Not too long ago, a
lecturer from the department of languages and linguistics in one of the
universities in the south west was reported to have got into trouble following
the release of a video tape of his alleged sexual involvement with a 400 level
English student of the University. Even though many claimed the student was
raped by the lecturer, the video clip which was released by the student,
notwithstanding that some people said real sexual intercourse was not captured
in it, according to reports, was allegedly recorded in a hotel room.
A few years ago, I
watched with a mixture of anger and pity, a video clip of a lecturer, pants
down begging students who set him up with a student to let him go after signing
a cheque with a sum as ransom for his release. I watched with anger because the
man should have disciplined himself but he chose to go after students in the
game of ‘give me sex and I’ll give you
good grades’ and with pity because I could only imagine how his children,
wife and other family members would feel if they saw that video. From the
discussion which ensued, it was obvious that it was his ‘modus operandi’ to
sleep with his students for ‘good grades’ but on that particular ‘operation’ it
was a shameful one as nemesis really caught up with him that day.
Where am I headed in all of these enumerations?
A short while ago, I stumbled on this picture /post
as shown above and the caption/statement there gave rise to this write-up. I
laughed when I saw it, but then, it did make a lot of sense and will no doubts stir
up some nostalgic feelings from the lovely
ordinary way life was until technology took over.
In the past, when we go
for events or outings, we could afford to misbehave as we always knew where the
cameras were so we would avoid them especially when we want to, for example
dance in a funny way, laugh and banter the way we felt free to go and you will
not see any of the outcome on any social media platform so people ‘loosened’ up
easily at events, parties, get-togethers and what have you. We just lived our
lives feeling so free until, gbam! Social media became the ‘rave of the moment’
and everyone started being too careful and uptight whenever they are out there
for fear of being recorded and uploaded on any of the ‘one click’ social media
platforms. With that, our freedom to ‘mingle and play’ at meets went out the
windows. What a life!
A lot of people are of
the view that this technology ‘thingy’ just crept up on us took away our ‘freedom’
while another group believe that it has helped in a lot more ways than ‘freedom’
taking. Topic for another day, so I’ll stop here.
And so, while you are waiting for that topic, a
quick question is “has social media
shaped us up or shaped us out of our ‘fun-lives’”?
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