J.S. Park: Caution: Bloggers Are Not Your Counselors

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“Tumblr friends, please keep in mind that most of us here are 15 to 20 years old.  Even if you’re 25 and married, you’re still a kid.  That’s how the news would describe you if you ended up there.  I’ve barely just turned 30 and my mom still thinks I’m a baby.  That’s the straight-up truth; let’s not deny that.

So if you’re asking for Life-Altering Advice or seeking the Answers to the Universe through an Ask Box, please consider that even the wisest-sounding person on Tumblr doesn’t know everything.  Most of us have hardly been through much of anything.

I would actually propose that most “advice”  here is just flowery, modified, spur-of-the-moment, this-is-what-I-would-do fluff that the blogger hardly even follows, and would not work in the gritty reality of an upside-down life.  Most bloggers here don’t care about your well-being, but care about getting reblogs and followers and a fanclub.”
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I’ve been wanting to write this exact post for some time now, but didn’t want to come off as a jerk (not that JS Park did).

It’s so sad to see people hinge on the advice of 15-20somethings that have little to no pastoral training or experience.  What’s worse is that very few answers I’ve seen point people back to a community/church.  So when people are given advice to follow God better/pray more/ask for forgiveness/etc., it’s very rarely ever done in the context of community and support.  And that’s why some people fail spiritually - because of a weak connection to the Body of Christ.