KAPIL SIBAL SYNDROME ????

It was only yesterday that I received commandments regarding facebook usage from university.    

 It’s interesting to note that a pastor in New Jersey had issued a similar notice to the church members.

What’s happening to universities and churches?? Do we need a regulation or is it a kapil sibal syndrome that needs to ignored.

Pastor had an interesting observation to make regarding his decision to Ban Facebook, it read something like this…

Thou shall not Facebook

A New Jersey pastor says that the marriage counseling that he’s been doing over the past 18 months suggests that the social networking site - by allowing people to reconnect with old flames - is creating marital trouble.

His solution: married couples should delete their Facebook accounts. And, to set an example, he is ordering some 50 married church officials to either quit the site or resign from their leadership positions. It’s certainly a more extreme push than his previous suggestion that married couples share their login information with each other.

My university also gave a similar explanation regarding the new regulations on facebook usage by her students.

Cant quote the same here, because of the fear of being regulated…

Is the pastor right???? Do we need regulations as my university says??Or is it just a Kapil Sibal syndrome????

I wouldn’t say Facebook is the problem. What I would say is we live in a rapidly changing world, and we are facing stresses and opportunities that we’ve never had to face before. Facebook doesn’t create dissatisfied marriages. People who are dissatisfied now have better means of creating support systems and networks that are much more vast, and it’s much easier to connect with people that way.

So while Facebook may be the outlet where people in troubled marriages go for support or even online relationships that are more satisfying than the home relationship, it seems like a bit of a stretch to think that deleting a Facebook account will change things for some husbands and wives.

And the idea that a pastor can force a church leader to resign his position over membership in a social networking site - even if for a well-intended reason - is definitely an abuse of power. Just because some people aren’t strong or secure enough in their marriages to be able to interact with others on the Internet without cheating, doesn’t mean that everyone who is married and on Facebook will cave to the temptations put out there.

At least that’s how I see it.  What do you think?