MennoNet.com

JohnH wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 2:37 pm

Soloist wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 2:35 pm Wife: they created CloudVeil, which is a filtered version of telegram, and I don’t know how their affiliation filter effects what people can access. I’m unaffiliated Mennonite on it, so I don’t have any limitations, but hypothetically, if you’re Holdeman or certain other groups, it’s more locked down, so I would assume they actually do care about it.

It's only locked down more for a few groups that requested it like Nationwide.

Holdemans are, in general, transitioning to being a "self-filtering" culture.

Soloist wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2026 3:04 pm Every single group I’ve seen follows a general pattern on one stage moving on to the next.

No internet
#internet is Babylon#
Library internet with a brother observing
#making it hard to use is good#
Heavily filtered school internet for adult members.
#having to leave the house to use it is good
Whitelist on smartphones
#its necessary for work#
Will the app list ever end?
Filtered internet in homes with accountability reports to ministers or brothers appointed to it.
#i didn’t like having to maintain it, I could never use it when I needed it#
Justifiable YouTube use gets questionable watching guides to make sandwiches
Filtered internet accountable to someone
#the internet is a useful tool as long as we listen to the holy spirit#
Some social media starts to slip in
Accountability to spouse or someone
#Following this you hear things like we need to learn to swim#
Time wasting is not uncommon
At some point in here instagram, twitter, social media of all sorts

Every single group follows this pattern and justifies it as okay.

Bootstrap wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2026 5:48 pm
Where does MennoNet fit in the sequence?

Filtered internet in homes with accountability reports to ministers or brothers appointed to it.

Soloist wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 2:35 pm
Every single group I’ve seen follows a general pattern on one stage moving on to the next.

No internet
#internet is Babylon#
Library internet with a brother observing
#making it hard to use is good#
Heavily filtered school internet for adult members.
#having to leave the house to use it is good
Whitelist on smartphones
#its necessary for work#
Will the app list ever end?
Filtered internet in homes with accountability reports to ministers or brothers appointed to it.
#i didn’t like having to maintain it, I could never use it when I needed it#
Justifiable YouTube use gets questionable watching guides to make sandwiches
Filtered internet accountable to someone
#the internet is a useful tool as long as we listen to the holy spirit#
Some social media starts to slip in
Accountability to spouse or someone
#Following this you hear things like we need to learn to swim#
Time wasting is not uncommon
At some point in here instagram, twitter, social media of all sorts

Every single group follows this pattern and justifies it as okay.

Soloist wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2026 3:04 pm Justifiable YouTube use gets questionable watching guides to make sandwiches

readrevelations1to22 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2026 10:39 pm
So does this seem to be a one way street or have any communities gone the other direction with a gradual reduction of technology overtime?

Furthermore given the change in tech since the industrial revolution, what will this pattern look like in 50 years? I'm guessing there could be many stages beyond acceptance of social media at that point?

Szdfan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2026 12:17 am

Soloist wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2026 3:04 pm Justifiable YouTube use gets questionable watching guides to make sandwiches

Sandwiches?

readrevelations1to22 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2026 10:39 pm

Soloist wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2026 2:35 pm
Every single group I’ve seen follows a general pattern on one stage moving on to the next.

No internet
#internet is Babylon#
Library internet with a brother observing
#making it hard to use is good#
Heavily filtered school internet for adult members.
#having to leave the house to use it is good
Whitelist on smartphones
#its necessary for work#
Will the app list ever end?
Filtered internet in homes with accountability reports to ministers or brothers appointed to it.
#i didn’t like having to maintain it, I could never use it when I needed it#
Justifiable YouTube use gets questionable watching guides to make sandwiches
Filtered internet accountable to someone
#the internet is a useful tool as long as we listen to the holy spirit#
Some social media starts to slip in
Accountability to spouse or someone
#Following this you hear things like we need to learn to swim#
Time wasting is not uncommon
At some point in here instagram, twitter, social media of all sorts

Every single group follows this pattern and justifies it as okay.

So does this seem to be a one way street or have any communities gone the other direction with a gradual reduction of technology overtime?

JohnH wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2026 12:25 am In my church affiliation, Internet always remained quite filtered but cellphones came in the back door. Due to lack of exposure to the Internet many people had little understanding they were the same thing.