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Digital Ethics
« on: May 28, 2013, 04:01:16 AM »
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  • The Web is the new agora, that’s a fact. Even in the virtual marketplace, it is necessary however to according to an "etiquette" that disciplines conduct and avoids blunders. These needs are met by the Internet handbook by Don Paolo Padrini, 38 year old pastor of Stazzano, in the province of Alessandria, a technological priest who invented an application for smartphones and tablets called "iBreviary". "Facebook is not God, nor the only means of communication". "Don’t ask your own children for their friendship on social networks". "Do not diminish the importance of Facebook in a child’s  life". In the Internet age, it could also be useful to establish Ten digital Commandments that can help parents and educators who are close to these young people on a daily basis. Fr. Paolo Padrini's CV includes a thesis entitled "Chat: a time and place for meeting and communication".  And in his parish of Stazzano, has furnished a computer to all parishioners unable to attend Mass in the church , so that they can follow the services by virtually participating in their community.  Convinced that "there is no place where the Holy Spirit is not present" and therefore "even the Internet is, or can become, a place of encounter with the sacred".  the priest 2.0 is committed "to bring people closer to God through the We".  Don Padrini aims particularly at young people, the technological generation par excellence, as well as the furthest from traditional contexts of language ​​and communication. Since 2009 - appointed by the Pontifical Council for Social Communications – he coordinates the Vatican project Pope2You.net, the portal by which the Pope approached young people, through a direct connection to Facebook, iPhone and YouTube. The priest has written a true guide for parents and educators who deal with children and youth who are often Facebook dependent or who live most of their social life on the network and on social networks. The volume, easy to read (under 100 pages) also has several practical tips. For example, Fr. Paolo explains to adults how to manage children's profiles on Facebook, pictures and "tag", chat and video chat, Twitter and Instagram, also telling of some educational experiences.  In the handbook Don Padrini also raises some questions: to be or not to be friends with your own children on Facebook? Speaking with them on the network and how?  To which he responds with a set of guidelines, such as "Ask children for passwords, but do not spy on them on the network:  Facebook too can be a place of trust",  "Facebook is not a place to escape or a secret",  "Do not share anything with everyone”.

    http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/rules-of-etiquete/detail/articolo/galateo-15650/