Here's 5 REASONS Online (Media) Protest Isn't Any Better!

It is safe to say that protests are inevitable in any society particularly when things are not going too well for majority of the citizens. It's understandable, and such protests are lawful too. Notably, online protests are well acknowledged in developed nations at effecting swift and reliable influence on constitutional decisions by government authorities. However with comparison to similar bigger nations like Nigeria, South Africa, there seem to be unstable struggle to achieving a united objective via social media platforms.

We have noticed some supposed 'influential' online activists spear-heading protests via facebook, twitter, google+; the likes of Seun Fakuade, Japheth Omojuwa, but they have all FAILED CONSIDERABLY to justify the high level of confidence remarked on them. Instead they (online activists) ironically prefer to lip-sing major protests in-order to get public sympathy. The New Media, of which the social media is an integral part, is a proven platform for effective real-time interactions that adequately project the needed impact in smaller communities as well as larger societies. And you might want to ask the question - why are we in thi part of the world not getting the desired results in online public protests? The last noticeable online protest on #NoToChildBride coordinated by Omojuwa and his allies could not even gather a quarter of the estimated 10,000votes in its barely 2weeks of campaign. Moving on, here are just 5 simple reasons why some major social media protests, specifically in Nigeria, aren't creating the needed yields: * Young people (followers) have consistently become gullible; * There's practically no desire for research and/or facts-checking before following such protests; * The decepive syndrome of More (twitter) Followers = Influential Personality; * Selfish interests of some online (social media) activists thus manipulating such protests; * Online activism is increasingly polarised by 'Opportunists' and not true 'Democrats'. There you have them. We hope we all can learn from these because we are stakeholders to a progressive society. Let us know what your perception is on the points highlighted. Feel free to drop your comments below.