Social media
networks such as Facebook have provided a platform for us to freely express our
thoughts and ideas. We are in the age of enjoying freedom of expression and
it’s a right enshrined in the new constitution nevertheless some Facebook users
have begun misusing this freedom. I am particularly perturbed by the kind of
careless comments fellow Kenyans make on some Facebook pages especially during
this fragile and sensitive period as Kenya prepares for a general election in
2013.I have come across comments that if not censored will rip this country
apart along ethnic or political lines and most likely take us back to what
transpired in 2007/08 popularly referred to as Post-Election Violence. A
certain political party which has a page on Facebook claimed that there’s some
fraud taking place in the ongoing voter registration exercise. They claimed
that in some registration centers voters are not being issued with the slips and
that the slips are being bought in order to deregister people of a certain
political party .This sparked a chain of reckless comments, people lashing out
at each other. I wonder why people can spread such propaganda yet IEBC made it
clear that the only thing that will be required during the actual voting
exercise is the National ID card and not any slip or voters card. We should be
careful on what we comment on Facebook and please could administrators of pages
whose posts spark violent and careless comments be quick to remove or delete
such comments.
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