Social media, regardless of this, has been a really destructive tool to people’s self-esteem, confidence and morale. It strips people of their dignity and provides their past mistakes with the right platform to showcase people’s flaws.
Nude pictures sit at the top of this rank. Levels had social media buzzing, Mai tt is the current victim of a medium meant for entertaining, informing and educating, which makes me wonder where education or entertainment is.
Think about this for a second, what kind of people will we be if we turn a blind eye to nude pictures, pretend we haven’t seen them and go, in full force might I suggest, against the person circulating them?
While this is something we might judge people for, it takes so much more from them than we might think. A person would have judged him or herself and we tend to add to that, holy Mary’s condemning the Judas among us. We are slowly turning into unsympathetic people who carelessly throw hurtful words. People make mistakes and we are no one to judge them…Why not advise and reprimand
Studies have shown that influential people, who have the power to condemn such acts choose to be passive for fear of being bullied, judged or stripped of social status and at times because they aren’t friends with the victim. As much as they have their concerns, they have a mandate as public figures to comment and speak up in defence of the victim, and shun the whole system. These are people with a thousand loyal followers and their upholding morality will be a huge step towards ending cyberbullying.
Social media is unregulated but if the nation can condemn the destructive creature responsible for a thousand deaths and use that same medium to send a strong and loud message to perpetrators then we can do away with cyberbullying.
We are the audience, we provide the platform, and we have the power. We may launch and run campaigns to end cyberbullying and ending suicides but all that will be in vain and a pretence to humanity if we still choose to be passive recipients and not reprimand those fostering cyberbullying. We have the power to create a safe space for everyone.
While social media acts as the catalyst in this equation, taking nude pictures is a huge no in bold capitals and a thousand xs. It could be the beginning of your end.
The law, if not thoroughly enforced, becomes useless and law on paper. Without our input, suicide rates will surely increase. Let us take posting nude pictures as what it is…A CRIME‼️
Kundai Larvena Shambara
Journalist | Social Justice Activist
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