Anything for more likes

A year ago, just as I was about rounding up my final year exam, something had happened to a course mate of mine that made it to the news, blog sites.

_{photo by Prateek Katyal}

You see at my school, the lecturers or exam supervisors always do this thing where towards the end of an exam, they threaten not to collect any more submissions, and whenever they do that, all of the students who haven't submitted yet would immediately rush towards the front of the class to submit their exam answer script to the lecturer. It's a way of making student submit their work quickly.

So on this faithful day, one of the supervisors had applied the same tactics and just as everyone were rushing to go submit, this guy felt it would be a good idea to climb on the chairs and desks in the exam hall to go submit because the crowd in front of him was much and he needed a shortcut to the front.

Unfortunately, just as he got on the desk, one of the ceiling fans had hit him hard on his head and he immediately started bleeding before being rushed to the school medical for treatment.

On his way to the medical, a lot of people had seen him bleeding out and for some weird reasons, they just assumed that someone must have done that to him during the exam probably because he refused to give that person some answer during the exam.

I'm a student of Electrical Electronic Engineering, a department well known to be violent in my school when they want to be because it's obviously dominated by guys, so maybe that was why that rumor was believable.

Surprisingly, we all had woken up the next day to find pictures of that student bleeding on multiple blog sites, all of them selling the same rumor stories that we had heard in the school. The whole thing got so popular back then that he (the injured guy) had to make a video explaining the entire situation because he didn't want to be known as the guy who refused to help someone during an exam.

This entire story just shows how easy it is for most of this sites to carry around fake news and rumors without even fact checking whatever it is they're feeding to the public. Unfortunately, not a lot of people know this and most people just eat up whatever they're being fed by the news.

Ever since I've known this, I get skeptical when I hear about certain things on the news because one can never be too sure if he's being told the truth or not, and sadly, we can't always find out the truth unless someone decides to come out and let us know, with proofs.

This is why I try not to bother myself too much about certain things I read online, especially on twitter or blog sites. As long as that thing doesn't affect me directly or my love ones, then I don't bother to find out of it's true or not.