as the act is fastbecoming fashionable among young ladies.
One of the objectives ladies who engage in this act seek toachieve is
to break into trending topics on the social service and ultimately
build a huge Twitter following and gain cheap popularity.
Ladies who have made this act a hobby employ hashtags to string
together these obscene pictures to get them easily noticeable by other
Twitter users. For instance, some of them use hashtags such as
#boobsmonday, #boobsfriday and post their unclad photographs.
Other girls equally interested are lured into posting their own unclad
pictures on the social site by employing the use of the hashtags for
the day — such as #boobstuesdayon a Tuesday, which make their unclad
pictures travel fast and go viral.
One of the typical Twitter female users of the social network who
engage in this act is one with the name, Pretty Osaro. Osaro posted
three unclad pictures of herself on May 15, each showing her in
different positions. On her handle she says, ''I wanna be famous,
doesn't matter how many guys…''
She went on to lament that her previous Twitter account was suspended
and lashed outat those who reported her via the Twitter Help Center
for posting offensive contents. ''My previous account was suspended,
if you don't like what I do kindly unfollow or f..k out of my
timeline,'' she says.
In the usual manner in which desperate girls seeking fame on social
media do, Osaro hasat one time or the other reached out to celebrities
whomake use of Twitter to retweether to the hundreds of thousands of
their fans.
The day Osaro posted her unclad pictures on the social service, she
tweeted the same picture to Nigerian music artistes — Wizkid and
Davidowith — a view to getting them retweet the pictures.
She has also sought the help of American socialite and TV personality,
Kim Kardashian who has over 17 million Twitter followers. Tweeting at
Kardashian, she says, "Am I not hotter than @Kimkardashian?
@KimKardashian, I love you so much please retweet me.''
Other Twitter users with the names Bayelsa Queen and Ha Royal
Sexcellency regularly trend on Twitter, posting theirunclad pictures.
Besides, thereis a unclad picture being credited to one Adefope
Temilola, which has been circulating on Twitter for over two months.
Here's another one:
A new media enthusiast, TunjiLardner, describes the development as a
"really bad behaviour'', adding that typical youthful aspirations are
now being amplified globally by social media. He adds that with the
current level of under-development inthe country, Nigerian youths —
both male and female, should redirect their youthful vigour to hold
political leaders accountable for their misdeeds with the new media
technologies.
He says, "These are invariably young and immature people grappling
with the need for popularity and acclaim from their peers. This is
just anothermanifestation of the ongoing breakdown of our social
orderand the loss of parental control and oversight of our digital
children with analog parents.''
Lardner who is the Executive Director, West Africa NGO Network, warns
that those engaged in the act risk the negative consequences and urges
them to move towards changing the content and quality of their online
discourse.
He says, "Everything lives forever on the Internet. Thosepictures
posted will be archived and someday retrieved, and can most certainly
come back to haunt you, perhaps when you are looking for a job or even
when you want to get married.''
"Those involved can start by changing the quality and contents of
their online discourse. Use these powerful technologies to interrogate
the political system, ask the tough questions, find the tough answers
and hold their leaders accountable for their misdeeds.''
Speaking on the ways of stemming the tide in the country, he observes
that it is difficult to legislate morality on a global and virtual
platform like the Internet. According to him, the responsibility for
the moral tone and content of youth participation in social media
still rests with society at large.
"Their engagement on these platforms and the quality of their
discourse is a direct reflection of the society's prevailing norms.
But there should be an understood codeof conduct that is widely
disseminated, spelling out the pitfalls of the dark side of social
media.
"Perhaps the traditional mediacan help evolve this standard, and there
is no need to reinvent the wheel. There is a considerable body of work
that deal with youth and the use of social media,'' he adds.
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