Instagram Accounts for Relief Society, Young Women, Primary General Presidencies
Members of the general presidencies of the Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary now have official Instagram accounts to connect with members around the world. The following are links to the nine women General Officers’ Instagram accounts: Relief Society: Jean B....
President Ballard: The Church Needs “Modern Stripling Warriors”
President M. Russell Ballard spoke at a devotional address at Ensign College yesterday about the blessings and distractions of technology and social media. Here are some of the concepts he covered: A smartphone or tablet can be a blessing, but when its use begins to...
Secure Your Church Account with Two-Step Verification
Two-Step Verification is an additional security feature for your Church Account that helps prevent anyone from using your account even if they know your password. Get started at account.ChurchofJesusChrist.org and choose Two-Step Verification under Security Settings....
Church Publishes Media Safety Website
The Church has published a Media Safety site with principles and ideas to help you stay safe while using media and technology. The site is now part of the Life Help resources. (From the main menu on ChurchofJesusChrist.org, select Living Life and then Life Help.) The...
Supporting Your Child’s Growth
The Children and Youth section of the Church’s website has a series of articles to help parents improve their ability to support their child’s growth. The Supporting Your Child’s Growth page provides Ideas for parents on how they can help their children...
What Is Google Photos and How Can It Help You with Family History?
From the FamilySearch Blog: Some of the richest pieces of our family’s history come in the form of photos. Being able to take and store pictures of family members, past and present, has become a vital part of recording our family story. There are many resources and...
New Gospel Living App Now Available Worldwide
The Church’s new Gospel Living app for youth, is now available worldwide in 15 languages. The app provides content that inspires youth to set goals and has links and tools to help them in their gospel learning and daily living. Editor’s note (16 Feb 2020):...
Church Changes Twitter Handle to @Ch_JesusChrist
The username of the official Twitter account of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now @Ch_JesusChrist. This change better emphasizes the name of Jesus Christ, the focus of our worship. The adjustment also helps Twitter users mention the Church more...
How To Keep Kids Safe Online
Did you know: 70% of kids encounter sexual or violent content online while doing homework research 17% of tweens (age 8-12) received an online message with photos or words that made them feel uncomfortable, only 7% of parents were aware of this 65% of 8-14 year-olds...
New Year’s Resolution: Reset Your Passwords
In today’s world of online banking, online shopping, online social media, and online banking, chances are you have lots of online accounts. And chances are that you use the same username and password a lot. That’s a really bad practice. SplashData’s...
Gospel Library App: A Powerful Tool for Righteous Living
Have you taken some time to look at the Gospel Library app recently? What you’ll find might surprise you. It began as a way to keep the scriptures in your pocket and it has blossomed into a massive collection of tools and resources to strengthen every testimony and...
Church Newsroom Facebook and Instagram Accounts Merge with Main Church Pages
The social media accounts of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continue to unify to improve usage of the correct name of the Church and simplify the Church’s social media presence. The Church Newsroom Facebook and Instagram accounts have merged with the...
6 Places to Hasten the Work Online
Elder David A. Bednar has given us this challenge: “Brothers and sisters, what has been accomplished thus far in this dispensation communicating gospel messages through social media channels is a good beginning—but only a small trickle. I now extend to you the...
Church of England Social Media Guidelines
The Church of England is encouraging individuals and churches to sign a voluntary pledge to help make social media and the web more widely positive places for conversations. Whether you use Facebook or you are commenting on a news article, we all have different views,...
