Trend posting is trend posting. The Nas Daily episode “The Trend Trap” wasn’t wrong when it implied that a lot of people post a trending topic just for the heck of it — like posting the Amazon Rainforest disaster and forgetting about it 2 months after — highlighting that this was not just some mere opnion (like mine now), but based on actual data (then presenting a google trends chart).
“BUT!!! There is a BIG BUT!”
our high school principal once said
…but when you’re trend posting important matters such as safety and natural disasters or global warming, even when you don’t really pay attention to the actual issue and just pretend to be (like a hypocrite), the effort isn’t all in vain! This I believe so because no matter how small, chances are, you’re going to reach at least one person who truly, madly, and deeply cares about the situation. Even if it’s less than 1% of the entire population who saw that post, awareness is what has been strongly delivered. There will be that 1 person, or more, who will truly make a difference — no matter how small. It doesn’t need to be big. And sometimes, that one person can actually make a greater difference.
Yes, people won’t always extremely care. It’s been shown in data. It’s like natural disaster now, then a blockbuster movie a month or two right after. That’s just how the internet works. But it doesn’t mean that what was shared have all went down the drain. It has sent, at the very least, a subliminal message to everyone — that the earth is tearing itself apart. It’s the survival of the fittest. Humans vs cockroaches — who will last longer or forever.
And with that, some have started working on small ways, very tiny little ways to change — like, no more littering anywhere or when they start the use of reusable materials and things, people will pray and it’s not a bad thing, some will start planting trees and some would start discussing other related matters to their own circle of real-life social network because not everyone solely lives in the internet.
Not a lot of people will want to post about how they now start pocketing their rubbish until they get home or see a garbage can along the way. It’s the small things — they count! And it could’ve been inspired by one trending post about the environment.
Sabi nga ng Cocomelon (just like one of Cocomelon’s nursery rhymes), “sharing is caring”. So if you care, don’t stop the share. Trend posting is trend posting and it is what it is. But whether you have good intentions or just doing it for the heck of it, you’re still doing the world a favor.
In My Opinion 