Unfriended: Finding True Community in a Disconnected Culture

Product DescriptionWe live in a hyperconnected world, and yet we?re more disconnected than ever. We spend more time scrolling through Instagram than we do talking with our families. we've never had more ?friends,? but we have no one to meet for coffee. Joe Battaglia understands that we are wired to have community, and that smartphones cannot meet our needs for love, acceptance, touch, and connection. InUnfriended, Battaglia uses research, personal insight, and biblical truths to help you:leave behind the anonymity of the Internet and get face-to-face with people.go beyond the ?like? button and establish meaningful relationships.get out from behind your screen and enjoy God's creation.avoid toxic social media debates and become a vehicle of change.Unfriended will help you shake off your digital fatigue and get back to real-life, real-world relationships with real people. Additional guest chapters by Iris C. O?Brien, Michael Guillen, Donna Rice Hughes, and Delilah.ReviewThe greatest commandment is summarized to love God and love your neighbor. InUnfriended, Joe Battaglia provides a blueprint to share the love of God by joyfully and purposefully engaging in a loving community.- Steve Fedyski, COO Pure Flix Entertainment Information is a game changer and affects our choices. What if the road we initially imagined was taking us toward our desired destination of ?community? was, in fact, taking us the opposite direction? Joe Battaglia?s book about social media and its impact on our deep longing for true community is a timely read.  - Amy Grant, singer/songwriterOnce again Joe Battaglia has put pen to paper withUnfriended to explore another crucial piece of what makes us human. He studies an extremely complex issue that faces us today, one that has no simple answers. We all know the power of social media-the entire world of computers, smartphones, and little boxes that answer questions for us when called upon. Often lives are saved and true change is brought forth with their invention. But like so many things, there is a dark side to technological achievement that lingers and threatens. Are we capable of knowing where the line begins and ends in our reliance on it? Which, of course, leads to the greater question: Do we have the moral foundation to know where this line even is? The answer to this is yes! God has drawn that line quite clearly and placed it in each of our hearts. But what if we?re already ?too far gone? by the very thing itself-by social media and its ability to disconnect as readily as connect-to reach within ourselves and know where to begin looking? This is all heavy stuff, but in the hands of Joe, a friend I will never ?unfriend,? he lays it all out as only he can do in simple and easy servings that shed needed light.- Corbin Bernsen, producer, director, and actor in L.A. Law, Major League, and Psych What a timely book! What wisdom, insight, and clarity! And what a doable and necessary plan to change the world, or at least our part in it.Unfriended is a powerful, practical, necessary, and needed book. But more than that, Joe Battaglia is my friend who lives what he teaches. He?s the real deal, and one should always trust words from someone who does more than preach. Read this book and give it to everyone you know!- Dr. Steve Brown, author, host of Key Life Radio NetworkMy friend, Joe Battaglia, aims squarely and hits the target in his new bookUnfriended about what?s really at the core of much of our societal angst in a social media driven culture-the hunger in our hearts for real community. we've been looking for love in all the wrong places, and Joe points us back in the right direction to describe what we are all hard wired for-a meaningful relationship with God and each other.- Rita Cosby, Emmy-winning TV and radio host, bestselling author it'seems like we?re angry all the time. And we?re losing our way in how to establish true relationships. My friend Jo