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Introduction
When darkness envelops the earth, keen eyes see the real
colors of true men. If you do not want to see savage justice of men in the 21st
century, do not take delight in having a daily dose of videos and pictures
posted on the Facebook. This equally applies to YouTube, Instagam, Wiki, LinkedIn,
Twitter and you can fill in the gaps.
Reviews
Apparently there are no rules, bylaws, laws, etiquette or
guiding principles to be followed in some of the media enumerated above. You
just enter; do your things whether orderly or higgledy-piggledy and get out. When
you complain of the vulgarity or selfishness or what you see and hear, you are
told to pack your bag and baggage and get out of there. You may get out or stay at your own risk. I
stoically chose to stay after being initiated into it by the mother of my
goddaughter in BG. If I were being roasted on spits it was all my level-headed
choice. You are asked to post what you have, say what you think and feel no
matter how ridiculous, constructive or damaging it is to yourself, other
peoples, now or in the future. It is a dungeon of canker warms where you do not
care a damn. That is freedom of speech and the sort of journalese that we are
to see from now henceforth as today everyone is a reporter, trained or
dilettante. When you turn it on you have
emerging from all corners of the world all toms, dicks, and harries wanting to
be your friend. Thus it is a good phishing and pharming ground for the CIA , NSA, All the spying and mushrooming marketing
agencies in the world. The gallimaufry of overwhelming mega data traffic is a
good sign for the founders or owners as they have audiences or clienteles that
cost them next to nothing for their adverts and other sinister projects. It is
better than the dynamic CNN that throws away seasoned readers every week, the
conservative FOX TV, Al Jazeera
English where the Arabs want to revamp the grandeur that was Arabism, World
Press from the next nuclear super power Iran that specializes in bashing
Westerners, BBC that is losing its initial uncensored trajectory and many more
that may and do ask for an arm and leg to put your advertisement in the market.
The danger of lack of filter is that adults and toddlers do mingle and you
cannot differentiate adults from children. The insinuating question is how dare
you minors enroll with adult clubs? Nothing is done about it and will not be
done until it spirals out of all proportion, until the society has deteriorated
beyond Sodom and Gomorrah where men and infants exchange pictures, drawings and videos of private
parts, harmful sciences and paragons burnt and basked in public bonfires.
Fishing for Friends and Foes
The moment you are in, you got out to capture many friends
as you want to have. As you are looking for friends, others are looking for
you. The more friends you have the better for you feel fulfilled and you are
happy. Happiness here is contagious. Nonetheless,
for lack of feeding facts, you venture into a no-man’s land where under normal
circumstances you would not dare to forage for information whose sources and
raison d’être
cannot be checked. You will not mind being with glitzes or budding geniuses
from India, Sri Lanka, Nigeria and occasionally mute East Europeans. Other
forumites are happier when you are joining them with a galaxy of your friends,
foes and your booties; call it new avenues or knowledge. They will benefit as
they will have a wider fishing arena at no cost to advertise or do whatever
they wish. There are others who represent corporations or conglomerate who
masquerade as representing themselves yet they are all out to sound the inclinations
of the customers so as to know precisely what to put in their itinerary basket
of trade. They come to you on the chumming up day as your friends but that will
be all you ever hear from them after the day of grace. There is no honeymoon
period. They go straight into business. They want to woo you to gamble, and for
men, they want to get them to gentlemen’s clubs where they can change ladies.
This is not for free. It is business that must be sustainable. So, expect a fee
in due course of time. With others, you will be with them for a year and they
will never ever send you words of greetings even on your birthday that is
glaringly put there for all to see. I have a phrase that best describe them,
phishers, pharmers and masquerading enemies of friendship.
When you adamantly accept their friendship proposal, expect
to have glaring cultural clashes if you do not want to be uncouth as some of
them. I see very lonely people in crowds and very happy people mingling with welcoming
crowds and getting into harm’s way. I
see confused people, enlightened ones suppressing their inner selves, I see
gods, winged angels, and masquerading devils wearing green cloaks of amity
using dynamites to force-enter peaceful homes in our hearts. Some of their motifs are to destroy what we
have built to right our wrongs and give us a modicum of heaven on earth we have
been taught by Our Father to pray for since time immemorial. Yet we can only
look on as their ways generate for us tons of money to keep some of us up with
our kingly and queenly ways of life. Often,
the wages we have for our joining this forum is the fact that there are no
principles or guiding rules to be followed.
