messaging would be nice if they want to change somthing. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| I chose to use My Church instead of Facebook because of the sensitivity and privacy we have here. I do not feel safe on Facebook. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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Dear MyChurch Team,
You have invested a lot of time and energy on all the recent changes. No doubt you've thought through a lot of things and prayed about the format. For your efforts we thank you. Really! :-)
HOWEVER, this whole site is just not as user-friendly as it used to be. I generally enjoy and can can adjust to good change with no problem but it has been increasingly time-consuming to "quickly check on things" here and I find it much harder to keep up with my friends here because of it.
Please consider the thoughts presented by the others here; they aren't just griping. It is a true frustration. We are all having a little more difficulty with the layout in recent months.
My personal specific requests would be for a return to an easier method of checking on one another's blogs, and for the reappearance of some kind of a status update box. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| I know younger teens on here--nice looking gals who've run into issues w/some perv stalkers on here, and they don't want people knowing their real name and especially where they are located. Sometimes I see how some people act on here and think no wonder they won't use their real name, but others do it b/c of privacy, and I can't blame them. Now, me personally, I don't care! I was in street outreach ministry and so am used to people who "could" be weird or dangerous, so I don't care. lol But anyways, just wanted to point out a couple of concerns others may have with this. Me, I really am "Lara Léger" so for me it makes no difference. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| Oh, and some people need a sense of annoymonity for safety and security purposes to blog honestly and openly; Eg. abused women. If they use their real name, their hubby may discover them on here. There are many people on here who only feel safe to bear their soul anonymously. I do have to say that that is a shame they can't do that. :( |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| Well said Lara. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| And well said Barb. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| Yes, and Lara didn't complain openly about any of the other changes, so I hope this doesn't come off as complaining, but I felt it was worth saying something this time. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| i like it either way but iim attracted facebook waaaaay more because of posts like memo, status. and ect.but mostly for chat boxes!!!!!!! those are the best. :) |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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Just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work Mychurch staff. It must sometimes feel like a thankless job, but I for one appreciate all the hard work.
peace |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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Lara, agreed on the privacy concerns. Which is why we're defaulting everyones' profile view to be Church and Friends only. It's following the Facebook model - people have to be connected to you in order to see your profile. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| still waiting for memos |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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Thank you, Joe. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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Even with the profiles defaulting to be viewed by Church and Friends only, I have to say for me, my feeling of safety on this site went way down. I am one of those women that Lara was referencing who has a stalker ex-husband to worry about. I will never register for Facebook for that reason of using your real name. Yes, Facebook has privacy settings but it also gets hacked sometimes. I am actually safe from this change because I never gave MyChurch my actual name; according to my profile here CraftsReen is both my display name and my "real" name. I am not trying to condemn the staff here at MyChurch.. I believe you are trying to make the changes you believe are right and I know you are working hard. But for me, imitating Facebook isn't what I wanted when I joined this site. Its okay and right for a Christian site to be different from the world. I will watch a while longer and see what happens. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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| I was deleted, too. Never had that happen to me before. I even wrote a blog saying it was worth the trouble to be here with my friends. But if they leave...I personally do not like facebook that much. I want to be here. But what I want and what I get maybe two totally different things. |
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| September 04, 2009 |
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Joe, your comment addressing Lara's privacy concerns didn't address mine or Craftsreens. I was saying that this site was a place for people in need. A lot of young people on here are suicidal and/or very emo. They need help. For that matter a lot of others do too. They don't necessarily connect up with people from their church group or friends. There are a lot of prayer warriors on this site who pray for people in need, whether we know them or not. We can no longer do this when default is to friends and church only. Some of us, in fact most of us who are active here, reach out to people well beyond our church memberships and friends. Why is this so difficult to understand? Stevie Bee said it b4 he got deleted when he said much of hte communication was "outside" his church. That is how it is for MANY of us here. While I know it is your site and you can do what you want, I am hoping you will still see the "light" and "reason" of the people who are trying to tell you what is on their hearts and minds. I am not generally a complainer and I don't want this information I am providing to be seen as a complaint either. It is a constructive criticism. My guess is that if you continue down this path, there will be fewer and fewer people who will input here. They will simply migrate elsewhere. I for one am getting closer to that point. My guess is that mychurch will reconsider whether it is getting value for its $100 a month also because it's mission and aim on here is to reach out to those that don't have a church. Based on all your changes so far, it is getting harder and harder to be evangelistic here. You are free to make all the changes you want. The more changes that reflect facebook, I will simply migrate to facebook.I'm sure others will do the same. One of the key things that has people in a tizzy here too is the loss of memos/status updates. We were told it is coming back and it hasn't so far. I assume it isn't coming back anytime soon. Or is it? Since you've implemented prayer requests only, many people have left and young people now use this section for memo updates. Thanks for listening.I for one will see what happens over the next few weeks before I make any decision. I am hoping you will reconsider some of the changes already made. God bless |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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| OK, Joe. You do whatcha gotta. I'm grateful to even have the priviledge to blog here. Thank you. |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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I am with Lara, thank you for the privilege to blog here.
