Social Networks - Are You Connected to Us

Collectively, social networks are among the fastest growing categories of Internet websites. Within the USA, MySpace is the biggest social network and facebook is growing rapidly to catch it. These social networks have become great ways for friends to stay in touch, especially when there are miles or even oceans and continents separating them.

Over the past several months, I have been investigating social networks for Book of Hope. They are very popular among youth around the world and we are looking for ways to connect with them for the purpose of evangelizing and promoting discipleship activities on the web. As my investigation progressed, an amazing thing happened, my friend network started to grow. Friends from school, friends from church, friends from our district churches whom we met on our last itineration, even fellow missionary friends from around the world. Tammy and I both are now using facebook as a significant means of keeping in touch with our friends, without regard to what country we are in on any given day. Even Rebecca is getting into the social network arena with her own page.

Another means of staying in touch on social networks is through applications. Facebook have an application called Causes. People can join Causes even if they are not your direct friends. And friends can recruit people to join a cause, helping the cause's network to grow even larger. We have created a cause called The Brown Family - Your World Missionaries. We use this clause to communicate ministry updates as well as special prayer requests. If you are on facebook. please click here to go directly to the cause. Once there, to join our cause, click on the Join link under our picture on the right side of the page.