Darkness of the
Daylight
Is that the true manifestation of freedom we talk about in
the free world? It is not all that negativity. As you will observe that we are
operating in darkness and when it is
dark, a keen eye can see the real colors of men. In consequence, the
Facebook, YouTube, Instagam, and others space does not allow us to outline here
are mirrors of our decadence in our societies. So we have to thank that global
classroom media that help us to know who we are. We are by nature weak and evil
peoples.
It will not be long before you are discussing houses, cars,
motor bicycles you guys call now motorbikes, gorgeous blue lagoons in Greece
and other serpentine scenic environs whose names the authors or posters do not
even know and do not bother to know and will not know. Do not be over enthusiastic
and curious as from the blue lagoons will emerge gorgeous and loving peoples,
mermaids and mermen... Their bodies have no blemishes and plastic surgeons will
go bankrupt in their field if we keep on producing elements like those. It is because their pictures are burnished,
polished and packaged in golden perfumed bags. Very soon the honeymoon period
is over. Gradually it is tense to open the gift embalmed with golden coated
papers. The revelations are dazzling or Pandora boxes. If they do not suffocate you, they blind you.
There is no win-win. Your McPhee, or whatever filtering devices you have
installed to filter your messages and protect you will be unable to halt the
phishing and pharming that is targeting you.
It all turns out to be like the new gadget buglers use now to enter all electronic
cars. No car is safe and no member is safe. The replies or comments you send
are sometimes wrongly interpreted. You are better off ignoring some comments or
just click on the ‘like’ if at all you have time to kill. Why? It is because you have suddenly become a
square peg in a round hole. You may be in the wrong domain or you are a baby
boomer hiding in children’s night club. If you still want to continue receiving
junks, or tired, simply defriend, edit your list of so-called friends, morn
over your spilling milk and stay. I passed through these to glean what I am
sharing with you that may annoy or bemused you over my idiocy.
A lady once posted a picture of herself topless to comment.
I commented that it had made me kinky and randy. To her, it was an awful
reaction. Remember that Americans have
the eponymous “Randy” and in British, Canadian, Australian and Zimbabwean English
that I know randy means eager to have sexual gratification, suffering from
satyriasis, yearning to lay someone like a frustrated peacock after a peahen. She was agitated and in wrath replied that
such a reply was in bad taste as it was to infuriate members of her family that
occasionally read her funny messages. It was a clear example of cultural clash.
To me she was sensitive and I knew that it was to take me ages to try to convince
her that I did not mean to annoy her. The next best thing that I could do was
to defriend her. I did it and regretted it later. There I was missing a friend
whose friendship I could only now conjecture where it could have led us to.
There I was alienating myself from someone who was calling me a friend. With
hindsight, she was not a friend but a pen –pal as baby boomers call such in the
good old days. The question that I would ask is what would have happened if I
had opened my heart to be allowed to bleed. It might have bled to death. My
action was inadvertent or out of naivety. It had annoyed my friend; let us
safely call her my pure acquaintance.
When many submit request to you for friendship or acquaintances,
they look innocent. It will not be long before they are asking for favours. A
lady in the States told me that she had just returned from a business trip in
Lagos Nigeria. . When we next chatted she pulled a snake from the palm front. [This
is an African expression where something unexpected suddenly sprung up]. It
might be a jack in the pot. She told me that she was broke and needed some
financial assistance from me. My head rose to Africa where one of the deputy ministers
we were supposed to help his country turned round and asked me to lend him some
money. I did not need to be told that these persons were telling me to get out
of their ways. The lady requested $2000 US and I beamed and asked myself if I
were already a banker. I belayed the
talk and did not defriend her but never chatted with her if she were online.
