On virtue and visibility

Eddie Arthur offers some good reminders on mass media and true value:

Every now and then, Facebook pops up a suggestion that I should join a Christian group called 'Lets find a million Christians on Facebook' or 'Jesus has the most fans' or words to that effect. . . . But are these groups worth the effort?

The implication is that if lots of people sign up to a Facebook group, or download a single, then it says something positive about the Gospel, but does it?

I think that we have to question whether demonstrating that something is popular makes any comment regarding its value. Pornography, in one form or another, is one of the most popular uses of the Internet; does this mean that pornography is good because millions of people look at it? Of course not. Popularity has never been a good guide to moral issues. Getting a million people to sign up to a Christian group in Facebook proves nothing more than there are a million people signed up to the group.

True.