With the dawn of less expensive and convenient social interactive tools, I gushed out a sigh of relief anticipating developmental and robust discussion of credible or authentic issues on social pages like MXit, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. With Mxit relegated to the disposal of primary and high school kids, I thought Facebook was going to make meaningful inroads, but was I disappointed. Not that I am advocating for everything to be too serious and formal, but have fun interacting and addressing issues that are of concern to our society.
Issues that attract attention and receive comments are just petty, childish or immature postings. People raise thought provoking issues based on current affairs or issues that are negatively affecting our societal advancement, they hardly receive a comment, input or a negating view. But when somebody post: "I need a drink..." or just "I'm in need" people will be flocking to post their pervertish comments. As compared to other social/interactive networks that are there, Facebook has to be the most desolute and regressive one. I initially thought maybe is the people that I interact with, but no, even after expanding my horison and perusing other people's daily post, I was disappointed. There is just no meaningful and developmental discussions happening on FB. I was enticed to join one group there - Ghetto Spitters - anticipating posting of beautiful and inspirational poems there. OMG, people still think vulgar rhymes, how pathetic that is.
I embrace promote innovative ways of interacting, but can we pls RAISE and UP the level and not stagnate...
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