Guess what? While your child is out on their mission, their investigators, companions' families, ward members and others are going to look them up on the social media sites like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube. Hopefully since your child has chosen to go on a mission, they have been living a life worthy of being a representative of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and that is reflected in their use of social media. But people will check up on them because they will want to know that they are "for real" and that they practise what they preach. Still, it would not hurt to clean up their social media pages for their mission by adding a picture of them in their missionary garb and their favorite scripture.
Also another piece of advice for LDS missionaries and their parents: While our missionary is serving, we post his weekly e-mails to his Facebook page to help let his friends and our family know how he is doing. One of his friends started a group on Facebook that receives her weekly mission updates, posted by her mother. It has been really great to see the reactions of their friends of other faiths and a great way to keep in touch. Just a thought...
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