Tumblr obviously hates facebook and after they introduced the new news feed page i started to understand why.
With the bigger picture previews, people started to post and reshare really gruesome stuff. Like, oh i don’t know, a DEAD, BLOODIED DOG, with a tagline saying “Reshare this and spread the word.” WTF?!
HOW CAN RESHARING A POST ACTUALLY HELP THE DOG IN ANY WAY? IS THE DOG GOING TO MIRACULOUSLY REVIVE ITSELF WHEN THE POST REACHES 18938 POSTS?! Simple answer: No. But you know what it does? Disturb and ruin people’s day. And that’s just 1% of it.
I know i may sound cruel, but please, i don’t want to be an annoying hypocrite. Resharing those post are like shouting to the world that you’re going to help but by the end of the day. You won’t.
Why won’t resharing help? Well, ask yourself the question. Because we are all people who are well off or too rich for words and when we see something like the Africans dying of starvation, whales slowly going extinct or some Cambodian flash flood, what comes to that SMALL part of our brain will be “Well, doesn’t concern me.” and the rest of it will be saying “Well, too bad.” and 3 seconds later, you’re back to laughing at your friend’s status updates or watching a skateboarding dog on youtube.
The reality is, we DON’T REALLY CARE, but our guilty conscious just couldn’t let it go so what do we do? We RESHARE stuff. Wow, applause for most effective disaster-buster of the year. Not.
Why not spend that 5 minutes of your life, going to Unicef online and donating 5 bucks or 10? Why not write a personal letter with your used items to ship to the poor people of Africa? Why not go to your local charity fair and REALLY HELP OUT? Instead of bombarding people’s newsfeed with annoying and disturbing pictures of dead babies.
So, please people, stop it. Stop polluting someone else’s newsfeed with such atrocities when you yourself are not even willing to get up and go help. Because i know i can’t help them, since i don’t have the power so i stay quiet.
Its better to not THINK you’re helping and ruin other people’s day. SO STOP RESHARING!
