The digital divide tells us that many people around the world do not have access to technology's greatest brainchild (IMO), the Internet. Yet in this country the ones who have access to www waste it by displaying a sheer lack of common sense and logic in their tweets, updates or simple comments to write-ups or news. It doesn't take a lot to spot the nincompoops. I don't have an FB account but I heard it's a showcase of many things I don't want to be a witness of. On Twitter though, I have been very active for two years now.
1. Fantards- they spend the whole day and night forcing their equally nonsense hashtags to trend. For what reason? To stump a perceived competition or threat to their favorite loveteams. Fantards also troll into accounts they think are haters of their idols, retweet the latter when they perceive an anti-idol message in the tweets, invite fellow trolls and fantards into the latter's timeline. Some bother to comment but don't even bother to show up their real faces in their DPs.
2. Political "analysts" daw- These fencesitters always have something to say against the current administration. They believe the president has not done anything right since destiny (much to their chagrin) caused him to be the one to effect the arrest of the most prominent of thieves in the land. These "pol anals" (haha my term!) won't stop at overreading what PNoy says, they will call everyone who tries to express agreement with him as yellowtards. Many of these critics of PNoy have their own agenda against if not an axe to grind with the present leadership.
3. On IG, we have those who post irrelevant comments in celebrity accounts taking advantage of the following said accounts enjoy. It doesn't matter if the post is rather sad, these "paningits" will still sell anything they wish you to buy- using the celeb's timeline.
The internet is one of humankind's best creations and I am so happy I have experienced it during my lifetime. Yet the internet is so wasted on internet users themselves and many do not deserve the access that they have to it. I can only imagine how many great potentials are out there who should get the chance at this technology but don't.
As a teacher, I feel frustrated when students do not make full and effective use of the Internet. If I had this technology when I was just in my undergraduate, I would have graduated with honors because I could have studied harder and more efficiently with Google around. But no, many young Internet users don't even bother to check the veracity of forwarded messages and posts before they repost or retweet them. Result? Chaos, confusion, conflict and furthering of ignorance.
The fear that the Internet is wasted on many of its users escalate upon realizing that not a few are actually seated before their PCs or are holding in perpetuity their 4G gadgets but remain detached from real and useful info, knowledge and skills.
If I were the god of the Internet, I would punish those who waste the opportunity to dabble in my creation and take from them their access to give it to those more worthy of it, the other side of the digital divide.
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