Ever since I have been active on the Internet world, it's in the last 5 years that I have noticed a sudden increase in the trend of social experiments on the internet specially on the Youtube.
It makes me wonder is it because nowadays Internet is available to everyone easily and which is because now we can access internet through our ever new technology mobile phones.
I think I answered my own question. While I see some social experiments in which the experimenters (!) try inciting a reaction from the common people, in others I notice where the "youtuber" takes up a challenge on himself/herself to see how many people of opposite sex he/she can kiss.
And this is not the most astonishing part, the suprising thing is these social experiment videos are very popular among the masses and get views upto 1 million or more which inspires others to do such experiments too.
The thing which is not exactly comprehensible is that why do people enjoy watching people's reaction to certain situations. For example, in one of such videos, they showed an abusive husband (actor) and his wife (also an actress) fighting in a restaurant and somebody was recording how other people at the restaurant would react to such a situation. A few people tried helping the victim lady while others minded their own business.
We, as sentient beings are a curious species. Such videos which stir the emotions are viewed by a considerable number of the people online. Even though the only thing we get to know from it is that how other people would react to a certain situation. But I'm supposing in this way we also try being in the shoes of the people who witness such incidents. In our own mind we decide how we would have reacted.
But can we say that such social experiments really portray how we are as a society? The good and bad we see in the people in such videos?
Would such experiments help the viewers take the right action on being faced with the real situation?
But at least some make us think. May be for a minute, an hour or a day but they do.
While on one hand some make us think the other experiment make us think what the society is upto?
Playing with people's emotions just for the sake of entertainment of viewers?
Where is the fine line? Who decides it?
It makes me wonder is it because nowadays Internet is available to everyone easily and which is because now we can access internet through our ever new technology mobile phones.
I think I answered my own question. While I see some social experiments in which the experimenters (!) try inciting a reaction from the common people, in others I notice where the "youtuber" takes up a challenge on himself/herself to see how many people of opposite sex he/she can kiss.
And this is not the most astonishing part, the suprising thing is these social experiment videos are very popular among the masses and get views upto 1 million or more which inspires others to do such experiments too.
The thing which is not exactly comprehensible is that why do people enjoy watching people's reaction to certain situations. For example, in one of such videos, they showed an abusive husband (actor) and his wife (also an actress) fighting in a restaurant and somebody was recording how other people at the restaurant would react to such a situation. A few people tried helping the victim lady while others minded their own business.
We, as sentient beings are a curious species. Such videos which stir the emotions are viewed by a considerable number of the people online. Even though the only thing we get to know from it is that how other people would react to a certain situation. But I'm supposing in this way we also try being in the shoes of the people who witness such incidents. In our own mind we decide how we would have reacted.
But can we say that such social experiments really portray how we are as a society? The good and bad we see in the people in such videos?
Would such experiments help the viewers take the right action on being faced with the real situation?
But at least some make us think. May be for a minute, an hour or a day but they do.
While on one hand some make us think the other experiment make us think what the society is upto?
Playing with people's emotions just for the sake of entertainment of viewers?
Where is the fine line? Who decides it?
No comments:
Post a Comment