the fall of holding one's tongue

just two weeks ago, i was telling debs about how i finally signed up for twitter so that i can keep up with the youth in church, to know what they are up to. im like their cell group leader, the least i can do is keep up right?

anyway, she mentioned something that i observed all along, just that it never occured to me to look at it further. with the rise of social media, it seems like people are able to convey their thoughts so much easier, so much faster, to so many more people. they are more likely to say something they wouldnt dare in the age without social media. which is so very true. with the bulk of the people on social media belonging to the younger group, the lack of maturity displayed by a lot is beginning to irritate me.

people no longer think about what they want to say. they just post it, not checking whether its fact, or whether it will pissed people off. there's this one guy, on my facebook friends list. he is super anti-government, and everyday, he will post certain things to put the government in a bad light. if everything is fact, and that he is being constructive, then i have nothing to comment about. but the sad thing is nothing he says is constructive, a lot of his comments are just biased to the core. i can so imagine him not saying anything about it if the same thing happens to the parties he supports. it has come to a point where im seriously comtemplating removing him from my friends list, to rid my world of one more evil.

also today, i learned about a certain organization, getting into a little bit of trouble because some guy chose to read too much into a message, made a big deal about it, and the netizens just do what they do best. make every situation worst. seriously, they do nothing else, nothing constructive.

it seems like behind the screens, people can behave like idiots. people that dont think, people that arent considerate. they just do whatever they want to, say whatever they want to. i really have no explanations why there are so many of such people out there.