Dear Internet,

I’m a first time writer, long time watcher. I’ve been enjoying  what you have to offer for over a decade but I’ve never contributed to you. I’ve just kind of been enjoying free photoshop tutorials and videos of people being hit in the groin.

All that changed when I went to the Echo Conference in Dallas a few weeks ago. I thought I was a designer, but all the real designers were using twitter. Well, to be a designer I needed twitter, so I signed up. All the other designers were using iPhones to update their twitters, so I got one of those too. People were using flickr accounts to exchange ideas, so I signed up and started using it.

The next step was a blog. Now I’ve done a blog before, but it was more of a journal and filled stupid ideas and angst. I won’t post it here, but if you ever find just know that I’m sorry for anything in there that may offend you (i.e. everything). Now I see blogs and social media as a potential form of out reach for churches and ministries. I want to reach a younger generation for Christ and this is the chosen medium of communication for that generation. I’d be somewhat of a hypocrite and a failure at church communications if I didn’t fully embrace the platform, so dang it, here I am.

So now I’m a facebooking, twittering, flickr’ing, blogging nerd. I was a huge techy and nerd before, but managed to stay away from the this all controlling social media stuff.

Sincerely,

Nerdy Christian