Saturday, April 20, 2013

MY FACEBOOK IS NOT YOUR PORN SITE!

By William Dekker

It’s a digital era and no one is left behind, that’s why you won’t be surprised my grandma’s online friends are already 26 and counting. That is the sum of the “digital” members of the extended family. That’s already off-the-cuff, back to the main agenda, Facebook porn; vivid pornography in the social media.

All along this has been a platform that, to me, would provide solace and homage whenever the real world becomes too stressful. Here I would find many “casual pals” who would help me shed off burdens and at times share in laughter. And then comes in a trend that, by all means, should not receive any leniency and support from anyone, no matter the age, gender or origin. The decency of all times is lost; a new scenario sets in:

i) Creating pages with titles of sexual inclination; Examples include definitions of prostitutes, sex events, or “pages with age rating”. There are ethics in critical writing but in this case I wouldn’t be shy to shun pages that exhibit moral filth, hereby ready with a few examples I am acquainted with but with a little encryption: “Kama wewe ni under 18 usijaribu kujoin”, “poko yule.

ii) Creating pages with suggestive titles; superficially sounding like some gossip or “exposing hidden realities” with different intentions e.g. “Nairobi Prostitutes exposed”, “Sex in Kenyan Campuses exposed” etc.

iii) Creating events that by all definitions are sex itself e.g “kutombana reloaded etc”

iv) Consequently, the daily content from this pages are uncensored pics of sex scenes and hardcore nudity, many at times girls. (These attract a wider audience, men and a few lesbians.)

v) Individuals upload nude pics on their profiles as if to create some comic scenes. Some are often accompanied by captions that explain the intention of the perceived persona in the picture; e.g. intention to have sex with someone etc.

vi) More stupid is the fact that you, the Facebook user, is asked to type either a letter or a word to see what happens to the picture. Basic knowledge people! If you are already someone signed up on Facebook then it means you have sufficient knowledge to know that a still-picture has no motion. You have the common-sense to differentiate between an image and a movie! Simple! Typing “1” or “send” doesn’t make any difference to a JPEG image uploaded 2 minutes prior! Evidently that’s a plain test of stupidity on a day that is not Fool’s Day!

Let’s take case (i) and (ii) in their immediate context. Here is a look at a sample page. “Sex in Kenyan Campuses exposed”. The content is absolutely different from what the title suggests. I’m in campus but such content is non-existent! Actually there is always no relation. For example, a case where the page’s admin posts a nude pic of a lady he claims just ‘inboxed’ him with the intent of requesting admin’s assistance; a case where the girl in question desires someone for a one night stand at a fee, somewhere in Kakamega. How is that exposing sex in campus? That is turning Facebook into Koinange, Kakamega version for that matter.

What is more baffling is that most of these pages are ran by Kenyans (though some are foreign I admit). The titles are a mixture of Swahili words and local slang (sheng) to capture the target audience. Surely, Kenyans? This is an act of primitivism and 3rd class stupidity, a huge embarrassment. The administrators, fans and followers of these pages are an exhibition of colossal filthiness, polluting a platform that was created for a far much different and better purpose.

Don’t ask me how I came across the pages since anything you do on Facebook now is by default, public. Such dirty minds and addicts of porn should better embrace reality. Mark you, there are porn sites, licensed and fully equipped. Sex is existent in the real world. It only takes two to tango; use you human stature to satisfy your needs and “MOVE ON”. Did I say move on? Yeah, that’s a trending word I couldn’t avoid. That would be more modest than turning a decent site into a world of indecency and ethical degradation! Case closed, the fight is still on!

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