Many of the speakers at the asifa admitted they never used the internet, They were only repeating “What they were told” They of course were told there is Schmutz there and its terrible.
They were told Blogs have terrible Loshon Harah and terrible things against the Gedolim
They were told People can buy things with a click of a button on Amazon and ebay faster than you can say a Bracha.
They were told marriages were destroyed by FB and Twitter.
They were told correctly, then.
I seriously doubt they were told there are people who make incomes off eBay and Amazon. That you need Blogs, FB and Twitter to promote your items and make sales . That you can make money on Blogs, FB and twitter by managing peoples social media pages.
I will ask again, as I asked about your Ebay comment – are you defending use of social media by sellers, such as yourself, or by all people, so that you can make parnassah?
If the former, it’s not something I can answer simply, since I don’t know enough about social media to know if it can be safely used the way you describe.
If you mean the latter, that’s like saying we should defend gambling so that people can make parnassah from casinos.
I heard the statment “We are clicking ourselves into vegetables” , Well People “Clicking” is how I make money.
Maybe they weren’t talking about you. Undoubtedly, many have clicked their way into oblivion. Should the rabbonim ignore this so as not to make you uncomfortable?
but ALOT of people, In fact probably MORE than are “Schmutz addicts” make part of all of their parnassah from the internet
Again, for the umpteenth plus time, THEY DIDN’T ASSER INTERNET FOR PARNASSAH. Why do you keep insisting that they did?