Her story was fantastic and even Bill Gate would not have bought it. Gradually,
I was learning the action of men when suddenly enveloped by darkness in a rich
departmental store. Those of you from New York will recall when there was
blackout. Managers turned round to steal. The baker and the baker’s wife stole.
All saints with halos over their heads turned to be devils on that day. They
stole what they euphemistically call bonanza.
New shorthand worse
than Pittman’s
The parlance that is used is not even found in Mars or
Pluto. It is extraordinary. It does not reflect the people’s profiles or the
level of their erudition. The English
written is worse than what some Naijans, my Oliverians that is Nigerians,
Indians and Sri Lankans speak or write in their forums and I often wondered if
they were truly British Colonies. I mean
that it is worse than what one reads in the works of Jonathan Swift, Chaucer
and William Shakespeare when they were gallanting this dusty earth and written
English was not standardized or lacked accepted Grammatik. This was what
Chaucer wrote when the Arabs and Turkish Muslims had barred Christians from
going on pilgrimages to the Holy Land and the Christians in England had to be
going to the Canterbury Cathedral instead:
Thanne longen fok to goon on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seeken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond to Canterbury they wende
At least we can discern what our good old Chaucer was saying
if you articulate the words. Often we have to ask our interlocutors in the
forum what the heck they meant. You need patience of an angler to communicate
with some of your frinzd [this is how
they write it].
At some stage I became like Don Quixote and told myself that
I was going to don in battle regalia and have a go at them. Here I was debased
to think of the unthinkable. There are no standardized spellings, grammar,
quotation marks, and so on. Forumites wrote as they felt and their vernaculars
can be clearly seen in their spellings. Jonathan Swift’s way of writing in the Tale of Tub where he lampoons the
papists, that is the Catholics who were against their king for luxuriating with
his concubines were even better. I comprehended what he was saying than some of
the tommy rots that are being spread on the WWW on the assumption of anonymity.
Some forumites were philandering masquerades and did not know that anything
once put on the WWW remains there forever and is read by at least a million
persons. I understood all but my eyes are not dazzled
by the spelling and grammar. I am instead stupefied. When Swift discussed Socrates, Pythagoras,
Aesop and others the messages were clear as this false page. There was no
standardization but all attempts were made to imitate the convention of the
time.
The parlance of
rebels
The Facebook written language, if at all there is something
like that, to me is that of rebellious neophytes who do not want to have
anything to do with convention. It takes us back to the beginning where I
stated that it was all wishy-washy. One is tempted to say that it is a
deliberate attempt to flush the Queen’s language into the toilet. I was tempted
to ponder that it was a new call for a new way of writing to be found. Do we
need to use conjunctions to string our words? Do we need the Roman script to
write English? A Saudi Arab classmate copied his English class notes in Arabic
scripts. I was simply amazed beyond words when he read it back to me in
impeccable English. I beam and said to myself that English could have been
using Arabic script. If English speakers were using the Roman scripts and Arabic
numerals why could they not use Arabic script provided it portrayed the message
succinctly and without falsification we are talking about. See how awful it is
when the French force it to their Languedoc.
Let me be puerile. Varieties of French written in the Roman alphabet is full of
clumsy hats and caps some modern users do not bother to wear or insert them. Having said this, there should be no room for
laziness in language learning and writing if not it could become an archival
language only or torpedoed and sunk as other dialects that have died or are
fast dying. With this trend of thought,
linguists ought to ascertain that learners do not give back to them ersatz
stuff, written or spoken.
Makeup over
penmanship
The founders of Facebook have put the value of looks over
that of penmanship. In Jonathan Swift I could recognize panicky, prettie, prathee and many more but the penmanship of
Facebook forumites is just sloppy and awful. Do not tell me that it is more of Pittman’s
Shorthand? Briefly, it is an unfiltered comedy of concoction. The English language that is
fast becoming globalized is being butchered and I am afraid that the guardians of
that language in Oxford or Cambridge will not want to shake hands with some of
the Facebook patrons. My observation is that English is being prostituted by nonchalant
speakers and learners. It should not be the case. When you want to learn a
language, you have to do so with all your might and master all its knocks and
crannies. Sit over it when you graduate and never let it sit on you. I recall the early days of the
Skype that faltered when it was about to blossom when one communicated so well.