For any interested, I found a spell checker compatible with Internet Explorer, and works on MyChurch blog relies.
Go to http://www.iespell.com/download.php |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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| WHERE IS THE MEMOS???????????????? |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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| BTW, there are places online where I've used my real name for years now. But even on Facebook, if I had the choice I'd be Norm. Names (including nicknames) are important. |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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And why do you think there is confessional. Not *everything* needs to be known. Complete openness to everyone (even in your inner circle) isn't a requirement. Sorry. The more I think about the presumption that I want to "change who I am", the more it irritates me. :p |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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| ok then? |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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Sorry. I really tend to think this is it. Privacy is not just about settings. And it's not about what I can do that is bolded. It's about letting folks know that they can trust those in charge with the information they have. Trusting that your opinion will be heard and be counted with regards to YOUR information. If that trust is lost, the amount of information you're likely to give that person/site/whatever goes down. What I have yet to see is a legitimate reason that *myChurch* has to change what my profile name is. If you want people to have that sense of openness ask them if they would be open to doing it (and then give them a way to do it). It is not telling them (with no real reason other than "Facebook does it") that personal information about them is going to be exposed and if they don't like it they can fix it after the fact. As I've said, I don't personally care about *this* particular change. It's the issue underlying Openness is built upon trust. And trust can be destroyed. |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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| I don't know who is the one in charge here but I'm guessing it's 'Joe'? Well, Joe, I am grateful to be here and I never intend to disrespect anyone. Facebook allows that to happen. Not a good thing. I got a little funny with the conspiricy of big brother using myChurch to hunt us down. That was my intentions, was to be humorous, but I didn't appear that way to you, apparently. I sometimes see a comment that at first seems not to be good, but I then go to that persons profile and read some of their blogs and comments to see their angle. Usually, I find they were also different than I supposed because I didn't know them and their ways. My thinking can be different than their's and lead me to make the wrong conclusion. That most assurredly happened here. The one thing I do feel is our right to keep our identity in our control. This is your site. You let us use it (thanks a million) and we make valuable friendships that will probably last a lifetime. I have told many people why I use 'The Talking Mule' and now will tell you. It is not a silly immature handle as it is a profound witness that catches people's attention. My name is Anthony Scott Shelnutt. My initials are A.S.S. Thus, the 'Mule'. My Pastor suggested mule (as apposed to you know what) so not to offend anybody when I gave my testimony. God can use me, even a mule, for His glory. I doubted my self worth and used the ridicule I took as a reason I was no good to Him. Numbers 22:28 told me different. I get a kick out of the people here like higherground, Joyful Servant, Craftsreen, and others and the names they use describes them to me. When I want to go to higherground, I look her up and she takes me there. Say with the others. Makes this more interesting to me. Look at the responses to me and ask yourself, does it uplift and encourage? Is it okay to laugh? Is anyone blessed by this? I think so. They tell me so. All I want to do is be a blessing. There is enough stress in the world. This is my escape if you will. I have to go back 'out there' and my friends help me here do that. Just want them to stay and keep things that way. Amen. |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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I can think of a few who I would like to see go. But, mostly, there are good people who are misinformed. I always tell people to check out what I say. But, some here want you to take what they say as Gospel. They don't like being wrong. No ome has to think like I do. But I have seen insults to people who had another opinion. They are starved for truth as so many are in this world.
