{"id":3041,"date":"2016-09-11T19:14:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2016-09-11T19:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T19:14:31","slug":"the-mob-of-social-media-cyber-hyenas-cyber-vandals-character-assassins-invade-internet-lament-rampaging-crowd-in-cyberspace-opposite-of-mark-zuckerberg-regrets-im-sure-facebook-owne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/the-mob-of-social-media-cyber-hyenas-cyber-vandals-character-assassins-invade-internet-lament-rampaging-crowd-in-cyberspace-opposite-of-mark-zuckerberg-regrets-im-sure-facebook-owne\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mob of Social Media…Cyber-hyenas, Cyber-vandals, Character assassins Invade Internet’ * Lament: ‘Rampaging crowd in Cyberspace opposite of Mark Zuckerberg’ *Regrets: ‘I’m sure Facebook owner will be mortified how Nigerians fouled his platform’ BY BAYO ONANUGA, MD, News Agency of Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mob of Social Media<\/span>…Cyber-hyenas, Cyber-vandals, Character assassins Invade Internet’<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Lament: ‘Rampaging crowd in Cyberspace opposite of Mark Zuckerberg’<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

*Regrets: ‘I’m sure Facebook owner will be mortified how Nigerians fouled his platform’<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"bayo-onanuga-1\"<\/a>BY BAYO ONANUGA, MD, News Agency of Nigeria<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

LYNCH-MOB, cyber-hyenas, cyber-vandals, character assassins: this is the motley crowd that has seized Nigeria’s social media space, either on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. It is a mob and functions like any other mob, pouncing on targets, remorselessly, twisting your words to achieve a preconceived end.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nThe rampaging crowd in cyberspace is the opposite of what Mark Zuckerberg and co have in mind in creating communication networks to link friends or people with common interests.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nJudging by my experience in the last 72 hours, I am no longer surprised why many decent people either closed their accounts on the various platforms or have become inactive.
\nNo sane, decent person can truly condone the vicious band of assassins always on the prowl, looking for preys to desecrate and mutilate, all because the victims’ viewpoint does not tally with their jaundiced position.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nI am sure that Zuckerberg will be mortified about how Nigerians have fouled his platform and Twitter. They are now nests of uncouth, ill-mannered, hate-filled Nigerians.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\nFellow Nigerians, we cannot all think one-way. We cannot all think alike. I have the inalienable right to have a different idea from yours. And that in civilised societies does not call for the unbridled umbrage that my posts have attracted and the unwarranted attacks against my child. Good morning!.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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The Mob of Social Media…Cyber-hyenas, Cyber-vandals, Character assassins Invade Internet’ * Lament: ‘Rampaging crowd in Cyberspace opposite of Mark Zuckerberg’ *Regrets: ‘I’m sure Facebook owner will be mortified how Nigerians fouled his platform’   BY BAYO ONANUGA, MD, News Agency of Nigeria LYNCH-MOB, cyber-hyenas, cyber-vandals, character assassins: this is the motley crowd that has seized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}