viernes, 18 de octubre de 2013

Filters

To begin with this topic I want to make something clear, I don’t meant to offend anybody with my beliefs or with what I write. My intention is that you reflect upon it while you are reading and if you don’t feel like leaving a comment is ok then.
Having stated that, my idea for today’s post is to tell you about a situation that I underwent a few days ago. I was revising my facebook account and I come across a very disturbing post (it was disturbing for me at least) where someone explained about a 6 year-old boy that wanted to be a girl and that his mother had allowed a surgery in order for the boy to become a girl. This person not only explained the situation but also sentenced the mother by insulting her and calling her names that I won’t mention here. The post was really aggressive because it also made mention of God and how it was a sin to go against the nature imposed by God. “Pepita” (this is how I call this person) claimed that it was written in the bible that that was an aberration and even more, if someone would be willing to allow her children to do that, that person deserved to die. o.O
I felt quite irritated when I read that and I needed to write something back to that person so, I used the most polite words I could find and I explained to her that although she didn’t agree with the mother’s decision  she should not use such  hard lines to show it. My intention was to make her realize that she was promoting fury and that she also could hurt someone else’s feeling with her words.
But it was not only her who used to write very aggressive posts, is many other people who have no “filter” in their mouths, or in this case, in their writings. We all have our opinion and it is ok that we express them. Let’s just be careful with how we say things since we ARE writing for the rest if we make it public like in facebook.


2 comentarios:

  1. I believe that sometimes we get angry and we don't control what we say, but I know that’s not an excuse at all. What I also think is that there are people who like being controversial and they enjoy creating more drama. A person who speaks in that way shouldn’t name God or the Bible because they contradict themselves. Besides, we always tend to criticize instead of feeling some empathy for the other person and for what they may be going through. A gadget should be invented to filter those hurtful comments all around the world.

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  2. Well I would say that Facebook was invented, people use it as a private diary which is not "private" at all. It is really disgusting to see how people post every single detail of their lives (I´m going to the gym, Doing the homework, Going to the bathroom, Having sex,etc). It really puts me on my nerves. But what it is even more disturbing is the fact that some people have no filter as regards their lives as well as with the others. It is ok to be angry and to disagree with some things but that does not neccesarily mean that you have to post it for everyone to see it.

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