This is, in my opion, why many are leaving the churches. I had believed, because I have studied, and continue to, God's Word that I could make a differance. But ,some "eletist" comes along waving some degee that has nothing to do with true understanding. How about bringing "spell chek" bak, please!! |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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| Golden, see Gary's remark in the earlier comment's and you can download a spellcheck here.http://www.iespell.com/download.php Thanks again Gary! Works like a charm. |
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| September 05, 2009 |
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| Whew! I hope the MyChurch Team has time to read all this! :-) |
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| September 06, 2009 |
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| Thaks Talking, I did download it and it shows up nowhere on my PC. Not in tools, view, etc |
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| September 06, 2009 |
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| golden, reboot the pc. then reopen internet explorer. when you open then under tools, towards the bottom you should see "ispell" |
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| September 06, 2009 |
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| Change is what has our Economy failing right now........... |
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| September 06, 2009 |
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| bring the memos baq! plz?? |
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| September 06, 2009 |
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Thank you, mychurch, for this (free) site. I know God put me here (and has given me reservations about Facebood itself). If you are following God's instructions with these changes, then I am for them. Only you and God know. I will pray for everyone on this site. |
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| September 06, 2009 |
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I do have one other comment. For those of us who chose this site to make new friends and expand our Christian fellowship, how will we be able to do that if we can only view our own church and friends? Not a complaint, just a question. If there will be a way to change my view back from church and friends only, then please give us instruction, because I am computer illiterate (another reason God put me here :-)
I don't use this site to talk to my friends who go to my church - I talk to them in person. I do trust God to protect me on this site, which is why I chose to use my real name (even after my Dad searched for my name on your site and got 30 porn websites - thank you for cleaning that up). Please don't take offense from the people (like me) who are giving our opinions. |
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| September 06, 2009 |
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| The admins said that once the change takes affect, you can go back into settings, under privacy and change it back to public. |
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| September 06, 2009 |
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| Sorry, I guess I don't read very well. I see you did say we can change our views back to anyone. What if I am the only one who does that, though (to give an extreme example)? Please make it clear how to do that, because some of us don't read or learn very well (I'm still struggling with the other recent changes:-) |
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| September 07, 2009 |
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| I don't use MY real name on Facebook - you don't know who might be looking at it! |
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| September 07, 2009 |
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| And what happened to my church's calendar? I am the moderator, and *I* can't find it! And yes, I want to alert my members, esp the youth, about this pending name change. They will need to know to change their settings. |
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| September 07, 2009 |
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WHAT ABOUT MEMOS??! |
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| September 07, 2009 |
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| I think they got rid of the memos because some people weren't using them correctly. But I'm just guessing. |
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| September 07, 2009 |
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| i don't wanna myspace. facebook is what i want. just three to four more years. |
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| September 07, 2009 |
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| oh ok?? |
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| September 07, 2009 |
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When you light the lamp do you put it under the bed or do you put it on the lamp stand for all to see? The gospel will not be preached by people who put their names under the pseudo names and attack the children of GOD under hideouts. I do not mean only doctrinal differences but in tempting and leading astry the unsuspecting souls into acts against what the Holy Spirit commands. Gal 5:16-21. These acts cannot allow children of God grow in faith when the "mature Christians" are killing the faith of others by what they display in hideouts.
Doctrinal differences are what make us seek God, preach the Gospel and learn from each other but hackers not ONLY hacking for money hide in the believers and prey on souls are very dangerous to the souls aspiring to know God and His kingdom. The Gospel aims at saving as many souls as the Lord God can enable us in the shorts time given to us. How can we reach souls if we are in hideout with funny motives which I am sure are keeping some of us in veils. Come out of psuedo names and acts of darkness and witness firmly for the Lord. Do not be ashamed of witnessing for Lord and He will not be ashamed to stand with you before His Holy famaily in heaven.
