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Mormon Conspiracy and twitter
May 1, 2009 by Giuseppe Martinengo 2 Comments | Filed in Internet & Media, Mormon Church
I have discovered Twitter not long ago (as many others) and I have been tracking a few hashtags such as Mormon. Today I noticed that someone posted the following:
Mormon leader of NOM appears to advocate overthrow of US government “by whatever means necessary”.
Then several others repeated the same over and over again. I tried to post something explaining the position of the Mormon Church, but it is a useless endeavor. There are several people out there who simply repeat over and over again anything they can find to attack the Mormon Church. I wonder why they do not talk about something positive and uplifting instead.
In any case, it is obvious that Twitter is not a good place to have a serious discussion about Mormonism because it is based on short messages that can easily become slogan thrown out there to attack Mormons.
Other attacks-slogans sound like this:
These Mormon girls are so east to manipulate!
or
Does a “Well Behaved Mormon Woman” keep trying to impose Mormon dogma on the rest of the country, and use our laws to do so?
and so on…
I wonder if Twitter is here to stay, and probably it is. I can see the positive side of it, but at the same time it is obvious that it can easily become an instrument to spread rumors and attacks against people and organizations. However, the problem, as usual, is not the new medium, but some of the people who use it.
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Yeah, I wonder how Twitter can be used effectively. It seems like the Church’s YouTube involvement is successful so far–any ideas on how to use Twitter to similar positive ends?
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Giuseppe Martinengo Reply:
May 27th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Jeff,
I have used a little bit Twitter but I am still not convinced that is something I personally want to be involved in. However, there may be ways of using it to benefit the Church. Just take a look at how CNN uses it.
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