JW Pressroom on Social Media

[Sjustice]

7 hours ago, Hope said:

What sort of algorithm do you have? I've been on socials since 2012 and I can't recall running into any apostate accounts. 

 

I'm only on Facebook and Instagram, not TikTok, but still..

Idk about the algorithms but I've only had problems on tiktok. I don't use it very much

[Tronora]

Today's social media is the equivalent to the town market in ancient times, where (among buying and selling stuff) rumours and latest news was exchanged.

 

I am not either on Instagram or TikTok. I really love the idea of jw_pressroom ❤️ 

 

How many followers do we have now?

[Dages]

41 minutes ago, Tronora said:

Today's social media is the equivalent to the town market in ancient times, where (among buying and selling stuff) rumours and latest news was exchanged.

 

I am not either on Instagram or TikTok. I really love the idea of jw_pressroom ❤️ 

 

How many followers do we have now?

884k for Instagram
154k for Tiktok

[Ostria]

I've seen people talking about how more JWs should be online to outweigh apostates or something. My tip, if someone isnt online, keep them off. The internet is getting worse and worse. Let them protect/keep their peace.

[Romain]

8 hours ago, Ostria said:

JWs should be online to outweigh apostates

That’s the exact trap we all should avoid falling into. The best thing is to stay away from them, not to fight against them or ”outweigh” them.

 

I am not on social media anymore since 3 years ago, and it was the best decision ever. And I am not going back haha.

[truce]

14 hours ago, Ostria said:

I've seen people talking about how more JWs should be online to outweigh apostates or something. My tip, if someone isnt online, keep them off. The internet is getting worse and worse. Let them protect/keep their peace.

 

Be careful - as it would be foolish to go on the Internet for the purpose of debating or fighting with apostates. 

Edited Sunday at 06:29 PM by trottigy

[Brandon]

Doesn’t it seem a little ironic that they announced the pilot would be exclusively in english, but now they posted at least 2 German language articles 🙊

[secondofseven]

On 6/27/2026 at 12:37 AM, Tronora said:

Today's social media is the equivalent to the town market in ancient times

 

The place of the town market was the public square (otherwise it would be more like a privately owned shopping mall).

 

Most of current social media is also privately owned. For more thinking about the consequences I can recommend:

 

- https://yalelawjournal.org/essay/beyond-the-public-square-imagining-digital-democracy (for a US centric explanation, relevant because of western BigSocial being US corporations)

 

- https://journalism.university/social-media-and-society/social-media-public-sphere-theory/ for a critique about the analogy

[Michał]

1 hour ago, Brandon said:

Doesn’t it seem a little ironic that they announced the pilot would be exclusively in english, but now they posted at least 2 German language articles 🙊

No, I don’t think so. 
 

1. Pilot is only in English because of it doesn’t work less resources were used. 
 

2. News outlets link quite often to sources in other languages if there are no official translation/statement in English. 

[bvr]

We are now over 900K on Instagram and almost 160K on TikTok. 

[truce]

9 hours ago, Romain said:

That’s the exact trap we all should avoid falling into. The best thing is to stay away from them, not to fight against them or ”outweigh” them.

 

I am not on social media anymore since 3 years ago, and it was the best decision ever. And I am not going back haha.

I see the wisdom in staying off social media if one can afford to. Myself, it was barely a week ago or so that I deactivated my X (Twitter account), and I am not on Tiktok, Facebook, Telegram or Instagram. A few days ago, I saw the whiteboard animation about social media come up on JW Library, and I could relate to the points discussed, as those were the very reasons for which I had earlier decided to stay off X (Twitter) and the likes. I ended up thanking Jehovah and the Slave in my heart, as it truly was food at the proper time for me. The only social media resources I have now are WhatsApp and JWTalk (if one can refer to those as social media), and I'm okay with those. So if one can afford to stay off, by all means!

[Brandon]

6 hours ago, truce said:

WhatsApp

Well… they’re bringing ads to that so I’d suggest switching to Telegram or Signal. But good on you for not having a Facebook or Instagram account. 

[secondofseven]

41 minutes ago, Brandon said:

bringing ads

And even if we didnt see ads ... your data itself is used to profile you to show ads somewhere else.

Harvesting personal data is part of WA for years.

Agree for recommendation about Signal. TG lacks e2e encryption in a lot of ways imho.

[Brandon]

6 hours ago, secondofseven said:

TG lacks e2e encryption in a lot of ways imho.

You’re not wrong. Telegram is a lot like Discord; calls are the only things that are e2ee by default. But it has a lot of social features but without ads (except in channels, but you can pay a small monthly fee for “premium” and all in-channel ads are gone)

 

of course Discord only allows like 10MB attachments for free users whereas Telegram allows up to 1500MB files for free! That’s why it’s an ideal tool for sending files; unlimited file storage!

Edited yesterday at 12:33 PM by Brandon

[Jim Jam]

On 6/28/2026 at 2:43 PM, Romain said:

That’s the exact trap we all should avoid falling into. The best thing is to stay away from them, not to fight against them or ”outweigh” them.

 

I disagree with this logic 

 

That's like saying that you won't preach in a town because there's one apostate that lives there.

 

If we are unwilling to be visible to others, then the apostates are going to preach their false gospel and that would be the only exposure the public will have about us

 

Paul said: 

"For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” However, how will they call on him if they have not put faith in him? How, in turn, will they put faith in him about whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach? How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent out?"

