Indonesian Facebook in Crisis- but no flirting!

One of the major muslim population country now comes under the Technology gossip, Muslim clerics debating the exploding popularity of Facebook in Indonesia said Friday that followers could use the networking site to connect with friends or for work but not to gossip or flirt.

Above 700 clerics, or imams, agreed to draft up guidelines on surfing the Web after receiving complaints about Facebook and other sites, including concerns they encourage illigal sex, said Nabil Haroen, a spokesman for the organizers.

They decided "Facebook is forbidden if it is used for gossiping and spreading lies," he said, and that users also could not ask overtly intimate questions or in anyway encourage "vulgar behavior."

But the clerics noted, too, there were many upsides to Facebook and other trendy, new forms of communication, from mobile phone text messaging to video conferencing.

The head of an influential Muslim religious council says he favors a ban on Facebook because of possible sexual content. He says it can drive people to "distasteful pornographic chatting."

The same council recently issued rulings against smoking and yoga.

Most devout Muslims adhere to the council's rulings because ignoring a fatwa, or religious decree, is considered a sin.

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