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Don't be sour grapes!

We are told that responding to stupid remarks on our online posts is not worth the effort. It is a known fact that most of the people who make these nonsensical rants are a minority but are loud enough to cause embarrassment. In real life, they would be too timid to say anything 'on your face' but gain Dutch courage through the cloak of anonymity and bang away their keyboards with impunity. While most of their shenanigans do not amount to much more than a storm in a teacup, it does excite the feeble-minded, which may describe the majority. Then there are paid trolls who kick dirt to keep a topic alive or plainly bully.  When the Malaysian Sport and Youth Minister was caught posing with the Olympic Badminton Silver Medallist, she was chided as being unpatriotic. The Silver Medal winner, a Thai player, had earlier defeated our player. So, to pose for a photograph, praise his game and label herself as his fangirl was, in the troll's opinion, bad taste and adding insult to inju...

Real courage is in living!

Sajini Shinde ka Viral Video (Sajni Shinde's Viral Video, Hindi; 2023) Written & Directed by:  Mikhil Musale People who profess that humanity is very much alive have not been trolled on social media before. Just because they are behind the cloak of anonymity, perhaps with a fictitious name or a fake account, they have the fortitude to bait users into a vicious argument with the intent of causing hurt to an intended person or parties. It is a cyberbullying. The problem is sometimes it is self-made. We put too much information on our social media; sometimes, we need to think. Not everyone out there is going to laugh with us with our goofiness. Many create mountains out of molehills. And not everyone is going to handle criticism kindly. Pew Research Center reported in a 2022 survey that 46 % of U.S. teens aged 13 to 17 have experienced some form of cyberbullying, which may include trolling. Amongst adults, what goes online is scrutinised by others and made a big deal, and soon, ne...