Myspace & culture

I’ve spent a lot of time talking with friends on shaping culture, the cultural mandate and how the gospel includes our interaction with culture. Tuesday night I’m leading our small group 2nd study in the Society Room study, this time looking at how culture can be impacted by the church if Christianity is around for the next 1000 years, and what it would mean for the church to think long term, rather than just assuming Jesus will return in our lifetime (as the church effectively has been for 2000 years - there are some exceptions, e.g. Navigators). One of our small groupers has been blogging his thoughts, which are very interesting. Kevin Kelly of wired magazine is the author of the article the study is based round.

So in thinking about all this, I was amused last night to hear a song by Scouting for Girls (am ashamed to say I’d never heard of them…….culturally aware I am not) called “you looked fitter in your myspace picture“, which is about a guy who met up with an old school friend on myspace, thought she looked great and so met up in person, only to find out it was a false picture. What blew me away, apart from the amusing lyrics, was that myspace and facebook are making it into music jargon, and are already shaping culture. And they’ve been around how long? It just demonstrates how rapidly things are changing.