Hi, my name is Greg, and I’m addicted to Facebook. Sometimes, I spend time reading other people’s status updates. The really sad part is that sometimes I sit in front of my computer waiting for responses and likes to my posts and blogs. That’s me, the social wonder of the world.

I do think Facebook is good for some things. You can reconnect with old friends and keep in touch with them and catch up. You can reminisce about old times. Facebook is a great way to find out about what’s going on around you and to find out how to pray for each other.

Then again, Facebook can be a place to hide. You get to select what you want people to see of you, whether it be your privacy settings or what you post and comment on. You choose how people will see you, whether it be someone who’s into the party scene and the night life or someone who’s into books and movies.

You can be as fake as you want on facebook and no one will know. Well, God will know, but that’s kind of a given. You can present a self who’s got it all together and has life figured out and knows where they’re going. You can be that poster child for the American dream.

Or you can be real. You can admit that you’re far from having anything figured out. You can confess that most of the time you really don’t know what you’re doing. You can belong to the fellowship of the broken, the outcast, the needy, the ashamed, and the lost.

It’s really okay to share your weaknesses, because when you do, there are probably ten others out there who will be able to let go of the lie that they are the only one who struggles with that issue. You tell them that no one is perfect, no one has life under control, no one can say they have arrived. We are all fallen and messed up and we all need God.

It’s also okay to be goofy. It’s okay to post random stupid, silly stuff on facebook. Just remember that among those who read your post could be a potential future employer or even a potential future spouse. You never know.

I for one am going to keep being real and keep being goofy. It may not be popular, but it’s who I am. I am going to be a part of the chain on facebook that passes along love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness whenever possible.

I hope you will, too.