 

So I believe we should be meeting the people where they are, whether at their doors or on the internet

 

Please put yourselves in the shoes of the unbelievers: when they search up "JW" on a search engine, the vast majority of results they get are sources that are against us. So this shapes their view about our religion. We could easily outweigh these with more presence online so they can see the truth, see who we really are.

 

That is what I think

 

Edited 15 hours ago by Jim Jam

[Romain]

52 minutes ago, Jim Jam said:

 

I disagree with this logic 

 

That's like saying that you won't preach in a town because there's one apostate that lives there.

 

If we are unwilling to be visible to others, then the apostates are going to preach their false gospel and that would be the only exposure the public will have about us

 

Paul said: 

"For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” However, how will they call on him if they have not put faith in him? How, in turn, will they put faith in him about whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach? How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent out?"

 

So I believe we should be meeting the people where they are, whether at their doors or on the internet

 

Please put yourselves in the shoes of the unbelievers: when they search up "JW" on a search engine, the vast majority of results they get are sources that are against us. So this shapes their view about our religion. We could easily outweigh these with more presence online so they can see the truth, see who we really are.

 

That is what I think

 

Hi Jason, I like the way you think!

 

I personally don't believe that any 

amount of apostate content on the Internet (with JWs being present or not) would prevent Jehovah from spreading his Word and touching hearts.

 

But that was not the point of my message, right? I meant that we should not put ourselves at risk by going against apostate ourselves. I am sure Jehovah is using jw.org, jw_pressroom, and all our other official websites the best way possible to do just that.

[Jim Jam]

47 minutes ago, Romain said:

we should not put ourselves at risk by going against apostate ourselves

 

I agree with you, though that’s not what I was implying

Edited 13 hours ago by Jim Jam

[truce]

4 hours ago, Jim Jam said:

 

I disagree with this logic 

 

That's like saying that you won't preach in a town because there's one apostate that lives there.

 

If we are unwilling to be visible to others, then the apostates are going to preach their false gospel and that would be the only exposure the public will have about us

 

Paul said: 

"For “everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved.” However, how will they call on him if they have not put faith in him? How, in turn, will they put faith in him about whom they have not heard? How, in turn, will they hear without someone to preach? How, in turn, will they preach unless they have been sent out?"

 

So I believe we should be meeting the people where they are, whether at their doors or on the internet

 

Please put yourselves in the shoes of the unbelievers: when they search up "JW" on a search engine, the vast majority of results they get are sources that are against us. So this shapes their view about our religion. We could easily outweigh these with more presence online so they can see the truth, see who we really are.

 

That is what I think

 

What you think is not what the Faithful Slave directs, so I'll stick with the Slave on this one.

[chuck83]

Usually my public witnessing location has a routine honking political protest.  So being able to show our neutral stance, when asked has been good! As they're passing out their social media literature, I can tell the protesters about our pressroom account. The Nazi Germany post has been positive!

 

Also, an ex-believer is sometimes in the mix of the group and has told them things about us. We hear it and they say it. Do you know when she's not there, they ask about our "current" beliefs? So don't worry about ex-believers! Let the angels direct the right-hearted people. Jehovah knows who belongs to him, he knows where the gold is among the soot. 

[Ostria]

@Romain @Jim Jam Just responding to both of yall here since i was also part of the original topic. The original post/comment i was responding to was that JWs that aren't on social media should come on social media to outnumber the apopstates.

 

I responded with, no, let them have their peace.

 

Romain agreed with this sentiment

 

Jim Jam says that we shouldnt avoid the internet because there are apostates here. I agree with this, HOWEVER (And to follow up with what Romain responded with), there are already TONS of us on social media, and I have found out that the second someone finds out you're a JW it becomes a blood bath. You're attacked on all sides, and with the internet being a screen and there's no physical eye to eye with it, people will be more aggressive and more hurtful than they probably would be if you were just doing carts or going door to door. I have tried talking to other people on social media with mixed results (I actually have a friend in Nigeria that's been going to the meetings). However, we shouldn't be actively searching out apostates. We may not have the correct approach for some people (Similarly to the watchtower that we just did. Different approaches need to be used for different people, and we won't know what will reach someone's heart until we you know get to possibly know them a bit more. And in a group of five online apostates your regular approach may reach one of them, but the other four are still gonna be aggressive).

 

People are going to talk crap about us regardless, but people who arent already online shouldn't run online to find the naysayers.  However, if they want to go online to try to find an online JW community then that's cool too, but they should also realize that it's pretty brutal. Just because someone can't physically harass you doesn't mean there arent other ways to tear you down.

 

A little side note, when I do see discourse online and if i catch a JW in the wild (either by them announcing it, or if i have suspicions, i ask them if Matthew 5:3 means anything to them) i do try to help them out if they are getting outnumbered, or if anything make a new friend.

 

I hope this makes sense....

[Jim Jam]

8 hours ago, truce said:

What you think is not what the Faithful Slave directs, so I'll stick with the Slave on this one.

 

"Jesus gave us principles for the ministry that allow for variety. Some will do it one way; others might do it a little differently. That's OK." https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/VODPgmEvtAnnMtg/pub-jwb-134_14_VIDEO

Edited 1 hour ago by Jim Jam