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I have been mum in my social medias accounts about any ongoing events, whether socio-political issues or just some controversies about famous people. I have been just silently observing some of these news that went viral through FB, IG or  Twitter. It is shocking to that some of these posts are just about common people doing regular things but in a wrong time, in a wrong place where there are people ready to capture and ready to post for public entertainment. Some are going really out of proportion.

Aside from not just interested to comment, I also do not have the bandwidth to be involved. I want to be rational as much as possible and I tried to be responsible as well in letting my opinion to be out in the open.


It was my initial intention to not engage but I just can't help but to notice how social media became so powerful that voicing out someone's opinion is becoming a trend that the once freedom of expression was literally abused and misused. Freedom of expression is a right of every individual citizens but apparently, not knowing how to use it responsibly can ensue to, but not limited to, violence.

All of a sudden, everyone becomes very opinionated and everyone suddenly becomes all self-righteous. These paved way to more bashing just to highlight on what is not within the standard, on what is uncommon or what is not "normal". But my question is, what are we trying to achieve here?

Observing the chaotic and barbaric exchange of commentaries online suddenly made me realize one thing. We make fun at the expense of others because it feels good when we know for a fact that other people are not really better than us. That there imperfections are real just like what we are. We are trying to belong to this not-so-perfect world. And it makes us feel better to know that we are not so alone after all.