SOCIAL MEDIA

Prepared & Presented by JR Victor

WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?

Social media is the collective of online
communications channels dedicated
to community-based input, interaction,
content-sharing and collaboration.

TYPES OF SOCIAL MEDIA

SOCIAL NETWORKING &
CONNECTING: Services that allow you to
connect with other people of similar interests
and background.
MICRO BLOGGING: Services that focus
on short updates that are pushed out to
anyone subscribed to receive the update
BOOKMARKING: Services that allow you
to save, organize and manage links to various
websites and resources around the internet
MEDIA SHARING: Services that allow you to
save, organize and manage links to various
websites and resources around the internet
BLOGS & FORUMS: Online forums allow
members to hold conversations by posting
messages.
SOCIAL NEWS: Services that allow people to
post various news items or links to outside articles
and then allows its users to vote on the items

COMPLEXITY OF SOCIAL MEDIA

COMMON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

CURRENT REALITIES IN SOCIAL MEDIA

1. No Technological boundaries
2. Social media becomes a window
through which we see and
experience the world around us
3. Attracts the young-Generation Z
4. It is viral and not merely
temporary
5. Difficulty in authenticity,
credibility and validation of facts
6. Addictive and hinders personal
interaction
7. Connects instantaneously and
globally

THE CHURCH & SOCIAL MEDIA

The Church sees these media as gifts
of God' which, in accordance with his
providential design, unite men in
brotherhood and so help them to
cooperate with his plan for their
salvation (Pope Puis XII - Miranda
Pope Pius XII Encyclical Miranda Prorsus

"Communication is a means of expressing

the missionary vocation of the entire Church;
today the social networks are one way to
experience this call to discover the beauty of
faith, the beauty of encountering Christ. In
the area of communications too, we need a
Church capable of bringing warmth and of
stirring hearts" (Pope Francis' Message for the
48th World Communications Day [WCD], 2014

Prorsus 1957)

EVANGELIZATION THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

Evangelizing is in fact the grace and vocation proper to the
Church, her deepest identity. She exists in order to
evangelize(#14) For the Church, evangelizing means
bringing the Good News into all the strata of humanity, and
through its influence transforming humanity from within and
making it new: "Now I am making the whole of creation
new. (#18) Pope Paul VI- Evangelii Nuntiandi

Pope Francis Tweets in order to evangelize

Pope Francis evangelizing

through Pinrest

 Works of Mercy through Social Media

Revealing the Face of Christ through the Social
Media

3 STAGES TO EVANGELIZE THROUGH

SOCIAL MEDIA

PURGATION

ILLUMINATION

(Cleanse From
Sin)

(Connect with
Christ)

UNIFICATION
(Be One with Christ)

A 3 Stage process of:

1. Purging our Social Media
interaction from Sin,
Vanity and selfishness
2. Illuminating others
through Love and Works
of Mercy through Social
Media
3. Connecting with Others
through Total Obedience
to the Holy Spirit

3 STAGES TO EVANGELIZE THROUGH

SOCIAL MEDIA

PURGATION

ILLUMINATION

(Cleanse From
Sin)

(Connect with
Christ)

UNIFICATION
(Be One with Christ)

STAGE 1: Purging our Social

Media interaction from Sin,
Vanity and selfishness:
1. Creating Authenticity
2. Fast from excessive and
unnecessary use of Social
Media
3. Eliminate and purge vain
and sinful contents

3 STAGES TO EVANGELIZE THROUGH

SOCIAL MEDIA

PURGATION

ILLUMINATION

(Cleanse From
Sin)

(Connect with
Christ)

UNIFICATION
(Be One with Christ)

STAGE 2: Illuminating others

through Love and Works of
Mercy through Social Media
1. Attract self and others to
Truth through social. Be
Innovative and creative
media content
2. Touch the heart
3. Touching lives Works of
Mercy and connecting
others to Christ

3 STAGES TO EVANGELIZE THROUGH

SOCIAL MEDIA

PURGATION

ILLUMINATION

(Cleanse From
Sin)

(Connect with
Christ)

UNIFICATION
(Be One with Christ)

STAGE 3: Connecting with

Others through Total
Obedience to the Holy Spirit
1. Pray
2. Be obedient before you
connect through the
Social Media.
3. Be brave and embrace
Truth & Justice in the
media- Be obedient to the
Word of God

HOW DO YOU SHARE MERCY ACROSS

THE SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS?

WORKSHOP ACTIVITY

Learn more about the media and its reach

Create impact of social media in the newsroom
Become a dynamic storyteller
Start Mobile journalism
Live blogs, Youth Group blogs
Prayer networks
Use attractive info graphics
Use authentic and credible contents- TRUTH
Care for others, Listen, educate and Love
Be creative and Innovative
Be sensitive to cultural differences
Be sensitive to privacy of others
Mind your mannersmind your language
DONT OVERINDULGE See video in link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HffWFd_6bJ0

And FinallyIt is not just posting images of Christ and Saints.

It is Witnessing to Christ through the media.

See video (link below) on how the young are getting

innovative and creative to reach out to others through
media content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_bWNSEwe0U

DANGER!!! Social Media can lead to Depression and break relationships

See videos in link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXdVPLj_pIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k-gPPN2dUo