What can you gain from lying on your neighbor? How is it necessary to spread rumors and gossip? What possible gain have you to inherit if all you do all day is talk behind your friend’s back? Sometimes the best way we can move on in our lives and live it fully is to be honest, and trust that our honesty will take us through to real relationships and endeavors. It doesn’t work out well when one spends time lying about their friends, or people they don’t know. I find this to be especially true on social media. People use the media to try to spread lies and get back at people they barely know. It’s dangerous. Use the world we know as a means to an end, a way to get to our peaceful kingdom in Heaven.
And for heaven’s sakes, please stop using the internet to spread lies about people you’ve barely met or know intimately. It’s unkind, unwise, and unpleasing to God. It’s more important to use the internet to find information about what’s going on in our world and to keep communicating with those we love, in case they are not a phone call away.
A Life of Oblivion 