Introducing Mr./Ms JKB (alias Mr./Ms LKB) from Social Media

Disclaimer

All the characters in the following article are genuine and may bear an uncanny resemblance with a few people you may know. The resemblance is intentional and hence no names are mentioned to ensure that they cannot do jack shit about anything.

Social media today has become such a relevant force and it is many things rolled into one. It is now a place where one can say what he or she wants to say , be somebody that he or she wants to be and also a place where one can be somebody that he or she wants to become in real life, but lack the balls. In a society of ever increasing population and a mix of races due to movement from one land to another for living and loving, the diversity in mindsets is so large and so mixed that the confusion comes together on social media.  If you are somebody who has lots of friends on a platform like facebook, ( I am going to stick to facebook for a while as I feel it is a platform that shows a lot of emotions and tells a lot of stories - some funny, some not so funny and some outrageous), a little bit of digging into posts and shares makes you laugh, cry, feel bad- but mostly laugh.

Today, I would like to introduce you to Mr./Ms JKB alias Mr./MS LKB ( please don't ask me what those acronym's stand for) - a set of people who work for free on facebook for community service - aka- the sharers. These are the people who share posts randomly at any time of the day on diverse topics that are sometimes unrelated or linked together by the JKB glue with little care and thought. I have such people on my friends list - a decent number of people I know personally and quite a few who I do not.  I had a conversation with one of them on chat and this is how it went by.

Me       - Hey dude - nice share

JKB     - Which one bro and when ?

Me       - The one on MOM you shared day before.

JKB     - Na dude, I don't recall sharing anything about my mom.

Me       - Not your mom dude, MOM - Mars Orbiter Mission.

JKB     - Oh yeah bro, I remember. NASA does some amazing work.

Me       - As***e , Mangalyan is by ISRO

JKB     - Of course Mangalyan is by ISRO, I was talking about MOM dude.

Me       - They are both the same you Ch**t.

JKB     - They are ?

Me       - Yeah.

JKB     - OK. Had no idea bro.

Me       - But glad you shared, 73 M USD is a great achievement.

JKB     - They spent that much ?

Me       - It is the most cost effective Mars mission ever dude. Did you not read the entire article ?

JKB     - Na bro - I dont read all the stuff I share. Must have read the headline when somebody else                           shared and shared it myself.

Me       - Oh cool. (WTF in the mind)

This was the funny part. Now imagine an article that promotes things not so good - for example hate speeches, regional conflicts etc. People just don't read the articles completely and then decide whether it is worth sharing or not. I know a chunk of them who read a few lines that are very neutral and then share without realizing that the essence of the article lies somewhere in the middle sandwiched between layers of democracy and so called freedom of speech.

It is time to wake up and realize that there are young minds on social media that need to be nurtured and put in the right direction and not mislead into being pseudo characters trying to imitate what others say without realizing what they are sharing.

Surprising, I have also noticed that about 80% of these JKB's hardly ever write anything on their own. They JUST SHARE. Their timelines are filled with these shared posts. I feel they have no opinion of their own and find it easy to share something they relate with remotely without reading the entire contents. It is a pretty dangerous game being played out there - specially with the young minds.

Given the fact that a big chunk of the nation's future is on social media these days, and pretty active, it's better to spread a few smiles and positive energy, than push them into a mental abyss that is saturated with perverted obsession of the dangerous kind.

What do you think ?