Some of the users boasted of exhibiting our prowess in typing speed without
errors. We bragged of chatting up with a dozen users simultaneously because of
our touch-typing skills. 'Facebookers’
owing to their lack of skill invented their spellings; let us call them shorthand
that could make lexicographers, phoneticians or specialists in Esperanto run
helter-skelter. Others could jump from the River Avon suspension bridge rather
than see what is budding. The following are some of what they write and I will
leave them to you to decipher their meaning. Cu, u, Ru, Ur, gn9th, b4, ya, kk, ya, h r de girlz, boyz, grts 2 all, fer,
der, ba, gud, and so on and so fifth.
Facebook as a great
man’s homestead
Let me be honest with you. The Facebook is a great man’s
house. When you play any tone in such a man’s homestead, there is ever someone
to dance to it. It is so because is it peopled by many a man with contrasted
characteristics, idiosyncrasies. It is for this reason that you do not judge
them by their color but by their content. That is why I have CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera,
National Geographic, and many more striving to have a footing in it. Therefore
you have a club where the rustics rub shoulders with the gentry. You will see a
gorgeous lady who claims that she is promoting information technology (IT) at some University in America
but in fact she is an international slattern. She posts different pictures in
which she is semi naked asking men to approve of her beauty. There is never shortage
of men who would mark “like” several times over and over. One asked oneself how
beneficial such rating exercises were to her pictorial prostitution. Post an article that some of you may consider
as gutter press caliber and no one will make any comment about it. Is the reason that they are unable to read or
they do not want to enter into any confrontation or academic gymnastics? We can
insinuate more from their silence.
Burlesques in vogue
Nevertheless, there is something that you cannot seal your month
from verbalizing, when you see uncensored macabre pictures or videos. How can
you afford to be apathetic when an elderly couple is videoed being set on fire
and being whipped by a crowd that looks like East Africans? They are eventually
burnt alive by the crowd with leaves of eucalyptus. The pains, the anguish, the
hardheartedness of the burners, the fact that there are children in the crowd
reveal to us the dark interior world we are living in and where we are heading
to if there is no restraint. Today, I am seeing another macabre picture of a
lady burnt by her husband at several places by a hut iron. This is downright
violent against women that the male dominated world stood and watches each day
in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, The Sudan,
Russia, Mexico and the rest and nothing is done. Do men really think? Do they
all know that they are women’s children?
If you think that
what I have described is frightening, you are mistaken. We have seen fetuses dumped somewhere in India. I could not comprehend and I asked the person who
posted the pictures and the author shied to tell me. One person in the audience
told me that they were found in the dump yard in India. No name was given. I know that with modern cameras with built-in global positioning system (GPS), and the fact that dates are inscribed digitally in them, we could track down the photographer, the time and date where it was taken. Thanks to this technology. Then we do not have time to go through this exercise. Subscribers will do us a favor of simplifying location and dates for all of us if at all they want to make a contribution in our information broadcast.
Today, I saw another that made me dumbfounded. A naked man in some South East Asian country being excoriated stoned with bricks on the highway in what looked like India. From the ferocity of the attackers he was to breathe his last. I held my head in my hands and asked what wrong that man committed that the police would not come to rescue him from the jaws of hell fire of what looks like school children whose hearts had been poisoned by their instructors and nonchalant adults. What I am painting here is just the tip of the iceberg. You are going to see pogroms with your naked eyes as you see happy weddings. Now I want to ask if Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (U.N.O.) does his work properly. I also want to add if there are NGOs interested in human rights extant in this world.
It should be made loud and clear that any member of the U.N.O. whose citizens are being mistreated, be they the Boko Haram followers arrested or hoodlums in Nigeria they had to be judged and sentenced and not allowed to be sentenced in the public by the mob that take the laws in their hands. If such were to happen as in Cameroon where the men in uniform sometimes stand and watch culprits dishing out jungle judgments they could be expelled from the U.N.O., club of civilized men. Economic or some sort of sanctions should be imposed on such barbaric countries with appalling human rights records.
