Tag: Social Media
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The Pirates of Privacy
Privacy is an illusion created between those with the power and those without (Modified quote from the matrix). The only difference between piracy and privacy is power, the power of bringing down the world on knees. Recently, what’s app announced the revised privacy policy, and people went crazy. It was the declaration that we have…
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The Great Gullibility
“When emotion supersedes reason …gullibility must follow – Barbara Mertz” Common sense is very uncommon in the modern world, and everything which can’t be understood leads to gullibility. You can’t underestimate the people who have a tremendous capability of surrendering to tricksters and those who have the power to trick people. The social media has…
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Comparison of Unequal
“Comparison is a slippery slope to jealousy.” Danielle LaPorte The comparison starts with doubt, whether you doubt yourself or others. It is indeed a double-edged sword, and you can’t swing when you are in doubt. We always compare apples vs oranges to arrive at a decision – Which is better? Why do we compare? Well,…
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Social Cult
A cult has always been a part of human history, and we have witnessed all sorts of cults from a cult in a small tribe to cult on social media with millions of followers. People use euphemism for the cult figure as an influencer, leader, activist, celebrity, motivational guru, sportsman, and many more. The cult…
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The Art of Faking
If you can fake it, then you can make it, and this might be the motto of the majority of the people, which they follow knowingly or unknowingly. People can fake in every aspect of life, and we have mastered the art with the help of social media. The more you fake, the more you…
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Prison of Social Media
Thanks to the internet, we are now living in a virtual world and social media is the nuclear core of nuclear plant which is the internet. Now people are living dual life one is virtual and other is real, I must compare this with the movie “The Matrix” unlike we have right to choose between…
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Great Expectations
I may have copied the title from the book of Charles Dickens but it’s got nothing to do with the book. Great expectations lead to disappointments and plausible explanation could be, we don’t expect what we want rather what others want. Why we expect? Sometimes we feel that we have put efforts in something and…
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Freedom of Internet
We live in a cynical world and obsession of the internet grew faster when India got freedom from the 2G network. I still remember when the internet was a huge big deal in India, way back in the early 2000s. In the early 2000s, social media was brand new to Indians and in a small town where I spent…
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