Social media has its way of inadvertently exposing the various facets of human hypocrisy. A very close observer of humans, nature and human nature, I have encountered many such glaring examples too conspicuous to be ignored.
If a person behaves with you in a certain way in private, but keeps aloof from you on social media, he or she is most likely double crossing you - could be very well stabbing you on your back. Because, that person is afraid he may get exposed if he appears friendly with you on a public forum like social media. It puts him in a tight spot, as on your back he screws you on regular basis in front of the same people, who being observant on social media could end up having wrong impression of him.
As we say in Odia - BAARA BARSA RA TAPASYA SUKHUA PODA RE JIBA, transliterated "12 years of meditation will be wasted on Barbecued Smoked fish", simply put it means an image succinctly cultivated for long can be ruined by fluke of a mistake. Facebook is like a mirror which carries our virtual image, yet retains the virtues of the object.
Sometime the reverse happens. A friend X wastes no time indulging in the character assassination of another friend Y in a closed Whatsapp forum. But come Y's birthday, Mr. X leaves no stones unturned in wishing his so called bette noire writing a heartfelt birthday essay on Facebook, accompanied with odes, paens of praises, balloons and what not !
It is another case of what I call the classic "Ball licking syndrome". Screw the person behind his back, but lick his balls as he turns around and faces you. A good number of such folks were always there in real life, now they have migrated to the virual world of social media keeping their reality intact.
It reminds me of my erudite cousin works at a very senior level of Civil Services in India. In his long stint of 30 plus years of service in his state cadre he has come across different persons and personalities - from all kinds of low lives to politicians at the highest echelon (it's another matter there is hardly any difference between low lives and higher placed politicians). During a tete a tete when I casually mentioned to him that Napoleon once said the English are a nation of Shopkeepers, he just chuckled and confided to me - "We are a nation of all kinds of Hypocrites". Hypocrites galore - the usual disclaimers apply.
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