Is it all a scam then?
Yesterday I was "walking" on social media and I found a repost that caught my attention. And the best thing about reposts are the comments, let's agree. Now we are in a moment where the response is the hot topic: a profile seeks content from random people to go viral and followers start to respond and consequently fight defending their idealisms.
But what about the post that got me? So, in this repost a guy said that a woman discovered her boyfriend's betrayal because he sent her an emoji, an orange heart, while he always sent the red one. After reading several comments, including from people who thought the color of the heart had meaning, I discovered that it was because the boy had sent this orange heart to someone and when his girlfriend responded, it was the last emoji in the gallery and she sent it. So the girlfriend went after the story and found cheating. And look, it was all in just one post! With more than five thousand comments!
But the trick in this case is to entertain people with other people's content and keep them engaged in the discussion. It's gold these days! People started to normalize the coup. Of any kind. Of money, of theft, of betrayal, on social media. It is so common that it is no longer a taboo, on the contrary, it is the subject of discussion to the point where the victim takes the blame! The lines like "if I didn't have it on my cell phone, I would be busy and I wouldn't fall for any scam!". In the style of those attitudes like returning a wallet found on the street with money inside and getting too much credit for it, after all it should be normal, right?
I confess that these reposts of personal situations of betrayal get to me! Because I am shocked by the thinking minds involved in the scams that men and women organize. A radical maneuver in society to have a lover or simply cheat. And gone are the days when only celebrities and famous people made the news with their betrayals, today it is enough to be something shareable and interesting for the people that go online and go viral.
And how much are betrayals increasingly linked to scams? And in a positive way! In other words, it is legal to like, comment and share these skills and increasingly encourage betrayals and scams. Maybe because it became commonplace. Maybe because it's fun (of course, it's other people's lives and not ours!). Maybe because it really goes viral. The why is a little irrelevant. The truth is that we will still come across many scams and trickery out there. After all, these are problems that have always existed in society, but now there are ways to publicize them!
But what about the post that got me? So, in this repost a guy said that a woman discovered her boyfriend's betrayal because he sent her an emoji, an orange heart, while he always sent the red one. After reading several comments, including from people who thought the color of the heart had meaning, I discovered that it was because the boy had sent this orange heart to someone and when his girlfriend responded, it was the last emoji in the gallery and she sent it. So the girlfriend went after the story and found cheating. And look, it was all in just one post! With more than five thousand comments!
But the trick in this case is to entertain people with other people's content and keep them engaged in the discussion. It's gold these days! People started to normalize the coup. Of any kind. Of money, of theft, of betrayal, on social media. It is so common that it is no longer a taboo, on the contrary, it is the subject of discussion to the point where the victim takes the blame! The lines like "if I didn't have it on my cell phone, I would be busy and I wouldn't fall for any scam!". In the style of those attitudes like returning a wallet found on the street with money inside and getting too much credit for it, after all it should be normal, right?
I confess that these reposts of personal situations of betrayal get to me! Because I am shocked by the thinking minds involved in the scams that men and women organize. A radical maneuver in society to have a lover or simply cheat. And gone are the days when only celebrities and famous people made the news with their betrayals, today it is enough to be something shareable and interesting for the people that go online and go viral.
And how much are betrayals increasingly linked to scams? And in a positive way! In other words, it is legal to like, comment and share these skills and increasingly encourage betrayals and scams. Maybe because it became commonplace. Maybe because it's fun (of course, it's other people's lives and not ours!). Maybe because it really goes viral. The why is a little irrelevant. The truth is that we will still come across many scams and trickery out there. After all, these are problems that have always existed in society, but now there are ways to publicize them!
Author : Mariana Goulart
Posted in: 11/27/2023
Last modified: 03/06/2024
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