HUN
DRED
FOOTS
FALL
OPINION
When uncompleted
footbridges become a
medium of transition.
I
by Okunupa Nana Kwasi
n recent times, I have been moni-
toring social affairs closely on social
media for reasons I don’t know yet.
Thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and
his tech pals, one does not have to
be at a place to know the events of
the day there. I could be at a spe-
cific location but be everywhere at
the same time – the omnipresence
feeling. I had seen a couple posts
online, well at first I thought “we are
going to get through this”. Frank - a
friend of mine began posting about the situa-
tion. I will ‘Like’ them - comment on them - or
even share them. Perhaps I believed in what he
was doing - or I just did because we are friends
- Hey, do not judge me, that is the life on social
media; I’m just being frank. But yes, as a Li-
bra and a liberal but sometimes conservative
(I don’t know but I love saying this a lot), I get
really sensitive to social issues and sometimes
it becomes really overwhelming for me – like
now, maybe. Still online, browsing through my
feeds; scrolling through hundreds of shared
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“
What start-
ed off as an
online cam-
paign #Fix-
OurFootBridgesNow
- maybe something
to get the attention
of government on a
situation took a dra-
matic turn”
contents from friends, I noticed Gilbert touch-
ing on the same subject. Well, I can understand
if Frank is doing it because I can say he is per-
haps being affected by the situation directly but
Gilbert? Well the thing is, Gilbert is a journal-
ist too therefore on a certain level you can also
understand why he is touching on the subject
but then again, I wondered what he has got to
do with it. The thing about Facebook these days
which I have observed is, the platform seems to
feed you with similar contents that you might