Thursday, January 31, 2013

This is not social media!

Facebook, Twitter and the like - they are not social media sites. They are private podiums, for people to get on and shout their mind out loud, hurl abuses, express anger and then get off safely. Some people will clap, some will ignore, some wont even know you got onto the podium and some won't bother. 

What social media nonsense are you talking about? What is social about these sites?

We will like people's photos online and then when we meet them, we will not even realize who they are. What is this? huh? 
And marriages? What are people marrying these days? Their partner or their photographer? 
And what is this puppet like behavior we are all exhibiting?
One person is nodding their head for something, millions are following suit.
We don't have any individuality, huh?

Arrey, what is this? For everything we are shouting online.

Somebody will die, we will shout online.
Somebody will rape, we will shout online.
Somebody will not play cricket properly, we will shout online.
Somebody's movie is not getting released, we will shout online.
Somebody said something about my religion, we will shout online.
Somebody said something about my ethnicity, we will shout online. 

Why we are only shouting online? Oh, we can't go out and shout no? We will be put in jail. Anyway, we are so scared. Safely, we will shout here and go away. Correct? 

Then what social media you are talking about?
Breeding a generation of angry people, who will shout online and then go back to their work in office. 
Breeding a generation of people whose job is to indulge in 'BIG TALK, NO ACTION' , just like our old generation. They didn't have social media, we have. Otherwise there is no difference.
Breeding a generation of people, who will just not move their bums off their chairs. 

Arrey, did we vote properly?

Did we do anything for the nation? 
Did we enter college without paying capitation?
Did we join civil services?
Did we enter sports and play for our country? 

What we did? huh? 

What we did, you know? Logged into Facebook and twitter. All the time. 

That's all! 

4 comments:

Gowardhan said...

thats interesting we all have started living artificially, want to flaunt our attitude in public.

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pranav said...

Very nice post. It makes to introspect what we have done for our country or our society.

So glad to come across your blog, thanks to indiblogger.

me said...

Gowardhan - I agree. We all want to seem like even we have an opinion and that we are aware of what's happening around us. But what good is that, if we cannot do anything about an issue?
Thanks for stopping by! :)

me said...

Pranav - Thank you so much, Pranav :) I'm so glad you liked this post :)
Have a good day!