31% Of Christians Giving Up Social Media For Lent

But will they be able to keep their lenten vows?

A recent survey by the Barna Group, a California research firm, found that 16 percent of those who observe Lent planned to curtail their use of sites like Facebook and Twitter. By contrast, some other well-known vices — swearing and smoking, for example — were cited by no more than 2 percent of Lent observers as their abstention item of choice. (Chocolate remained the biggie: 30 percent said they were banning the sweet stuff from their diet throughout Lent.)

Further proof of the abstaining-from-social media trend: Twitter is running third in OpenBible.info’s annual list of the top 100 most-mentioned Lenten sacrifices. (The list is compiled by reviewing what people are saying on Twitter, oddly enough.) And the broader category of “social networking” itself is ranking seventh. (Chocolate holds the No. 2 spot in OpenBible.info’s list.)

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.