{"id":101520,"date":"2021-04-21T17:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T21:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101520"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:07:59","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:07:59","slug":"rns-likes-and-prayers-facebook-tests-new-prayer-post-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101520","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Likes and prayers: Facebook tests new \u2018prayer post\u2019 feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the unfamiliar pop-up touting a new feature appeared on Robert P. Jones\u2019 Facebook, the CEO and founder the CEO and founder of PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robertpjones\/status\/1382433129152004096\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted a screen grab to Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWondering what fb algorithm thinks it knows about me?\u201d Jones mused.<\/p>\n<p>The new Facebook feature? Prayer posts. The function will allow members of Facebook groups to ask for and respond to prayer requests.<\/p>\n<p>A Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Religion News Service that the social media platform is currently testing the prayer post feature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2021\/04\/21\/likes-and-prayers-facebook-tests-new-prayer-post-feature\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Facebook is getting into the business of prayer: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fjuyIc4nUf\">https:\/\/t.co\/fjuyIc4nUf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yonat Shimron (@YonatShimron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YonatShimron\/status\/1384974767124533248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the unfamiliar pop-up touting a new feature appeared on Robert P. Jones\u2019 Facebook, the CEO and founder the CEO and founder of PRRI (Public Religion Research Institute) posted a screen grab to Twitter. \u201cWondering what fb algorithm thinks it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=101520\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,94,589,108,95,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101526,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101520\/revisions\/101526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}