Share without care: New mantra of social networking

This sharing thing has been creating a nuisance, so much so that it often pricks you and you end up with 'Oh god why me? or 'I don't want to see this on my wall' or 'Oh please, grow up'. Earlier it use to take your conscience, will power, determination and an inner desire to share your things with others. It was an art of giving, where you felt pleasure in giving and the other end felt gratitude for receiving. Sharing your books, your clothes, your food, your happiness, your sorrows..It was wonderful. Sharing used to make you feel lighter, happier, merrier and thats why it used to be an art. Not everyone could have it, not everyone can share.

But now, sharing is just a click away. Now, it takes literally nothing to share in the virtual world of internet, facebooks and twitter. No clean conscience, no determination, even no brains. Every one is ready to share anything and everything without thinking twice. They share the gory pics, the cartoons, the great thoughts, the awesomes anything. Every time I open my account I have to see so many of my 'friends' sharing so many things and I wonder, do they actually feel good after that. While sharing is acceptable, when atleast you know what you are sharing and why? I don't mind witnessing someone's happy moments, it aches when you see gory, filthy images or texts of one issue or other mixed with half-baked logics or someone else's perception, deception  fanatics-thoughts, or even the pics of this and that god claiming bold enough that sharing it will bring luck and prosperity and what not. It sucks many folds more than those chain mails or million dollar lottery announcements.

Its OK that you shared, you may have felt that grace or pride for being the part of 'the giving', but what about the people at receiving end? what if I don't want to take what you shared? It will be too harsh to say that I don't like it or report abuse (since you are a 'friend' of course being in my friend list) and would be too modest to just overlook or ignore, because many of that shared items are full of hatred, misguiding the society without even checking the source if it even made any sense, what is the motto behind propagating it? Just because you got a free internet and you know how to click your mouse buttons doesn't give you enough reason to share your piece of mind. And more importantly Why should one share anything just like that? and How can one refuse to take it?

About a month ago, while surfing twitter I read a tweet from an eminent journalist who is a senior editor in a national daily, stating RIP to Morgan Freeman. It was shocking, suddenly his face, his movies, his scenes, the dialogues everything started revolving around, since I have always been his great admirer. I was about to retweet the tweet when luckily I thought to check over the internet for the news first and it turned out that it was the hoax. Rumors has been spread by some facebook or twitter lunatics. I cursed them and more than that I cursed him. Most of the times or nearly everytime I trusted his tweets, his opinions, he has been followed by thousands, then why didnt he even bother to check the source first. How can we trust the general public including me to act responsible when responsible people are doing so.