Today, I saw another that made me dumbfounded. A naked man in some South East Asian country being excoriated stoned with bricks on the highway in what looked like India. From the ferocity of the attackers he was to breathe his last. I held my head in my hands and asked what wrong that man committed that the police would not come to rescue him from the jaws of hell fire of what looks like school children whose hearts had been poisoned by their instructors and nonchalant adults. What I am painting here is just the tip of the iceberg. You are going to see pogroms with your naked eyes as you see happy weddings. Now I want to ask if Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations Organization (U.N.O.) does his work properly. I also want to add if there are NGOs interested in human rights extant in this world.
It should be made loud and clear that any member of the U.N.O. whose citizens are being mistreated, be they the Boko Haram followers arrested or hoodlums in Nigeria they had to be judged and sentenced and not allowed to be sentenced in the public by the mob that take the laws in their hands. If such were to happen as in Cameroon where the men in uniform sometimes stand and watch culprits dishing out jungle judgments they could be expelled from the U.N.O., club of civilized men. Economic or some sort of sanctions should be imposed on such barbaric countries with appalling human rights records.
Exhume not the ugly
past
If you think that was all, you are still mistaken. Women
pose in their birth day attire or post picture of men having dalliance with
them. Now there is a question for all of us. As believers, unbelievers, law
abiding citizens, God fearers, and others of other beliefs, you are not allowed
to show explicit documents, forbidden pictures to children. The Facebook, and
similar forums are looking for money with blood, sweat, and tears without
remorse as they know that the burlesque
the accepted subject matter, the more
patrons they woo and that is “successful” business. As there are no
restrictions, what are supposed to be in the matrimonial bedrooms is exposed by
exhibitionists in the global arena. What
are we teaching those children? Is that what our elders taught us? Or are you
going to tell us that the elders or grandees are of the past world? Whoever
told you that our world was different from theirs? We are a continuum and should strive every day to do all we can to be
morally better than what we were in the past. I call those exhibitionists
international prostitutes. Correct me if my definition is awry. Of what good is
a Russian strumpet’s nude picture in the house of an American? Randy men may
approve but the chances of such a woman being with a sexually frustrated
American are one to a million. Also, once a sex worker, the tendency to revert
this previous profession after marriage is high. You do not want to get
yourself involved with such if you want to have a peaceful life in the future. Following up is worthless speculation.
I have earlier stated that if you want to hide anything on
earth for some person put it in writing. I tell you that nude pictures and
videos of men and animals attract more audiences than treatises. Is this
signally the death of writing as known since time immemorial? We are seeing the
next generations surrounded by electronic gadgets that solve all their
problems. They no longer read now or translate as Bing does it for them.
Students cheat now by writing essays in their vernaculars and the computer
translate for them and they pass on to their instructors as having done their
homework. Let us leave that for another topic. So the founders of Facebook must pat
themselves on the back as having done their psychological homework before
launching it and they will go a long way before it is competed away by Linkln and others. I am not saying that everyone should read and write. Reading and
writing is not for all and sundry as university education. After all, a good
number of geniuses, inventors and others with notoriety as Master Edward Snowdon who is presently hiding in an executive airport lounge at Moscow turn out to be
college dropouts. Nevertheless a modicum of seasoned academics could clean the
world of some of the misunderstanding and the filthiness that we see on the WWW.
