Controversies and Social Media

Well, where do I even start? I made the biggest mistake so far in my life with internet. That had tortured my mind till late hours yesterday night. I struggled to rectify it but apparently I could only not repeat the same. There is no silver lining whatsoever, or a learning to take out of it as well. Only a victim, my mental peace. I tried to understand a controversy. You know reading about it, views from everyone else “relevant” and pondering over my own understanding of the situation. Thank god I did not analyse minute details or try to give a meaning to my society based on the same. I promised myself this would be the last time I am ever getting into the internet controversies. It was more than my little mind could take. It is the biggest of the film industry, well actually just top of the mind right now for Indian Bollywood followers.

What’s perplexing me is that why would everyone want to react about it? Have a view of the same? I could see that I was not alone in following up the controversy. People are so brave out there to say anything, actors to activists, critics to journalists, home makers to corporate leaders, students to senior citizens. Use of appropriate language is not a concern at all in many of the cases, no one, whatever may be their profession, no one had to act (tweet/post/blog/video) responsibly, everyone feels that they have all the facts to give a conclusion, taking side was the goal and the ultimate aim discrediting the opposite side (sides which you do not know at all), picking on every little angle (seriously age, slight change in timelines, facial expressions as proofs?), never asking the right questions and the ultimate discussion of moral grounds. Wow! Even for a person like me who has an opinion on anything to everything, I find this repulsive. Who’s with me in saying your comments out loud in a crowd equivalent to the audience you got on social media?

How does everyone finding time to think about stuff that doesn’t matter? It seems like an escape from actual problems in life, we would not want to think about. Well for people seem to want to influence through social media, is there any reason to believe people’s belief systems are molded by what goes on the Facebook wall or twitter feed? I found people looking for reinforcement of what they actually believe already. Isn't that how Facebook algorithm works? And what’s your level of seriousness, when you have actually found substantial time to spend on a place where anyone can say anything.

As far as the controversy goes, all I have to say for the lady, “Sach ke aas paas wala jhoot pakadna mushkil hai” and for the gentleman, “Why? Why? Why?” for all that has been done and said. But yes, another minute of my life, not wasting on this