Social Media: A space for the crude and the refined personalities

Technology has created a platform for easy actualization of tasks over the years, and it has added value to mankind with its ability to work faster than human energy could actualize per time. It created an awareness of easy interactions amongst people which is clearly seen as the social media sphere.

As much as the public craves for technology usage,It has however exposed the status, believes,  culture, etiquette, mannerisms, appreciation of beauty, and the opposite of its possessors, social media platform as an example. When social media is said,  we refer to the twitter, Facebook, BBM, WhatsApp, Instagram, 2go, and other related to the stated. The idea of all these applications is to connect the world, and not just a sect which is seen in the public's sphere theory by Jurgen Herbamas of how some are seeing at the coffee shop to discuss public germane issues. Taking a step further,  it is clearly seen that social media has reflected the true worth of each personality that familiarize themselves with the new information, communication technology and their take on public issues.
On each piece written by a participant, people often ignore the piece and move further to 'like' the razzmatazz, paparazzi of photographs posted. The illumination is that,  people in most cases choose to appreciate the colourful life over the importance of a discourse posted on walls, and the spaces. This appreciation of photographs has in large measure contributed to competition amongst some participants on the social media platform. My case as an example; I posted a piece accompanied by a photograph on Facebook, surprisingly, I got more than 30 likes for the photograph, and less than 14 likes for the piece, simplifies that people are interested in my looks than what I have to offer.

There are two personality categories identified according to a research done. We have the crude and the refined on the platform, and these two  sets have succeeded in their own bit. The refined are the ones that see the space as expression of their true form, without no injection of ego, but some level of objectivity,  while some that are referred to be the crude  are the ones that hide their true colours under picture collage, and project what the public want to know and not what they should know. Hypocrisy has taken over the media,  and what evolves is a fake identity painted to be the true identity of such individuals.

Social media has created the connection,  it would be an act of ingratitude to say its advent has polluted the generation on earth, but it should be addressed that the inappropriate usage of social media by the public is the issue to be tackled. Social media has turned to a market place where we have things of different grades, levels, sizes, figures misrepresented to be human,while the true humans are of  no relevance.

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SOME MILES AWAY FROM TREASURE

The more I walk in the desert,  the less I have fear for my existence. My land is dry,  no water, no food, people are far away, and my soul thirsts for break away from the earth.

This is a fictional story of the poor and the sick. The poor often think about how to survive, and make ends meet, the sick grieves about how to pass the hurdle of diseases and break the barricades of plague. Often times these two segmented categories are always the victims of death, apart from the cases of home, automobile, and air crash accidents.

The poor suffer for lack of money, food, shelter and all, while the sick feels the pain of illness. I see a young boy picking foods from the bin, chews it and swallows it, the next day he cries of stomach upset, his poor mother gives him herbs because she can't afford to pay the clinic bills. The boy passes through this travail for months, until one day when a neigbour comes to call his mother where she begs for money that her little boy is dead. Unfortunately,  the boy died of typhoid.

The sick is lying helplessly on the bed,  waiting for a doctor to perform the miracle so that his health will be restored. He thinks in his mind that his life is a gamble if the doctors do not exist. Hopefully he says, that if his health is restored, he would eat all the meals he missed while bed reading.

The poor people are less privileged, and both the poor and the rich are also less privileged if illness sets in. I have heard of the rich die of illnesses, and the poor too. Money cannot buy life, so also poverty can short live a life.

There are people that are miles away from treasure,  but the treasured in treasures should help to treasure the lives of the people that are less treasured. Sow seeds in the lives of the less privileged,  and the souls shall never forget your good deeds.

IS TUNDE KELANI ON THE STARDOM LIST?

A photography expert,  movie engineer who is vast in almost every area of the Nigerian movie industry, the legend behind some movie productions nicknamed T.K which describes his name, Tunde Kelani paid an August visit to the university of Lagos mass communication department. The icon stated categorically that consistency and passion have been his strength behind the success of all his input and output.  It was a lunch of words amongst the masters students, the lecturers in charge of the course that triggered the invitation and the master of movies as he enunciated that he travelled outside the country to a movie academy,  but his passion has been the drive that made him to a stardom level of  being a television icon.

 Tunde Kelani narrated his ordeals as not being friendly, from the days he had to trek from home to where he was an apprentice, and how he had sacrificed some financial gains for better picture and story line quality. He never hid the onions as he emphasized that good story line is the secret behind a good photography which illuminates that the good picture quality of a badly sketched story wouldn't make the audience appreciate a well filmed picture. According to him,  the whole production crew are tasked to put in their effort for a better outcome of every production,  stating that a director shouldn't shoulder the abusive words when the whole production doesn't suit the viewing of its audience.

 Some of the movies that are associated with TK's record are some indigenous films;  'Maami' a movie that featured Funke Akindele, Wole Ojo and a host of special appearances, Saworoide,  and Agogo Eewo which is the second leading part of saworoide movie,  and a host of other movies. And some of the movies engineered by him have been nominated for different awards by different academies.

 Tunde Kelani was welcomed in a honourable manner by the head of the department of mass communication,  Dr Abigail Ogwezzy , Professor Ralph Akinfeleye, Dr Ifeoma Amobi,  and Mr Husseini Shuaibu for the visit to enlighten the students that are interested in the movie industry practice.