Pictorial versus
written media
I was inclined to say that the level of education had
something to do. By merely looking at a picture, you cannot decipher the black
boxes of what make the engines or computers tick. You got to go inside and see
the nitty-gritty of all their composition and their working. That makes the
difference between one who wants to advance and one who is careerist. If you
want to experiment, post or share my write-up this afternoon and you will have not up to
five persons browse it. But post a picture of German shepherds mating as on
Youtube and you will have half a million viewer in less than one week. Ask what
viewers have benefited from such burlesque? Ask me what you have benefited from reading up to this juncture. Similarly, what do slatterns get from posting
their pictures nude or semi-nude and asking men to approve them? The men who
comment are generally married and I do not think they would want to open their
doors to strumpets. By making this statement, I am not claiming that whores are
not normal persons like you my cherished readers but it is their dangerous work
that is problematic. We may equate them here to smokers of tobacco who know the
danger from cancer yet continue and puff and puff smoke asking us to give them
marks for smoking so well. Or gluttons who eat like epicureans yet continue to
do so in spite of warning from the surgeon general. Whatever, God asks us to love them as Mary
Magdalene in the scripture but do we do
wrong things as our way of soliciting sympathy from onlookers? Then we are
simply moronic. We have a choice.
Not all are casual or
fair weather friends
Also, do not dismiss all that is there, it is the trend.
After a while something is going to come up and many will abandon this
euphoria. However be careful as some are really out to get friends for life
particularly your East Europeans, Asians and Africans members. Getting a
husband after Grade 12 may be difficult for some people where there are no
arranged marriages. Some persons are not even comfortable with E.Harmony,
Christian Mingle, and Roosk and so on. So do not philander and some outside
persons are there with seriousness of purpose and they may hang on your nick
even though they are thousands of miles away from Canada or America. Also, it
must be borne in mind all the time that there are devils masquerading behind
Jesus Christ’s or God’s or whoever their beliefs’ leaders are to phish or pharm
you. They are angels with real wings who turn out to be Lucifer, sycophants.
There are girls with three thousand friends. These were not twitters but real
followers. Send them a message and it will lie in their in pigeonhole for one
year without being looked into. When they are overflowing they simply delete
them. You are only acknowledged as a friend at the day of inauguration and that
is all. Ironically, the girl or chap who
has three thousand friends in real life does not talk to her next-door neighbours
even her good old friends in her school days or if I talk to mine. Do not ask
me if the writer of Tom Brown’s School Days ever communicated with his school
dudes. That is immaterial.
Some Revelations
Now, I am talking of things concerning moral values. The
mere fact that this is surfacing is going to offend many a readers, believers
or unbelievers. I am glad there are some that will approve of what the pastors
or priests or people of God are saying. The
naked truth is that the road to hell fire is paved with gold and all goodies
imaginable and that to heaven is paved with spikes or pilings. I see a
brave new world emerging in the future and ways of communicating not referred
to in George Well’s 1984. It will be more
than three dimensional pictorial and a metamophosizing of persons you want
before you. Distance will be out of the equation. You will touch and feel them
as if you were with them but their real bodies will be far away. That will lead
me to revelation about myself. My first shocking experience of Skype was when a mademoiselle in Taiwan asked us to make love on Internet. Today, I am still
puzzled as when she transmitted the message to me. The conundrum is still
spinning my head round after years as when I received the message. Now it is
the Facebook, Skype, Instagam, MSM, Youtube, Wiki, Twitter and many more in the
pipe line fighting for space as Christian fought for space in the past to get
Jerusalem and as Boko Haram and Al-Qaida are fighting to throw Westernism out
of the Christians, Middle East, S.E. Asia and Nigeria rightly Oliveria or the
Northern Hausastan some of its elements are mourning over the fact that they
have to deposit £3000 in Her Majesty’s Treasury when they apply for a
visiting visa to enter the UK. The human being imitate as a survival stratagem.
A million such things as Facebook will blossom and what will happen is still
unimaginable. I will live that for those who are able to conjecture and turn to
fruition their dreams.
Scamming
The good thing with Facebook is that you do not have a Mr.
Abdoulaye of 419 from Burkina Faso, Nigeria (Oliveria), Mrs. Theresa Smith from
Sierra Leone or Ivory Coast telling you that his parents were killed during the
civil war and it was discovered that they had $18,000,000 US in a bank account
in Geneva and they would appreciate it if you could accept to be the beneficiary
of that amount by accepting to bank part of it for them in the North America, Australia,
or Europe. They ask for your phone number and then an address to post you a
present at you birth day. Those are scamming and never ever divulge such
information. Only morons fall into such
traps. Having said this, people do try to pass viruses or bogus business deals
on Facebook. Watch out for junks and just or never ever get involved as from
the history of inception of Oliverian 419, no persons had ever benefited from
it. Then you will point me one person
who is happy with the telephone companies’ operating in Canada where a single
telephone bill per month equals one month’s salary of a hardworking person in
Congo. They all siphon money from clients who do not have ample choices and
pamper them with apologias and persuasive arguments call business acumen You
can see the adage that darkness does not come before men clean their anuses
with their hands that are clean during the day.
