Reflective Essay: The Effective Use Of Social Media

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Seven years ago, a dear friend of mine got married to her handsome beau. The wedding was blissful and marked the happiest time of her life. Four weeks after she gave her virginity to her husband on their honeymoon - these girls are hard to find I tell you - a bus collided with her vehicle’s rear-end at the stoplight and she sustained calamitous injuries to her spine. Seven years forward, after multiple trips to the courthouse and after many days and nights of pain and temporary paralysis of her limbs, the matter before the courts remains unresolved and sprints into its eighth year. No justice yet. Just justice expensively delayed.

Last week, I watched a few seconds of a chilling video of a man cornered in a building while an angry mob hurled stones, planks and whatever they could get their hands on, at him. His last transgression on this earth was the alleged attempted robbery or robbery of a gas station in Westmoreland. After the first few seconds of the terrifying video, I never needed to see the conclusion, or have my social media timelines unwillingly bombarded with grisly pictures, or even read the sanitized reports in the local newspaper to confirm his pellucid and torturous end: DEAD. For many on my social media timeline, this was swift justice and the appropriate outcome. For others, nothing about it was just - just gruesome. …show more content…

Montague’s and Chuck’s predecessors, Peter Bunting, Mark Golding and several others before them, made similar decrees, but the monster still grew and Justice’s lady-like movements - in Jamaica land we love - continues to lag and sluggishly

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