Actually, far from it. I believe Facebook is one of the greatest tools for Evangelism the world has ever seen. If you live your faith it is obvious to others.
However, if you do not live it out you can do irreparable damage to your testimony. A lot of Christian's lives are the very excuses for others to reject Christ. "The church is full of hypocrites" is their popular mantra.
Let me just say that posting random Bible verses is only compelling to Christians. In fact Facebook does not put some of your friends in your news feed. The algorithms that control Facebook put the people with the most in common with you in your news feed.
The people that you want to see the verses you post probably won't anyway. So how does one go about reaching those without Christ online?
Try making a "Hit List" of 5 to 10 people that God has put in your life who do not know Christ. After you have your list make sure you click on it at least once a day. You will see the news feed of only those people.
Pray for your list and interact with the people on it. Like their pictures, comment on their status, but do not preach at them.
You will earn the right to speak into their lives by doing this. They will begin to look at your feed more as well. And perhaps most importantly, you will train yourself to periodically leave your Christian bubble.
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I personally recommend the cryptic method, whereby you post clues for the facebook non-Christians you are stalking for purely religious purposes to guess that Jesus is the savior.
For example,
"Can you guess the secret person, here are three clues
A. He was born under a star
B. He performed miracles
C. He thought he was God"
Unfortunately, people sometimes guess other people for these and claim that believing one is God is somehow insanity. But it usually works.
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