Blindly trusting the social media

I tend to agree with those who believe that if there is something we perpetuated and it makes no sense at all, then it is pranks and practical jokes disguised under the name “April’s Fool.”
Although started as harmless joke, it is now “celebrated” at a much larger scale thanks to the power of the Internet.
It is the day when every piece of news is subjected to scrutiny, and every ad should better be scrutinized, it could be nothing but a joke.
In other words, it is the only day in the year in which individuals find it fine to lie, and companies to deceive their customers.
And in the days of social media, nothing could be easier. The biggest practical joke ever played this year was orchestrated by none other than YouTube and their newly introduced service “Snoopavision.”
In a well-crafted, corporate like video, YouTube spared no efforts to show how Snoop Dogg, the American artist, has participated in developing a new feature that should be part of any video played on YouTube.
According to the video, the service would launch once you press the Snoop Dogg icon under any video to instantly watch it in a Snoopavision, a 360- degrees video experience in which the US artist would share the video experience with the viewer in the realm of virtual reality.
Despite the professional looking video YouTube made, you would still be able to tell that there is something fishy about it, especially when you see Snoop Dogg standing in front of a whiteboard trying to solve some advanced mathematical equations, or when the launch date of the ser›vice appears to be in 2043! Nevertheless, some people fell right into the trap.
“Snoopavision is honestly one of the best things that happened to YouTube in ages,” someone tweeted as reported by the BBC.
If there is anything we should be learning out of all of this is to never trust anything on social media without verification. April or not, you better work hard not to be fooled.
The funny thing is that when Instagram was down on the first day of April, people believed that it was nothing but a tasteless April’s Fool joke, Instagram, up to the moment of writing this article, offered no explanation for the incident.