Discussion
The use of uncivilized languages, grotesque pictures,
burlesque writings, paintings and videos have made me to ask if there were no
moderators or if it was deliberate to allow subjects discussed or posted
un-moderated. That also triggered the subject of copyrights. Patrons who post some pictures are not the
owners of them. They are pirated or expurgated. They stumbled upon them, copy
and pasted them. They have never heard of intellectual dishonesty and piracy!
Or is this sort of piracy overwhelming and it is now ignored since it is now
dominated by the Chinese also in the manufacture of all commodities? Do they
know the cost of composition or production of some original pictures or drawing
or literature? The authors spent sleepless nights, days and even weeks or
months to capture those pictures and patrons just copy and paste them and claim
credit for them. How did I discover that there was serious copyright
infringement? I would ask those who have posted the picture to tell me the
story behind them and they just shied away. Other just thought that they were
interesting after they have copied and added on some flourishes. They are not
the original authors and this is still piracy or intellectual dishonesty. If we
allow these to continue, would we not be killing gradually initiatives for
invention or creation? Let us ponder upon this point. Have the owners of some
of the media or forums ever heard of copyright infringement and that defaulters
could pay all they ever earned for it? We
briefly mentioned abusive languages that often come up. Can one sue a patron
for the use of offensive or abusive or uncivilized language, pictures or
whatever against one? Furthermore, we understand that users are not forced and
as I once complained and I was told off that I was not obliged to stay on
Facebook if I was not interested in the content of what was posted. What of
responsibility and liability in the case where a member is abused by another
member? Will the responsibility be shouldered by the owners of Facebook or the
member who had used uncouth language? All these could be things of the past if
members respect one another and follow led-down regulations. Who will police
such rules? The point is that there is no guarantee where strangers with
greatly diversified background meet and one does not expect another to step on
another’s toes. Additionally, if I were operating it, I would ask for people
not to share personal messages. If one wants to chat with person A, the content
of their conversation should not be broadcast to all members or associate
members. That is irrelevant and waste of time and efforts. Lastly, it has been observed that some
members do not have domiciles and true names and write or sent their flowers
and pictures of their dogs, cats, chimpanzees, snakes, stable dishes in
members’ geographical regions and others anonymously. My apprehension is that
those people may have sinister plans. I defriend them. What of other clients? A
rotten borough would be welcomed as one
will be associated with a place be it Antarctica, Berlen, Durban, Hong Kong, Timbuktu, Ottawa, Okavango, Vibank, Nanfang,
Vladivostok, Brazilia, New York, Visale, Victoria, Kumbo, Ngong or Dar es Salaam.
Finales
The message I am passing is clear like this day light.
Whatever you do as your survival strategy, protect the future. Let those who
are coming after you cross the very bridge you used to traverse the turbulent
river of life. Do not cut the bridge after crossing it. Remember to always have a place in the
government for the sensitive and the insensitive. I learn one rule as a FIFA soccer
referee not long ago in Geneva, that the umpire is there to protect the weak
from the able-bodied players. Inventors and business persons, remember that
after you the world will still go on. You do not even know the date of the big
bang. Remember that the dinosaur and the dodo disappeared and many others but
the world will still go on with more and better inventions than what you are
toying on with now. At long last I know what you are thinking: You
are asking me what on earth took me to the Facebook when it was suggested by my
goddaughter’s parents in Bulgaria. If you do not know by now you will never know. However there is one penultimate thing I will tell you. I went there to see faces but I can be candid with you that you sometimes see more buttocks
than faces.
Dr. Viban Viban Ngo,
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