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		Closing Paltalk Rooms It seems God is giving all 
							indications that we have to move on from using 
							
							Paltalk.  Social networking is 
							becoming more useful and a better outlet for Mission
							outreach.  So we are shifting our focus from using 
							Paltalk to spread the Word, to social networking and 
							social media (which includes social networking, as 
							well as sites such as YouTube, FourSquare, etc.).  We encourage everyone to also shift 
						their focus to social media, participate in all available 
						social 
						networking outlets, and help each other to become 
						proficient 
						in using them.  
						Tahirah will be the central point 
						(leader) in this regard, and you can coordinate with her to 
						make this work for everyone so we can use this 
						wonderful outlet the most efficiently for God's Work. We can see that God may also 
						be pushing us in this direction because the Paltalk service 
						seems to be going downhill.  
						Their user population seems to be declining, their ads 
						are becoming worse and more intrusive, their servers are 
						often down, their customer service is almost 
						nonexistent, etc.  Therefore, we feel the time and 
						energy we are putting into keeping up 4 rooms is being 
						wasted, and would give more fruit if it was spent on 
						social media.  We 
						decided that we still need one room to broadcast 
						services and live events, but the others are not worth 
						keeping.   Therefore, we have 
							decided to close 3 out of the 4 rooms we currently 
							have running 24/7.  Only our main room, "All 
						Religions Unified...", will remain open.  We will 
						also move all activities and recordings to this room.  
						Therefore, instead of having a room playing only 
						meditation classes, a room playing only chants, etc., we 
						will have one room playing a random selection of 
						readings, Satsangs (Discourses) by Maitreya, meditation classes, 
							chants, etc.  All live events, such as 
							services, meditation classes, etc., will be held in 
							this room as well.   As a side effect of this move, we 
						are also removing all low-quality recordings from the 
						playback list.  The recordings played in the new 
						room will all be high quality, clear, and easily 
						understood and listened to.   The closing of the rooms and all 
						other necessary changes will happen on October 
						15.   For full details on what will be 
						broadcast in the new room, please check our 						
						conference room page and
						
						activities page after the move.  
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