“More importantly, it creates a false sense of self-importance, where every insignificant move I make is of international importance. Soon I become the focus, the one on display. The message is: I am so important. My life is so important. Every move I make is so important. The result becomes an even stronger me-focused world, where I am at the cente”

That’s only if you’re presumptuous and self centered enough to assume that people are interested in hearing about what you had for breakfast and how you helped your son with his math homework that day. If you are smart enough to realize that that kind of status update looks pathetic, you will use your status space to share funny or interesting things.
That is to say, if you have a life, yours won’t become about Facebook.

There are plenty of ways that having a FB account can be dangerous to your iman, but I draw the line at Facebook being an inherent challenge to God’s power. Like, I can understand how FB could be a distraction from worship, but I can’t see this ego thing youre talking about.

We have just as much of this ‘ego’ in real life with our relationships with other people, that’s sure as heck not going to stop ppl from being social, it just means theyll need to keep it in check.

3 types of nafs.

1. Nafse Ammara- When you have given yourself to your desires. You are happy in this state because you do not even feel bad about your sins. Your happiness is out of ignorance. You may miss your fariadh and wajabat and still you sleep contently at night without feeling sorrow.

2. Nafse Lawama- This is when you are aware of your sins. You know about the sins you commit and are regretful about them. You are unhappy and sorrowful in this state.

3. Nafse-Mutmainna- This nafse has given itself to the commands of Allah(SWT). He described it as real genuine bliss. You are content in this state.

Then he told us a 3 step process from one to the other.

1. Be staunch on the faraidh and wajabat.

2. Staunch on the sunnah, increase zikr, and nafl ibadah.

3. Allah (SWT) brings us to Him, because we made ourselves a certain way that we attracted the love and mercy of Allah(SWT ).

http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/?Sura=12&FromVerse=53&ToVerse=53&Script=Usmani&Reciter=Mishari-Rashid&Translation=Urdu-Ahmed%20Ali&TajweedRules=Off&Zoom=5

My first email account was opened with Yahoo! in 1998 i.e. 13 years back, and i still have it Alhamdulillah.

Since the inception of Facebook, i’ve not felt it comfortable for some reason, so i’ve never used it.

I’m an American, i’m a Muslim, and i’m still connected with my friends (through email). I’m not sure why i would really need a FB account.

That said, if one feels he/she is v strong with his/her ‘nafs control’ then i guess he can use FB for good, but i’d say keep away from it if you fear you’re weak (which in most cases, i think we are).

Wallahu a’lam.

Jazak Allah Khair