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A Shot of Vanity

Social media shenanigans do learn nay to take seriously seldom do they add any value Distortion of reality a tool readily applied in an arena where aesthetics rule over brains and decorum #Cybertracks Vanity train.. Dec 2016

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Ravindra K Kapoor

Date: 1/5/2017 4:27:00 AM

You are absolutely right dear friend. More than ninety-five percent of social media users know only how to click a like but still often we find good things also. And these five percents are our hopes who contribute things on which we can ponder and think to amend our pride and prejudices. But this is how things are changing in this world today. Your Poem is a great reflection of that. Thank you once again for your kind words on my new Poem cum Song.A7 Love & best wishes...Ravindra K Kapoor

Lewis Nyaga
Date: 1/5/2017 4:57:00 AM

Thank you Ravindra,.. for those insightful comments and the 7. Yes social media can be used as a toll for positive progress and the growth of progressive thought, and there is no wishing away the relevance of social media in to days world.. //Almighty blessings in the new year

Darren White

Date: 12/9/2016 1:32:00 PM

Absolutely true. Where all medie manipulate truth, it is especially so with social media.

Lewis Nyaga
Date: 12/10/2016 1:02:00 AM

True.. thank you Darren for gracing this poem with your esteemed comments.. ;-)

Space Cadet

Date: 12/9/2016 2:58:00 AM

Interesting piece. I find that social media is a distorted arena that ultimately stimulates the lay reader to promote a fake story. Reading Hunter S Thompson is just as entertaining, so the reader is responsible for knowing what is real and what is fact. I guess the only difference is that HST was a great writer (and hilarious, to boot). I don't know if I'm on the same track here, but I dig the topic. -- Wesley C.

Lewis Nyaga
Date: 12/10/2016 1:01:00 AM

Thank you S.P.. social media is a tool which human beings subvert to advance their own agenda of vanity.. the love for likes, follows, and comments takes control,it thrives on the love for adoration and social validation.. But if used in the right way its a tool for positive change.. //Almighty Bless

Space Cadet
Date: 12/9/2016 8:36:00 AM

Lewis. I apologize. I'd like to recant my words above. I'm not certain what I wrote was either productive or necessarily true -- I am so out of touch with social media, I don't have the knowledge to make a blanket statement like that. BUT this poem makes me think, and I find that omitting punctuation makes this piece an even more challenging read -- in a good way. Thank you for sharing. -- Wesley C.