“You don’t have to be rude, you know?”

               I check my facebook and twitter accounts almost every day and I bet students like me even kids raging from 8 years old and up do the same. And from what I've seen in our society these kids and students are highly vulnerable to the influence of our social media celebrities.  But what bothers me is that these celebrities do not care on how they sway these minors on certain issues and acts. 

             When the last time I did check my facebook account, the photo of Carlos Celdran with a sign board of vulgar words about the issue of the Philam Life Theater being renovated was all over my news feed. I think this isn't new to his followers or even to the new media. The first time I heard Carlos Celdran name was because on his blasphemous act with his Damaso Stunt on bashing the Catholic Church. I stand for everyone’s freedom of expression and new media is exactly that but there is always a thin line between voicing out you what you believe in and being boorish on certain issues. It saddens me that influential people can do such things, and what happened to our new public sphere being the land of intelligent discussion? I think Carlos Celdran must be aware of how many followers he has and how he influences each one of them. What if minors mimic his acts, thinking that it is okay because he is only being verbal on how he feels on certain issue?

           You don’t have to be rude and do absurd things to persuade or move people, why not show us your arguments and facts? We should all figure out or understand the issues first and don’t feed us with dim-witted acts.