Lately there has been a lot of hullabaloo about banning Facebook and the Internet by some charedi rabbis as well as high schools.i for the most part tune these tidbits out like white noise but there was one tidbit that really tickled my funny bone.the chachmah was that one shouldn't go on Facebook because one might have an affair. I would assume the rabbaim are referring to married people going on Facebook. I for one am single and can barely get a date from Facebook yet the rabbaim are worried that the married people are having extra marital affairs via Facebook .i think that married people who are on frumster as well as
Jdate and Facebook are probably more successful at finding dates than singles are on these sites. If you are looking for trouble you will find it . News flash , people were having affairs way before the Internet and Facebook existed.
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I had a post about this a few weeks ago when a Chabad girls high school banned facebook. I think the idea is that facebook allows for things that wouldnt have happened offline. Guys and girls that normally wouldnt mingle suddenly bump into each other online and figure that because its "only virtual" its OK. I know some guys who got into some pretty sticky situations from things like that. I agree with the "ban".
I would say that it is a little different in the case for high school students but I do think that if someone is looking for trouble they are going to find it facebook or not.
Perhaps, but without FB and Craigslist, a lot of affairs that did happen, wouldn't have. I'm sure there were lots of people in the past who wanted to have affairs, but didn't have the means to, so didn't. Now, it's significantly easier. It can even happen sort of 'accidentally', as TP said, where they use the excuse "its only virtual, just for fun" and then build what they think is a connection to another, and before you know it, BAM! an affair. And this can happen to good men and women who otherwise would have never been in this situation or ever desired it.
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