http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/dontquoteme/archive/2009/01/24/the-pope-v-facebook.aspxI&#39;m torn on this one. On the one hand, I tend toward curmudgeonly skepticism of new technologies . On the other hand, I also tend toward curmudgeonly skepticism of the Vatican. Anyway, here&#39;s what Benedict XVI--who, it should be noted, just startedenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/dontquoteme/archive/2009/01/24/the-pope-v-facebook.aspx#256579Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:26:11 GMTad053fdd-4c7f-49f6-bf6d-6c53a7e614d5:256579Jenn Mears Web Design | Hmmm….<p>Pingback from &nbsp;Jenn Mears Web Design | Hmmm&amp;#8230;.</p> <img src="http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=256579" width="1" height="1">http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/dontquoteme/archive/2009/01/24/the-pope-v-facebook.aspx#243557Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:25:17 GMTad053fdd-4c7f-49f6-bf6d-6c53a7e614d5:243557ani dalit<p>Maybe Benedict's re-inclusion of those bishops reflects his own social isolation, whether through participating in MyFace or reading old texts. &nbsp;(Don't mean to be disrespectful, but I couldn't resist connecting all those dots.)</p> <img src="http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=243557" width="1" height="1">http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/dontquoteme/archive/2009/01/24/the-pope-v-facebook.aspx#242708Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:50:23 GMTad053fdd-4c7f-49f6-bf6d-6c53a7e614d5:242708Adam Gaffin<p>Hey, you're too young to be a curmudgeon!</p> <p>Swap in &quot;television&quot; or &quot;telephone&quot; or, heck &quot;printing press&quot; for &quot;digital social networks&quot; and his rantlet would read exactly the same. </p> <p>Name pretty much anything and you can warn about the perils of abusing it (forget the printing press, I bet people isolated themselves in Ur when they churned out all those clay tablets). It's as trenchant a warning as it is pointless.</p> <img src="http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/aggbug.aspx?PostID=242708" width="1" height="1">