Social Media & The Culture of Pornography (Part A)

Yah! The social media has been polluted with nudity and raunchy pictures, and you don’t need to be told that social media practitioners (Bloggers and their likes), are responsible for this show of shame and denigration of human dignity. I am a Blogger; so don’t get it twisted; but truth be told, the shenanigans of flaunting nude pictures that has taken over the social media today is reprehensible; so am gonna fires some shots at my friends and colleagues in the blogsphere who are largely responsible for this cyber gaffe; without been belligerent. 
Yes! My real intention here is to champion a course for a more value-oriented social media practice and blogging…so sweet hearts, get ready to swallow the hard pills...

The emergence and prominence of the on-line media in this technological era is indeed a welcomed development. The quicker dissemination of information is made possible by some gurus who occupy enviable positions in the cyber space. They’ve done more that you can even think of, in terms of entertainment and enlightenment of the general public…my blog site Trendy Gist has this as one of the core principles. Applauded!

But the harm of the shenanigans of pornographic materials especially from social media, can never be neglected. To a point I began to wonder, why people find such sites that do nothing but flaunt nude pictures of females, and leaked raunchy video of celebrities, so absorbing. To the best of my knowledge, it is obnoxious and intrusive; overly intrusive to dominate the media space with erotic materials just to amass wealth from on-line advertisers; it suggests hollow, worthlessness and purposelessness. Perhaps, popular site these days are ones that conveyance nothing but nudity and negativity. What a mess?

The reasons for this culture of nudity ranges from the demands of the markets to the increasing quest by we bloggers to generate high traffics and by extension make too much money. In fact, during a conversation with some of my colleagues on this dismay condition, especially on how to remedy the already abysmal situation; I was easily reprimanded like an 'unrepentant charlatan', that the culture of nudity on social media has come to stay because that is exactly what the market wants.

Put differently, the major but ostensible reason for this negation of morality as deduced by one of my blogger friends, was that we are producing for the market, and must conform to the demands of the markets else we blog ourselves out of relevance. They maintained that the hullabaloo against the upsurge of pornographic materials will definitely amount to efforts in futility. Well, he seems right but, from a negative reasoning.

Another reason why this madness has continued unabated is that bloggers and other social media actors are in dire need of traffics which in most cases translates to money from goggle ads arrangements. So you can see how the crazy for traffics has drove bloggers to update their site with all sorts of trash to attract the traffic.

Again, the crazy for fame and glamour has obviously bamboozled our young girls into shamelessness. If not, how may we explain a situation whereby a young lad in her senses will prefer to show off her décolletages in an unapologetic manner just to gain attention? What about that God forsaken pant and bra called Bikini that drool men like never before? Anyway, that should be a story for another day.  We also heard that some of the sex tapes going viral on social media these days are deliberately released by those females in the guise of leaked videos, just to gain attention. Yah! So, ladies can to any length in search of fame and popularity? God forbid!

The questions are: what are the consequences of this ever increasing raunchy and erotic social media? The question completely takes me back to the resurgence of the decadence of the modern western culture in our African society; especially ones fuelled by sexual immorality. The depreciated moral standard has seemingly brainwashed our youths into unrestrained social misconduct.

No doubt, the youths are completely left abashed by the obscurity of sex depicting pictures that are reigning supreme currently on social media. One thought that the culture of showcasing nudity in the blogsphere was in abeyance, while stiffer measures put in place by goggle to tame the beast; but the resurgence of offensive pictures from the pit of hell where it was left for some time now, calls for caution. 
To be continued…

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