As a kid I was taught to keep quiet;
- When adults are speaking and
- When I don’t have anything positive to say
Over time I truly began to understand the importance of the latter and over the years I have tried to teach people around me to only speak when they have something tangible to say or best keep quiet. In reality It’s not every time you talk sometimes just shut up.
Since the invention of social media all some Nigerians have learnt how to do with this platform is pass across their insults faster. While our counterparts are busy making money through this platform or looking for ways to add more value with it some Nigerians are busy struggling for the position of the biggest troll online.
What really is the point of posting horrible and sometimes derogatory comments on other people’s walls or instagram pages. The worst trolls are those ones who spend man hours fighting each other under the comment page of someone else, like my brother and sister don’t you have bills to pay
Let’s play this out. As a troll
1. You half of the time have never met this said person you are dragging down
2. The existence of the person you are bashing has no effect on your life or happiness
3. You don’t pay the bills or take care of the needs of the person you are insulting
4. Your opinion is as useless and unnoticeable like one mosquito in a pot of stew
5. You are nothing but a nuisance to the owner of the page, other users of the platform and then yourself
6. Don’t you have anytime important to do with your time like work, make money, read your
books, mind your business perhaps, you know anything to stop you from being a troll
I mean I have seen the worst comments online. How is anyone comfortable insulting someone they don’t know? How can you comfortably say things that can make someone else commit suicide? We all know Nigerians have their way with insults the kind that can make you jump off a bridge.
Sometimes I sit down and I ask myself do these trolls see what they type before they post them?
Well next time you are about to post abusive messages on the pages of other people or insult a celebrity or an individual you probably don’t know think about the following
- One day you are going to have kids (if you don’t have already) who would probably come
across these derogatory comments of yours but if you have kids already and yet still act like a
nuisance online then I feel bad for your kids
- Imagine your current/future employer or investor seeing these comments? Have you
seen people like Mark Zuckerberg and Otedola insult people online? Oh You think anyone wants
to be around a troll whose best skill is to insult people’s destinies
- Imagine your future spouse or in-laws seeing these , oh you think people would like to stay
around a foul mouth for the rest of their lives.
- If someone posted the same nasty comments on your wall how would you feel about them
The summary of the matter is quit being a troll. If your criticism about something isn’t important its better you keep it to yourself. Don’t tear people down, life is already a war don’t add yours and don’t get angry when they clap back at you either.
Don’t insult Kate Henshaw or Toyin Aimakhu only to get angry whey they insult you back. Oh you think because they are celebrities they are built for insults.
Just QUIT BEING A TROLL use the internet for what it was created for, just incase you don't know the internet was created to;
- Provide knowledge
- Connect you to the rest of the world.
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