When people close to me express their frustration on nonsense or absurdities written on the Facebook and other similar places and seriously delve into the discussions of such level, I always answer, this is the internet, the weight of the view here is not heavier than the feathers, people write here not so much for you to read as to overcome their own mental problems. When you approach all these “statuses”, “likes” and comments from these standards, life becomes more glowing.
In particular, the Facebook “community” is segmented; the man, first of all, saves his like-minded persons among his friends and, naturally, wants to earn their praising. Accordingly, if you write a “status”, then it is natural that you expect to see underneath written, “Nail him!”, “Show him his place!”, “Wrecked him!”, “kill him!” Your post is designed for just such an assessment, and it is normal that its stylistic orientation should be “Nail him!”
The point, I would like to emphasize, is about how active “the user” is rather than the media “shared” article. I am interested in people reading my article rather than like it. Although there are many campaign media, whose goal is also “to wreck him” and “show him his place.” It also corresponds to the famous Lenin statement that the newspaper is not only a collective propagandist but also a collective organizer.
But, fortunately, there are also classic media (also, Internet), whose goal is to give a material for people with different views to think and discuss. The Facebook in this respect has diametrically the opposed goal – to choose people with the same interests, the same mindset and the same political posture and give them the opportunity to admire one another. If, by chance, someone appears in the “hostile environment”, then the rest will “attack” so that the next time he will not try to “poke his nose” there.
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Being so much “fragmented”, any “user” in each group is confident that his and the “people’s” opinions coincide one to one. It is very normal. Being cooked in some pot, you see only the representatives of “these people” and have no idea that there could be “other people”.
People spend hours, days and months on debating on the Internet. If they go into details, the whole life will not be enough for it.
Aram ABRAHAMYAN
