Unfortunately the majority of those that work in ministry are probably near the bottom…
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dannyjbixby says
Ouch.
Ok, you’re right….
Greg says
Pretty good list.
What about those that still use an email address from their ISP? (i.e. @rr.sc.com or @comcast.net) Are they one step below or above the AOL users?
Jared says
haha this is amazing and true!
Kyle Reed says
This is absolutely true.
I do not even think it is wrong to judge people for using hotmail or yahoo, its just a fact.
Yohan Perera says
🙂 Oh My! When I read this I realized that it’s almost true…
gunnard says
so true….
jaledwith says
With regard to your final analysis: Sometimes the truth makes me angry.
Lumped in with @aol.com ought to be @[ISP]. Actually, those folks probably say “backslash” instead of “slash.”
Daniel says
hahaha I have gmail! Woo! I also always click the “advanced install” and know how to use control panel and firefox, so I guess that qualifies nowadays as “knows way around computer”.
BenJPickett says
Interesting… and it feels very true for the most part.
I have a yahoo, gmail and hotmail. They all have features that I find useful but I don’t use or prefer one over another most of my communication is done over phone, through text and on facebook.
When I give out an email address I give them my yahoo so I don’t get garbage to the gmail which I give out to people and organizations that I trust. The hotmail I use exclusively for sky drive, hard to beat 25GB of free online storage, and my Microsoft network for volume licensing, business account and zune account.
Justin Piercy says
I was doing good… until my domain went temporarily down this week… doh!
Rick says
The comment at the bottom was unnecessary and probably untrue.
Daniel says
I don’t know, while my youth pastor is pretty tech savvy, most of the ministry leaders I know aren’t experts. Then again, then don’t seem below average for their age.
On the other hand, in the past coming years, I’m seeing more and more ministers putting a significant effort into learning technology; they see it as a new, powerful medium, and they’re willing to move forward into it.
The last two revival pastors I have both had facebooks, and they both seem to be able to use it well.
In addition, most “professional” speakers, people like Clayton King, David Nasser, etc, they all have twitters, facebooks, and websites.
I think the comment was somewhat accurate, since most of the leaders of ministry tend to be older, but when you compare them to non-leaders and non-Christians of comparable ages and backgrounds, they are significantly more savvy, because they’ve put the work into it.
That really makes sense. Learning technology isn’t hard, and while I’m young and can’t speak a whole lot, I think a lot of people can agree with me in that the most important thing in learning technology is a refusal to be intimidated and hard determination.
Think about it. The first time you learned something that had to do with technology. Not a structured class, something you did solo. Remember the first time you messed with programming? Control Panel? Remember the sheer intimidation you felt when you saw all the information presented? You might of just closed it right there.
But you wouldn’t be reading this blog if that was the way it stayed. You must of eventually got back on that horse, and pushed through the intimidation, the confusion, and the stress.
I think its always honorable that any older minister has a facebook, or any email. They grew up in a really different era, so its impressive when they adapt, in my opinion at least.
Steve Grove says
I use yahoo because I can access all my other accounts on it as well as use it wherever I am and have an internet connection. My wife, an author, has to use her IMac to get her email, and then I have add the account whenever we travel to her gmail. She can’t access her old emails, though, where as I can!
Because I started with the yahoo one, I don’t want to switch it after several years because it has been on my “business” card and website from the beginning.