Social Media is a web. A dangerous web. Those trolled fall in it like flies to the spider web. It is almost inescapable. There is no running away from it.
Recently a doctor from north Kashmir found it in a hard way after a list of doctors who tested positive for Covid-19 was leaked on social media. The list which should have never leaked on social media revealed apart from other things the cellphone numbers of the doctors who were declared Covid-19 positive. One interesting case was that of a pregnant doctor whose name is peculiar as it is mainly a name we associate with male population of valley.
Soon social media erupted. The netizens were aghast at the administration for declaring a male doctor as pregnant. A majority conjectured that most likely the test swabs were swapped in the testing laboratory. People made fun of the fact that how a male doctor could be declared pregnant. Soon the joke was on everyone’s lips. Everyone had it as a status or a tweet.
The female doctor to her embarrassment had to clarify and criticized the netizens for their insensitive comments. One can imagine the hurt it must have cause to the female doctor who is already struggling with the Covid-19 and is into the 9th month of pregnancy.
Social media is growing dangerously and is completely unfettered. It has become a kind of a boxing ring where you put down the choicest people with slander and abuse. The administration must watch for the abusers, the name callers, and the professional trolls and take punitive action against them. Let us all have a peacefully coexistence on social media.
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