By Craig Regan
Holy smoke! The Australian newspaper online reports The Pope wants people using the Internerds to chill out just a tad.
Pope Benedict XVI hailed the benefits of silent reflection to stop being "bombarded" by information from the internet but said social networks could be useful modes of communication.
"People today are frequently bombarded with answers to questions they have never asked and to needs of which they were unaware," the Pope said.
That quote’s scarily reminiscent of ex-US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld’s pronouncement about “known knowns” but we’ll move on.
He’s not urging people to stop typing in caps. Just to give their Blackberries a break.
Easier said than done.
There is a Papal Twitter feed but it’s not really a happening place. His Holiness has tweeted six times in eight months.
A vision of the Pope surfing the Net takes a bit of conjouring. I wonder if he’s ever stumbled across this site promoting merchandise like the Pope Soap On a Rope?
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