This is the question the horrific new ‘game’, #DeadPose, that has been doing the rounds on social media, brings to mind.
Social media users use the hashtag to post pictures of themselves posing as dead and seeing how popular it has become with Twitter users, makes me question the type of society we have turned into. There have been a number of other similar trends on social media that show just how insensitive our fixation with tweeting and ‘Facebooking’ the moment, makes us.
We are living in a society that is more concerned with being popular instead of doing the right thing. One can’t take away the positive influence that some social media platforms have. But do we really have to embrace every hashtag?
We are condoning bad behaviour and giving it a platform. We have lost the ability to feel and share pain with others. Is it because we have attached too much value on material things that we have lost our decency?
We find hurting others more meaningful than helping them. We are slowly losing the true meaning of life and killing ourselves in the process. Maybe it’s time we take a step back and really evaluate the causes we support and look at the impact they have on society and on our lives.
Read: Mrs Vee’s Cup Of Words
