"Balkanization"

          Words are the most powerful medium we used every day. We talk to our friends, neighbors, co-workers, and others every day since the start of one’s daily routine. In facts we could not stop talking about everything unless we are dead. However human biggest mistake are saying words that hurt other people, downgrading other people, and saying words that destroying other people reputation.

            Today’s, with the advance technology we are able to directly commenting on certain issues without any obstacles. In the World Wide Web everything is move a second faster than a light, so it seem. A person comment is also read by a million people. When a million people reading your comment and replying the comment meaning your comment has influence on them. Thus, this is really important because when your comments influence others, it can change the behavior of that certain people. The respond can be negative or positive or it can be violent or neutral.

            The fast working sites for social networking are Facebook, Instagram, Keek.com and even You-tube. These are the platform for our people to expressing their emotions, attitude toward certain issues and decisions.  These platform actually a war zone for words applied by those people who so called fighting for reasons or freedom or for the right. However most of the commenter is not professional. They did not do any research at first to critique on the certain issues. It is norm actually when people giving critique without checking the hole first. This is also the reason why people are easily manipulated by some powerful person to dominate everything (power in politic, economy, and more).

            There are a lot of negative commentaries in the social networking. This commentaries trigger speculation and sense of hatred between people. For example, recently an issue about the usage of words Allah by non-Muslim in Malaysia triggering discomfort. This is issue has creating hatred towards the minority which is the Christian and no doubt it also vice-versa to Muslim community.

            A lot of bad words were thrown to each other between these two religions. Some political figure took this opportunity to get fame which is so-called fighter for freedom but in reality they just like a person put oil into the flame. When things like this happen, Cyber balkanization would happen. Cyber Balkanization is first introduced by Cass Sustein. Cyber Balkanization according to Dr.Rahmat Ghazali is where a media create a certain colony that is separated from the public and the colony shared the same interest.

            Cyber Balkanization can be positive and negative. As we can see today’s, a lot of secret group are created to condemned other institutional, people or even religion. In the group there would be negative words to use and this will lead to hatred toward to the people outside of the group.

            People should learned from the past, how hatred treat people and brought them to destruction. Think before you comment.