“Complacency has taken the place of outrage and demands for justice have been substituted for trending hashtags and unified profile pictures.” RevolutionEmpathySocial MediaProtestComplacencyOutrageMoral ResponsibilityAysha TaryamHashtags Author:Aysha Taryam
“Today, while the cyber world rages with ideologies and passionate moral perspectives, the streets remain comatose, echoing nothing but silence.” PoliticsRevolutionEmpathySocial MediaProtestMoralsMoral ResponsibilityAysha TaryamCyber World Author:Aysha Taryam
“The Arab poet Silm Al Khaser wrote “He who watches people dies of worry” and his words have never been more potent than in today’s world where all people do is watch others and cater to them in return.” Social MediaObsessionInstagramStalkingArab PoetSilm Al Khaser Author:Aysha Taryam
“And so it is inevitable that the day has come when we write about privacy with such nostalgia, analysing it as we would some unearthed fossil of a creature our human eyes had never fallen on.” Social MediaNostalgiaPrivacySocial Media Behaviour Author:Aysha Taryam
“So, a mistake is made, a word is spoken out of turn, a cultural norm is broken, and all is fair in the pursuit of cancelling this person, erasing them off the face of the earth, banishing them to a world of shame and regret.” MistakeSocial MediaBullyingCancel CultureSocial Media BehaviorCanceled Author:Aysha Taryam
“The problem is not in the hashtag; the problem lies in the idea that one’s contribution in spreading said hashtag ends their responsibility towards that particular issue. It is a way of clearing our conscience towards the true atrocities happening around us, because in that moment that we send out a supportive post into the world of the web we set the notion that we are somehow absolved of our sins, for silence is a sin and the hashtag breaks that silence.” Social MediaSocial Media BehaviourHashtagsViral IdeasHashtag Author:Aysha Taryam
“We are imperfect creatures created with egotistical defects, insecurities and an incomprehensible desire for perfection and the excessive use of social media feeds the raging fires within, most of the time adding salt to wounds we never knew existed and at times creating new ones.” EgoSocial MediaInstagramTwitterFacebookInsecuritiesSelfiesAysha TaryamSnapchat Author:Aysha Taryam
“Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.” MeditationMindfulnessAddictionSocial MediaInstagramFastingSelfiesSnapchatCleanseSocial Media Detox Author:Aysha Taryam
“Having to explain to a child of today, who has learned to swipe before they can speak, that certain aspects of a person’s life must remain private for the preservation of one’s sanity is almost frivolous.” ChildrenYouthSocial MediaInstagramTwitterSocial NetworkSocial Media AddictionSnapchatSocial Networking SitesPrivacy LawsPrivacy Piracy Author:Aysha Taryam
“The first few days felt quite surreal for gone was that filtered world of perfect angles made up of peoples’ best moments and selves. Gone was the wormhole that one jumped into at the sign of any awkward silence or pause in conversation.” AddictionSocial MediaInstagramTwitterFacebookSnapchatSocial Media Detox Author:Aysha Taryam
“What social-media really becomes after years of use is a constant stream of information both verbal and visual that at first drenches the mind, quenching its thirst for knowledge, and subduing its curiosity slowly but surly transforms into a torrent that renders the brain heavy and the mind restless.” Social MediaInstagramSocial Media AddictionSocial Media BehaviourSocial Media Detox Author:Aysha Taryam
“Many of us no longer expose or surround ourselves with people who disagree with us politically or ideologically, we have the ability through a click of a button to silence those whose beliefs we find culturally offensive or merely different, and while this might be both convenient and comfortable it is also dangerous.” ConflictSocial MediaIdeologyComfort ZoneSearch Engine OptimizationCyber WorldIdeological Bunkers Author:Aysha Taryam