Imagine telling your family you will be home soon. Not with the government anymore.A man called Adolf Hitler stood in a beer bar in Berlin, ranting about the poor shape of the German economy, the unemployment, the huge war indemnity debt and the crushed German pride.With nothing to do, nothing to look forward to, no hope for the future, lots of pent up anger, suddenly these people have a purpose. Imagine begging for your life. Months later the same Hitler stood in the same bar.  Flash mobs take organising and a oneness of purpose, however devious it be. But, don’t rush to the conclusion that this maturity is not available to the vernacular, Hindi-speaking communities. But, that is a question for another time. Most of the people didn’t pay attention to him. The central government has directed the states and union territories to take action to prevent incidents of mob lynching fuelled by rumours of child lifting circulating on social media. Imagine being descended upon by a crowd of people baying for your blood.Cut to Germany 1936. He offered The Final Solution. After all, it’s interest cannot only be in making money from it’s rapidly growing user base. What it did to Germany, indeed the whole world is there to see. Some prefer to play blind. Because you have become victim of a mindless lynch mob. Do you see similarities? Most of us do. WhatsApp said that it can only prevent spam messages. They love to be the first conveyors of news, the more volatile the gossip and the story, the better. The promise of the next big one keeps the fire going.Imagine lying ripped apart, slashed, broken, bleeding, knowing you will never see your loved ones, your kids, your parents, your family, ever again.Why did the people go and kill the couple in Tamil Nadu or the techie in Bangalore?  Ridden and burdened by poverty, hopelessness, frustration, unconnected people went and killed unknown people. And that the Jew needed to be eliminated. But if you find that angry electorate an enemy to direct their negative energy upon, there is gratification and release. Imagine being torn apart by your own countrymen.

The unemployed and the under-employed sit and twiddle thumbs all day. A dangerous pattern has been seen. Since it cannot see the content of the messages, which are private, it cannot block users. They provide instant gratification. Too little too late, one might say. Crowds. Flash mobs. The rich and the poor, the urban folk and those rural, the old and the young, all love to gossip and talk. A very powerful instant networking tool has come into the hands of people who are not responsible and mature enough to use it. fh square co limited As Indians we may perhaps, collectively lack this maturity.Countless people have died at the hands of such rumour fuelled mobs.  The danger is when WhatsApp leads to physical networking. Imagine never making it. Crafty politicians are harvesting this when they should be working on alleviating this scourge. The rest is rotten history. To wrest our country back. And everyone engages in it regardless of culture, nationality or station in life. Who has perpetuated this mood in the country?  The time is now. Mindless forwards and repeatedly too, begin to stir the winds dangerously. The facility of blocking abusers of the platform is only based on the reports of users. His discontentment fed and fired by these social networking tools, resulting in acute violence, as soon as the opportunity is created.An angry electorate is not a good thing. One that heard a rumour on WhatsApp. Flash mobs. Imagine. This is what is happening to India. This yields to outbursts of violence, much like the venting holes near volcanic pressure zones. They have nothing to do and are trigger happy, willing to direct their anger at the closest target. He is angry at ‘other’ communities, at those who are better off, the list is long. Crowds. The danger is when WhatsApp leads to physical networking. Imagine wondering why. Rumours maybe. When educated people, rich people, successful people also press ‘send’ on their WhatsApps, they endorse the venomous nonsense they are spreading. This time he said that the German problem was nothing else but the greedy profiteering Jew. Most of the rumours are harmless and like viruses they die out