Rețele de socializare – un nou câmp misionar. O perspectivă creștin – ortodoxă
Socialization networks – a new missionary field. A Christian perspective-orthodox

Summary/Abstract: The Internet contributes to revolutionary changes in trade, education, politics, journalism, and to relations between nations and between cultures, changes that are not just about the way that peoplecommunicate, but also how they conceive their lives. Also, the development of the technique has led to the emergence of new means of communication. Thus, given the growing access of people to smartphones and to the Internet, we can see that social networks are currently a powerful means of accessing information (some true, other not) and communicating. Analyzing only one of the 21 existing social networks (each with dozens and hundreds of branches or applications), namely Facebook, FaceBrands (Service for communications, analytics and statistics about Facebook) transmitted through a press release that on the 10th January 2017 the figure of the Facebook user accounts, in Romania, was 9,6 million compared to 500 thousand on January, 1st, 20102 from a population of around 19 million people3. A percentage of 50, 52%. If, at the beginning of the Christian era the Holy Apostles usedall the technical means of their time, on the same model the servants of the Orthodox Church have the duty to use the latest means of communication of time. This is because the proclamation of the Gospel,the teachings of faith, the elements of Catechism and the support of ecclesial promotions are a necessity and a duty according to the Holy Commandment that has travelled the millennia: „Therefore, learn all nations, by baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit (Mt. 28, 19)”. Thus, we can speak about an adaptation in the sphere of communication that leads to communion, and not to the renunciation or betrayal of moral and spiritual values and teachings. This is why social networks can represent a missionary field and cultural factors that play an important role in the development of society at local, national, community and spiritual level in the light of the common goodin a spirit of solidarity.

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