How social media exposes our hidden wickedness

Facebook user: Some people post distasteful comments on social media
Facebook user: Some people post distasteful comments on social media

Who are we? How come we do not extend the same courtesy when we are on the Internet that we do live? Do we show our true personalities when we type away on the keys of our mobile phones or in front of tilted computer screens? Or when we post our opinions to the world through social media? Are we our true selves when we politely greet each other with wide grins?

One would not believe we belong to a nation that has aspirations of being labelled “Peaceful, Compassionate and Loving” just from reading the profanity we trade online daily.

As recent as last week, when we returned from the Easter holidays social media and Mmegi Online broke with the sad report of the missing Botswana Police Service helicopter.

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