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Brainless Facebook


I’m becoming increasingly convinced that Facebook [FB] is for the brainless. No wonder why youngsters have abandoned it and taken to other media such as Instagram.

FB censored the links to my blog posts twice in succession last week. The posts are innocuous.


1.     The Napalm Girl: The post is about Kim Phuc, the nine-year-old Vietnamese girl who survived one of the most brutal and absurd wars in human history. FB removed my link merely because the post contained the classical photo of the little girl running in pain. FB’s sense of morality stirred its fervent head. But FB permits utter balderdash written by scoundrels!

2.     Women and Breast Politics: This is the other post that met with FB’s idiosyncratic sense of morality. The post is about how women were made to go bare-chested in Kerala till as recently as the turn of the 20th century. It contained a couple of pictures which I had copy-pasted from an illustrious Malayalam weekly which is read by certain elite readers in Kerala. I mean, the magazine is not read by the rank and file. Now you know why FB finds certain things immoral: FB is meant for the riffraff. But I choose to stick with it for a while yet. I need to learn certain things more from it about global human idiocy.

 As a friend said, "Social media amplifies voices but often dilutes thought, offering a stage for fleeting opinions while sidelining the depth of critical reasoning."

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  1. Yamini MacLeanDecember 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM

    Hari Om
    I never did sign up to it. That quote at end is spot on! YAM xx

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  2. Liz A.December 3, 2024 at 8:40 AM

    FB is for old people. And it's a mess. I only check mine because my SIL posts things there sometimes. And I'll wish people a happy birthday. I haven't posted anything just for me in years.

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    1. Tomichan MatheikalDecember 3, 2024 at 9:04 AM

      I use it for getting my blog across to a few people. There's a sizeable number of readers who come via that platform.

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