“Only post
online what you can actually say in real life”, says Bianca Gonzales.
This
statement for me is true since as a responsible person you should be
responsible enough to all your actions as well. Living in this modern era, Blogs,
Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites have become an instant
power tools to voice our opinion and broadcast our thoughts. These platforms have
become an extension of our social life in cyber world where we can communicate
and exchange thoughts with people across seas; shout out our feelings, learns
new culture and many more uses. Though these tools are free media but it doesn’t
imply that each of us has the full freedom to say whatever we want. Do you
remember when you sign in for an account? If you remember, there was so called
terms and conditions you agreed. This states all your rights with using your
account and limits to when you should be responsible enough. In that terms and
conditions you can even read that they will take information from you but
mostly we neglect of noticing it as long we can have an account and get the privilege
and pleasure to communicate with people without wondering we exchange our own classified
information to them. In Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities [1]
for example, in ‘Section 3: Safety’ particularly numbers 6 through 9 states our
commitment and responsibilities in posting and sharing to Facebook and thus if we
violate any of those including any of the commitments like ‘Section 2: Sharing
Your Content and Information’ and ‘Section 5: Protecting Other People’s Rights’,
‘sections 14: Termination’ will be the cause. Number 6 clearly highlights that “You
will not bully, intimidate, or harass any user”, therefore if we post any discrimination
and malicious post, we users are responsible unto it and assumed to be also responsible
in real life. Given the responsibility, the only difference between posting and
speaking is that if we speak bad intensions in front of the person he/she will
be discriminated and some people might know it but posting on social networking
site considering millions of users, the whole world will know and it’s beyond
ashamed. Posting in social networking sites is a fragile and dangerous matter,
with just one post you can easily put someone down. Thus we post something, we
must make sure that we can stand it in real life and be responsible unto it.
On the
contrary, the post of Bianca Gonzales could be false. Since from the idea of
posting it on the internet it means you’re incapable of saying it in person.
Despite with terms and conditions, the ultimate goal of having a social networking
site is to expression and expose once thought and feeling that are can’t be
express in real world. Thus if we limit ourselves to express our true selves,
so what’s the point having a Facebook Wall? If we take social networking site
is all about communication why not only make it as a messaging application or
chat box? Why include the wall? Because by having the wall we are allowed to
post on it whenever we want, whatever we want and whoever who wants, right? If
social media have limitation, is it a threat to our freedom of speech or violation
to our human rights? Expressing once selves makes some people happy, satisfied
and comfort, so are we need to deprive them to it? Yes, responsibility is
important but it doesn’t imply that we need to be responsible at all time,
since in this world their is no fully responsible person but only person that aware
to responsibility. Awareness is not equal to doing it or following it, so we
must consider that as a human we could be rational sometimes. Going back to the statement, we could say that we can’t always be responsible or do whatever we say or post online and that's make us
human.
In
conclusion, regardless whatever we choose, the most important thing is we know
our stand and that’s a responsibility. We must consider the welfare of our own
and our society; and that’s also a responsibility.
Reference
[1] Facebook
Statement of Rights and Responsibilities: https://web.facebook.com/legal/terms
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