Khair! The poor little website administrator at my work was so happy that finally, our company was moving into a more mature web-presence. He finally managed to get the Facebook Page up and running, and he emailed people to follow through a newsletter. In a day, the numbers went from 13 (mostly mine, thanks everyone who 'liked') to 66 fans. However, there was one gentleman who was not quite happy. He emailed back and he used language that even angels would tremble if they would have read it. Indeed, the whole "Draw Day" controversy made Facebook evil but was it necessary to include all those nice words that rhyme with "duck".
The gentleman while immersed in total emotions forgot that swearing is a sin too and a simple email saying "no thanks" would have helped but he showed that he (and a lot of similar Muslims like him) cannot handle things without the right sentiments. It is our over-reaction to some important issues which makes us look stupid and even leave us vulnerable for further attacks. Most of my friends did not use Facebook in the summer this year, and I know quite a few who still are not using it. I appreciate that some guys out there tried to make an alternative but there were no originality in them. It would been have a punch to the face if we would have gathered our resources and would have made "Facebook" alternative, fit for us. Rather to capitalize on our glory, we made several sub-standard pages which perished in no time.
If anyone thinks that I am defending my company's Facebook presence then I would say that you would be disappointed to know that I am not doing that. My point here is while we express our sentiments, we should keep do it in a classier manner. Being offensive is all right but it is time to do more. It is time that we all learn to attack and do some good damage, if someone dares to tarnish something sacred to our beliefs.
1 comment:
well you have a point but ahem sentiments are too high on this issue so i would suggest to talk less about this
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