Social Media is Killing the brains of young Ugandans.

   

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Recently Mr. Andrew Mwenda, "The Old Man Who Knows It All," posted the words below on his Facebook page! 

He wrote....

 "Social media has killed the brains of many young people. In the olden days, to publish an opinion you needed to convince editors with the intellectual rigor of your argument. So you had to back your argument with facts, tone your language and improve your writing style. 

With social media, anyone with an idea, however stupid and incoherent, however uninformed and ridiculous, however uncouth and insulting, can post it on social media and get their voice heard - if anyone hears them at all. 

While this may have "democratized" public discourse, it has also adulterated it. Just imagine if all you needed to get a PhD was to write 300 pages of whatever came to your mind. What would happen to academia? That is what has happened to public debate."

And so that is the motion for debate 

Has social media killed the brains of young  Ugandans! Clearly the answer is hell no! Social media has improved the brains of young Ugandans. It has exposed many of us to a world beyond our slams and villages. The fact that my cousin in Ssinda Village no longer needs these so called "independent" print media, mainly newspapers, to deliver him NEWS is quite awesome....

I would really like to remind him of the old days! The days before social media! Back in the print media golden ages. 

My avarage circle of friend here in Kampala make about 10.000 shillings a day. Judging by the size of their businesses most of them cannot spare a single shilling to buy a newspaper, but most can afford Internet bundles to have their smart phones buzzing....

So once upon a time....

.....🇺🇬🇺🇬 all opinions were published in  a packaged form of-propaganda, where the editor sold you their edited platforms of issues approved of course by the governments, in countries  like ours; freedom of press is an illusion like all other freedoms are here currently in Uganda.

These cash for trush "independent" publications carried all the days opions.

These editors and founding members of gaint newspapers were indeed and always after revenue and only please the reader here and there the way soda companies sells us sugar water for  

Sh 3000 a bottle we can make ourselves with a little, water, sugar and food-colour! 

These editors are now pissed off that their long term investinment, their cash for trush publications  are not enjoying that miginal profits they sought after, that's why they think that social media is killing our brains ...because social medi also eats all of their advertising revenue.....they are are no longer cashing in heavy on advertising because people can do so directly via social media ..more on that later....

I was a kid when I first fell in love with reading and writing. It could have been at my Nursery school down @ Kasubi Church of God Nursery, it could have been at my primary school, Green Valley Primary School or my secondary school in the village of Kabimbiri. 

But along the way, on these old narrow and dusty roads on top of hills in Kampala🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬 or back on those long narrow village roads of Ssinda, I sought  after printed words... 

For primary school I walked all over Kampala. I would walk for Kasubi, back when it was a surburb not a slam it is now....I would walk from Kasubi all the way to Green Valley Primary School in the center of the city. My school was opposite Kiseka Markert. 

On my walk to school. I would catch many adults onlooking onto new-paper stands, the same way many do now for TV news in my hood. 

In my hood, in fact I don't know many Ugandans that have TVs to watch the news or soccer, their favorite sports....As much I don't know many Ugandans that own cars or have simple plumbing in their houses. 

Most of us are simple slam people who only used print media materials to wipe our asses after taking a shit or packing our fried cassavas to school the next morning. 

Those were the old print days...

Today, most if not all my friends in Uganda have a smart phone. We also listen to radio. Many of us still can not afford a television set, to watch soccer we crowd ourselves to the nearest TV set in tens. But we have smart phones, and yes we all over social media. We share stories, pictures and events quicker than we did before. 

We are well aware of the whole picture and in fact we consume some good print media when we can afford to spare a shilling..

 Social media allows young people to post their opinions,  like I am doing here, without approval of an editor....it is raw, politicaliticly incorrect, intellectual rigor of MY ME  arguments not some editor dude who has a degree in marketing and a dick a size of a toothpick to decide for me what I can express or how to do so....it is my tone, my language and my writing style, however ....

"stupid and incoherent, however uninformed and ridiculous, however uncouth and insulting," it is mine/ours and we share it with our comrades.....

For many other reasons left out for further  in depth narration.... I am against this motion...I believe that' "The Old Man Who Knows It All," is wrong as usual. 

Andrew Mwenda is wrong because print media had many flaws. They got and still get many stories wrong. Reporters are paid to twist and spin the words of a story to fit the platform they are working for! I can go on and on! 

 So No! Social media is not killing the brains of young people! It is improving the skills of how to communicate! It's why some governments shut it down during critical moment! 

For God and My Country! 

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