Money hackers are using fake names and addresses should the christian community act like them? |
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| September 07, 2009 |
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2) We are also changing your default profile view to be that of "friends and church only" - meaning only the people you're connected with can see your profile. You can make this even tighter by changing it to "friends only" Or if you liked it the way it was before, you can change the setting back to "Anyone" to let the public see you.
I have not seen this last one in the settings. I need this one. Heavenly Blessings and Love to you all.
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| September 07, 2009 |
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I've always used my name...and thus far--I've had very few problems and those problems have come from people who hide behind fake names. I have hundreds of people on myspace and facebook that I've never met and if they get rude or obscene--I delete them...or I can hide their feed...it's very easy, and usually your private information can remain private on any site.
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| September 08, 2009 |
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| I liked MyChurch a lot better when it wasn't trying to be Facebook! I don't really care for Facebook, and never really have. Even MySpace has tried to be more like Facebook, which, in my opinion, has made MySpace even less desirable. MyChuch used to be my favorite social networking site, but is quickly becoming just okay, like all the other social networking sites. My adivise is to not try to be so much like Facebook and be more like the MyChurch I used to know. Thanks for listening to my little rant : ) |
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| September 08, 2009 |
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I am unable to see any of my friends' pages (except MyChurch themselves...)! It says "restricted to friends and church only" but I am already their friend! What the heck happened? I liked MyChurch better before the updates. The homepage was more streamlined, I could find everything, and everything was usable and likeable. I have to ask for help now to do anything. I don't mean to rant, but I liked everything they had back when I first joined last summer. MyChurch is quickly becoming one of my less-visited sites. Which is a shame, because I loved visiting. |
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| September 08, 2009 |
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| Thanks Mike n Laura; I prefer to hav my settings as friends only, so i removed the "auto" setting, and changed it to what I wanted. I hope this works. |
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| September 08, 2009 |
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Another good change! |
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| September 08, 2009 |
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Lord Jesus, We lift up all the prayer request & ask that Your Will be done here on earth as it is in heaven. We ask that whatever is not of You that You will intercede and work it out in Your perfect timing. We rebuke the enemy in Your Name Jesus & ask that he get behind us. Lord, use this site for Your Will, Your Purposes, Your Glory, and For Your Holy & Precious Name. We commit all of the changes on myChurch, the hurt feelings & confusion into Your mighty Hands. Lord, soften hearts & renew minds. May we be Your disciples who reflect Your Light & Shine Your Love....no matter what, when, where or to whom. Thank you for Your forgiveness, Your grace, Your mercy & Your love. In Your Name Jesus. Amen!!!
The enemy would love to shut down myChurch in a second---so lets cover this site in prayer including the leaders and those who use it.
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| September 08, 2009 |
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I want to thank you from bottom of my heart Teri Gainer, who has inspired me and I will listen
to what she says. i appreciate that you cared so much to pray for us, my tears
are sheding joy to God and Jesus Christ, In Jesus's name amen amen!!! |
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| September 08, 2009 |
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| Before assuming everyone with a pesudo or fake name is trying to cause problems or lead anyone astray, you need to read one of my blogs...'My Name is Anthony". Then, do not attempt to throw stones at someone with one, lest you are proven to be doing satans work, yourself. I explain why I use what I use and unless you haven't noticed lately, people are leaving churches just for this reason. Being judged by the 'Holier Than Thou' crowd, it's what the Pharasee's did and whom Jesus scorned the most. Please READ then decide if it is the truth and uplifting. I rest my case. |
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| September 08, 2009 |
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With as much digital information that is available to anyone, including our own government, (for any use good or bad) I wonder why anyone would use their real names on the internet for anything. |
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| September 08, 2009 |
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| Amen, Jewlz! |
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| September 09, 2009 |
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| Amen Jewlz, and thank you, Miss Teri! |
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| September 09, 2009 |
