Technology they say is the mother of all inventions, no doubt technology has benefitted us in so many ways that we can ever imagine but we cannot rule out the fact that it has some disadvantages as well, nothing is completely good you know. In this context it has armed bullies with the power to cause havoc online within the confines of their homes.
Bullies can now confidently troll people online for all they know nobody knows their location, this brings me to the popular Nigeria slangs ‘I am in my house come and beat me’. People are so badly behaved in real life that they extend it to the online space as well.
Trolls are Psychopaths
Trolls are sadists, psychopaths, kill joys etc. I still cannot imagine or understand how a normal human being would wake up in the morning and your agenda for that day is to destroy people’s happiness, if that is not a psycho, then I do not know the best adjective to describe them again.
You sit behind your laptop or phone to write lies, trash and stupid things about people not minding who the culprit is, and you are happy about it?
Celebrities and Trolls
It’s funny how anybody can be trolled, regardless of your status or race, but i want to focus on celebrities, this is because these set of social beings have suffered in the hands of trolls than most regular people hence my focus on them.
Celebrities are not super-humans, they have emotions too, they have the ability to feel pain or get hurt as well. I hear one bad thing about myself from people and I feel really bad automatically, no one wants a soiled reputation, just imagine hearing tons of bad things about yourself on the internet on a regular bases, how would you feel? I mean things that can literally drive you insane.
‘Don’t listen to people’, ‘people must talk’, how many times do these pep talks work on these celebrities? Most of these celebrities are terribly sick, some are lonely despite the number of people that hang around them but some of us do not still sympathize or empathize with them at all.
Over the years we’ve had a good number of celebrities who left social media for their sanity, a lot of them are depressed from constantly being on the news courtesy of these trolls.
Bloggers as agents of cyber bullying
The second category of people that I am constantly angry at are bloggers, bloggers make huge amounts of money from writing fake and unverified stories of people on their blogs. As a professional how do you work with mere assumptions and rumors?, how do you even sleep at night after dragging your fellow human being’s name in the mud.
“The more shame, the more clicks”, the more money you make from killing other people. Bloggers should be very careful with the type of information they post on their blogs.
We all treat and see these celebrities as super-humans forgetting that the same blood that flows in our veins is still the same that flows in theirs. “They have money, they can easily take down the story” some people would say, but I ask is money everything? Can money repair all the damages?
Next time you want to criticize or post a hate comment just know that celebrities are first humans before they became celebrities and try to cut them some slack.
Thank you.
Loads of love🥰🥰🥰
