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Hi all,

On this auspicious day, let me thank first my parents, teachers and friends who have taught me a lot and helped me become the person who I am today.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. -- Confucius

Like almost everything in the universe which is immortal, only if Knowledge is shared you become immortal.

Today being Saraswati Pooja, which stands a day to worship the Goddess of learning I write this post with respect to what we (including myself) do and share my ideas.

I write this post in context to what is happening of late in our social media channels and our media.

Last week there were two elections which were happening one being Tamil Nadu Nadigar Sangam Election other one being Bihar Elections, the importance given by the local media in the order mentioned.

With the pre-polls campaigning and post-polls analysis media is completely into the Nadigar Sangam Elections and nobody honestly cared about the Bihar Polls anyways.

I am in no position to say who was right in the 2 camps which were part in the elections in TN. But one thing is for sure, now that one camp has won and the local media is still running analysis shows on this election, we can give a recommendation to either of the camps to say something about the recent India SouthAfrica Series, protests in Gujarat, crowd issues in Cuttack, or even the election in Bihar.
You may wonder what is the connection between these to the Nadigar Sangam anyways, my point here is that whatever they spoke during the canvassing time or after the elections now also is not connected to Nadigar Sangam.

The advantage here will be that people will atleast come to know about these from these shows and atleast using this a camp can claim that they were transparent and they are in line with the latest trends, during the next campaigning if at all the society still holds and if at all an election happens.

On a deeper thought, it is not the media which is to be blamed it is we ourselves. It was a minor election where the total members were only around 3000.

But it is due to Social Networks that the election among 3000 people was taken to crores of people across the state and outside the state.

Social Media has almost become a necessity and it has grown to an extent that there is no life outside it.
It was a local association election, and the purpose of why the society was formed was a debated topic during the election. If the members of the society themselves were not clear on the purpose of the society, what good or bad it can do to the general public.

There are lot of things which can happen via Social Media, you can make a person immortal and you can as well make an alive person consider death, that’s the power of social media now. (Local people may consider Lingusaamy of Anjaan Fame as a living proof to this statement)

On this day, may be we should consider ourselves lucky enough to read and write and we can and should use the media in any number of useful ways rather than spreading false news and cause problems in the society or to a section of society. We rise by lifting others and not instigating others.

Honestly, yesterday there were enough number of posts written for Sehwag’s retirement while originally he had not announced his retirement. And may be seeing that his retirement was trending topic in the social networking space, he could have decided to retire keeping in line with ‘You die as a hero when you are trending or live long enough to see yourself become a villain with just the trolls speaking about you’.

Same is the case with any person associated with the masses, be it a politician, sports person or a film star. There are lots of fan pages and lots of hate pages or what we call as Troll pages in the social network now for them. Any action of them is closely followed and loved in the fan pages and trolled to the level one cannot imagine in the hate pages.
By comparing those two sides, you can make out one thing for sure, that both of them are jobless and by looking at it we become jobless, and the only fruitful thing which has resulted for me by following those is this post which you are readingJ.

Soon a day will come that a resume of a marketing candidate may include a line saying administrator of a fan page or a troll page with the number of followers, and the candidate may be rated on based on the number of posts or memes posted.

Pages in social media was probably introduced to drive a business or spread some news and one should know to use it that way for the sake of good and not to spread hatred among people.
It is we who are fortunate enough to read write and think, spread hatred among ourselves by sharing these in our profiles and motivating the administrators of these pages to create more and more posts and instigating the people who do not believe in what you shared/posted.

Terrible people exist all over the world. It's a sad fact of life. And unfortunately, the Internet has given those people the ability to spread hate and malice with almost no real-world repercussions. Some people feel like they can say whatever they want to whomever they want on the Internet because they don't have to deal with the immediate consequences of mistreating another person.

Thankfully, this goes both ways. Online, it's easier than ever to ignore someone's hateful remarks and walk away. Unlike reality, where we may be forced to interact with people we don't like, you can ban trolls from your social media accounts and never think about them again. If you find yourself the target of unnecessary vitriol on social media, remember this easy advice: don't feed the trolls, what goes around will definitely come around.

Honestly tweeting about any election that you vote for so and so party is not a good decision, same way tweeting or posting about a politician or star that you follow them or admire them is not going to change anything.
There should be some rationale behind making our voting in a secret ballot system, let us respect it and leave it at that level. Do not voice around things which are personal to you and let us with our knowledge gain the wisdom of understanding what can be posted in social network and what not!


Bye till next,