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| Nothing to hide |
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| September 09, 2009 |
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| WHAT ABOUT USING FAKE NAMES AND FAKE PHOTO OF DEAD OR LIVING PEOPLE BUT YOU ARE A DIFFERENT PERSON AMONG GOD'S FLOK(S) ON CHRISTIAN SITES? TELL US THE AIM. |
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| September 09, 2009 |
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| Pastor Patrick, sir ,I looked at your previous post and with the use of all caps now infers you are screaming. Why? Will yelling make your point of view correct? No, it will not. I take it you did not read my blog as so to explain to you my purpose for the name I use here. I have nothing to hide, in fact, I post my testimony on my profile which, unlike you, I do not hide behide a private setting. Mine is public. I want people to see my testimony and to look at the blogs I've posted. Those blogs also state who I am, why I use the name here, and what God does for me. If you look at the responses I get, people not only understand, but enjoy the fellowship also. It's called fun. You, sir, seem to want to take the fun out of this place. God has a sense of humor. Laughter is medicine for the body. The bible says so. You do not have to participate, but to condem others for having a laugh is absurd. I have only one photo posted and that is me, the way I am. God saved me from going to hell and if you were saved like that, you'd be all smiles, too. I think you meant to say 'folk(s) but if you are refering to my name on facebook, you miss the link to myChurch on it. In your haste to judge, you fail to examine the evidence against me. There is none. Don't know about you. Your evidence is hidden, except for the screaming. If you weren't refering to me personally, I apologize. I was the one responding to you so I took it as you were responding back. I hope you take a look in the other people's view before passing judgement. |
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| September 09, 2009 |
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| I stand corrected. You have changed your profile to public. I am going to read about you as I hope you do the same to me. Amen, brother. Fight the 'good' fight. |
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| September 09, 2009 |
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My comment was not directly pointing at you. No. Really No. It was a general one.
The Holy Spirit inspired me to write. |
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| September 09, 2009 |
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| Oh, ok. I was reading your page and that is awesome what you've done. I am in an Assembly of God church here in Georgia. Wouldn't a mission trip be just the thing? |
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| September 10, 2009 |
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I use my favorite hymn as my screen name because after blogging for some time on here using my real name, one of my son's found it and made fun of my blogs. My son is not walking with the Lord currently. He called me at midnight one night after talking to his friend, Matt, and said my picture looked radical. I had tape across my mouth at a pro life rally. My name and story was pretty open on there and he had just finished a course on internet privacy and the like and said I should not be so out there. I deleted everything, blogs and all. I restarted with a screen name and then found this wonderful picture of Popeye and Olive Oyl that depicted me and my husband. He served twenty years in the military and I was dubbed Olive Oyl in my skinny days as a young girl for CB radio use. Anyone remember CB radios?
Anyway. I am not hiding per se but honoring my son and his fear that I am too open.
Everyone is not on the same page of course as to the whys of this and yes there are pervs and uglies even on here, no doubt.
Young folks are wise to use fake names. People get used to a screen name and it almost seems like their name.
I was a bit "nervous" when my real name popped up without warning. I got instructions from Mike n Laura and Jewlz pointed me to his stuff and I am all set.
I hate that I deleted a lot of my old blogs and lost them trying to please my son while half awake that night he called. I think that a warning would have been the right thing to do because you can't possibly know what is going on in our homes. But God bless you all for this site and my friends on here.
I am thankful and spend most mornings at least reading one or two blogs. I am started on the right foot with the word and an opportunity to pray. Many hugs. |
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| October 11, 2009 |
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| that's cool. I like facebook so it's all good with me. but I'm a mobile user and I think it would be cool if y'all like made a moblie site for mychurch. where people can still upload photos and check their mail and all that. I hope u might look into that. oh and since we are becoming more like facebook why don't we get a little status bar? haha |
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| November 09, 2009 |
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One thing I do not like about facebook is anyone seems to be able to change your profile pages and some of the things they put on it can be ugly and horible. |
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| November 09, 2009 |
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| I CANNOT CHANGE MY NAME - WHERE DO I REPORT THIS??? HELP!!! |
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