An Open Letter to Twitter Trolls

It is very easy to try to force your opinion laced with cuss words down other people’s throats while hiding behind the tri-color or your favourite politician’s picture. You are insulting both the tricolor and the one you consider God. Being anonymous is easy. To me, it means that you want to say things which you are ashamed of owning. Twitter Trolls

Just because I don’t agree with your definition of things doesn’t mean I don’t have the right to voice my opinion. There’s more than enough being said about Free Speech and if you have the right to your favourite cuss words, so do I, inspite of being a woman. Can’t digest that?  Twitter Trolls

Shaming women who have an opinion is such a passe. Really. It doesn’t affect us anymore, so I thought that maybe I’ll let you know that it’s not working. So, it’s time to try something new. Go, think. Oh wait, do you even possess the rationality or the ability to think? Well, I have my doubts. Twitter Trolls

Tagging your friends to collectively get on to someone is an age old technique. But don’t you know that this is not a physical war where one person can’t deal with ten at the same time. Come with all your might, it doesn’t even take a second to block you morons. Twitter Trolls

One of you threatened a journalist of gang-rape via a Tweet. Do you know you owned up the crime even before committing it? Even if you were just threatening her, do you know that there is something called cyber crime or are you the son of a politician and have immense faith in Indian judiciary? Twitter Trolls

I was kind of shocked to know that my opinion matters so much to you. Or is it that you can’t stand a strong opinionated woman because her existence is against your definition of pious Indian culture? Tell Tell. 

Well, since the past few days I have developed an ability to judge a troll by the display picture or the lack of it. Yes, I am ahead of your entire community in this race. Just wanted to let you know. Deal with it. By the way, have you heard of the theory of adaptation and survival of the fittest? Well, nevermind.

If I had the intention of debating it out, I would have chosen to do it on Facebook. Really. The fact that I choose to let it out in as less than 140 characters is not just a random co-incidence. Jaanam Samjha Karo 😉

It is beyond me that you have all the free time in the world to start random debates with people you know nothing about,without revealing your identities. If I had that luxury, I would have taken a train to an unknown far away destination, read a book, watched FRIENDS yet again, learnt a new language or slept the day off. But you choose to spend such precious time on the likes of me. We must be really really important to you in that case.

Whatever that is troubling you won’t last forever. Nothing does. Trolling is the new moral-policing and it ain’t gonna take you anywhere. So, face your demons and accept that you can’t change the opinions of a random stranger by a tweet. So, better use that energy in something that has a chance of yielding a result. Just saying.

Signing off,

Yet Another Twitter User.

P.S. I pity the people you know you for real. I really do. The fact that they have no other option but to deal with you is karma getting back at them.