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The struggle with many a rigid Logooli cultural practices

  The Logooli community is one of the deeply cultured societies – with near everything supposed to have been done as per custom – to allow another custom to follow. One example is that for a mature man (with a child or more) to be buried, there must be a house structure at home. Another is that a boy must be circumcised and nursed in father land. If maternal family decides to, the boy will have a hard time reconnecting with father people - a dent on his masculinity. There were two children who got burnt to death in a house in Nairobi. The single mother had left for night work. Elders were told that one of the children was Logooli. The other, the woman had sired with someone else. The Logooli family wanted to burry their little one and long discussed the do’s and don’ts. Of a man who died childless and the grave was placed as if he had died as a man with children. It should have been dug on the sides, the grave. A real thorn should have been thrust in his buttocks, his name go...
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DISLIKE: As many likes you have been receiving, expect dislikes.

Mark Zuckerberg has to accept what the customers prefer. It is unwelcome to ‘edit’ your work to include or omit things that you do not stand for. But Mark, as he accepts ‘other positive changes’, he should also accept ‘other changes’. It boils the bowels to find that a CBO you started is wrangling over an issue and you can’t do a thing (or can do little) simply because the dunderheads subscribed reward goodness with challenge and have some rights.

As we impatiently wait for the button so that we may propagate our rational and irrational endeavours, I am pessimistic that the button will soon lose its meaning. Reasons as to why people are calling for the button is curiosity- that made Eve pluck the fruit. Because we don’t have it and never seen it in use, then let us introduce it. We know that we will handle the consequences. But that will add menu to the idling internet- instead of us discussing promiscuity, let us see which posts received the highest dislikes and why. It will give the like button a life.

The like button has been an orphan who can be easily manipulated for any gains. Some have liked burial posts because they are too tired to write their condolences. If you ask them, their answer is ‘recognition’ of the post. Weird posts like promiscuity and hanging breasts have lacked a way to engage among the haters…if they comment they will seem stupid when others see their activities; and liking is not an option. 

In a political world voters will dislike as many posts of an opponent. This will mean that a politician will regulate the likes and dislikes on a post. They may advocate doing away with the button- politicians are politicians. Obama will be disliked by radical republicans who see no good in whatever post. To some, they will confuse which button to click- dislike will be the confused on.

This may not make Facebook as interactive as such. It will lower the heavens to the Earth. It has been a good place where all the selfies and Public Relations have flourished. The ugliest in persons have plastered themselves pretty yellow. The poorest in spirits have been writing inspirational quotes for the ‘poorest most’.
Few people get concerned with important posts. Many are lured by ad verecundiam that fallasizes that the one in authority may be speaking the right thing. That is why celebrities and politicians are duplicated responses- You are the best! I doubt whether the infamous will start receiving dislikes if so there was nothing to like in their posts.

There may also be a people who will be coed not to express themselves well in fear of being ‘disliked’. The more contradictory one is, the risky. You will not be a chauvinist and be allowed to scot free- dislikes will bombard you. This will affect socialization because when people talk without thinking of consequences, they talk real. That can make us learn a few things. Instead of openness, there will be under table socialization. It may only take a single post to have a reputation leveled down to sea level by clicking the upside-down thing.

To me, nirvana is about to end when it comes to social media. There are people who are not suited for Earth where the rule of the jungle is the golden path and there may be another invention for them.  It may be the start of the end of Facebook.
 
This will keep us idling in talk for sometime.


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