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Are you skeptic enough to succeed?


How many times you have given second thoughts on decoding Social media forwarded message as truth. Do you seriously think that all the stuffs which you receive as a forwarded message is a truth? Most of you would have forwarded those fake content to hundreds. Do you seriously think that the company is going to give you something absolutely free by just forwarding a message to 10 people? Don’t tell that you haven’t done it because we all have done it once in a life or more. I too thought that I could win an IPhone by forwarding a message to 10 people and I was wrong. The most disgusting thing I saw on social media was, if I will not send that message to 10 people, then I will die. Seriously?
Technology advancement has made our life very easy, everybody knows that, but do we know that it has made us more vulnerable and an easy target. Our personal data is sold at cheap prices to firms. How do you think, how do they get your contact details? They obviously mean those callers who call you for Credit Cards, to sell products, to ask for fund and to ask for your bank details to rob you under your nose.  
One thing I have learned in all these years since; I have been a part of Journalism industry is skepticism. Journalism taught me to be very skeptic about things, either you are going to buy a product in market or you are watching news. Every intellectual is aware of this fact that media channels have been doing yellow Journalism. And in doing so, sometimes they compromise with the authenticity of the news.
There have been many instances after a riot, when it was found that riot started because of the fake news which led to many deaths. It’s not about how much technologically advanced we have become, it’s about how we are using the tech. In a country like India where people are not skeptic and have become easy targets of political lobbied IT-Cell. A country where people easily believe whatever they get on social media and that’s why often called as emotional fools. We need to enlarge our skeptic mind and shouldn’t believe on the dangerous social media.
I am not telling here to be skeptic about family, friends or specially on better-half’s. But being skeptic about the government policies, news, content on social media, fake phone calls, business-frauds etc. can work wonders on staying away from danger and being robbed. We should become vigilant on anything which enters our hippocampus. This will help us succeed, take my word.  

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