Social media brought me to faith, but it can also be used to harm

‘If it wasn’t for online friends sharing the Gospel, I don’t think I’d be a Christian. However, the negative side is that algorithms are designed to keep us online, so that our data can be harvested and sold to companies so they can market products to us,’ says Kate Orson.

I recently watched the Netflix documentary The Social Documentary and a quote from one of the interviewees; writer and computer scientist John Lanier really stuck with me. He was talking about how if something online is given for free, such as Facebook, then we humans are actually the product, or to put it more accurately. “It’s the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own behaviour and perception that is the product.”