For the "Likes" ...I unliked

Just read an article in the newspaper today. An insensitive guy visiting the zoo stood on a large tortoise and got his picture taken. As this pic was doing rounds on the so called very important "social networking sites" he was caught and he very casually stated to the police that he did it for "likes" on Facebook as though without the likes his bank balance would go down.

The picture may have posed serious questions on the security of the zoo and on the sincerity of the caregivers to the tortoise but is it really so important to stand on a meek docile tortoise for "likes"? Is ur self not capable enough to gather likes from your friends?

Would he have done the same thing with a tiger or a lion or a cheetah given a chance? Just because the tortoise appeared harmless?

The crocodile park at Chennai also houses tortoises. When I visited the park last time we were surprised to see the loving activity these tortoises which normally appear so quite were showing to their caregivers who had come to feed them. They were two foreign nationals who were may be doing some research on tortoises. We even heard their sounds.

Posting wired statuses, photos, selfies on SNSs has become so important that certain basic courtesy's are also forgotten. So what if here it was a speechless animal on the receiving end. Did the person even once put himself in the shoes of the tortoise? No. For him the "Likes" were more important.

Animals are part of the real world but in pursuits of some "likes" of the virtual world we forget our co inhabitants of the real world.

Technology may change and the virtual world may crumble and vanish but we will definitely need these animals to tell our children see these are turtles and those are tortoises.

I am not a PETA or cruelty against animals activist but his pic in the newspaper did not gather any "Likes" from my side. Only "unlike" I say

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For the "Likes" ...I unliked