<p>With the advent of technology, showing one’s support to any cause is just a click away. It is more of a fanciful trend to support anything and everything on the internet, rather than understanding the significance of the issue. <br /><br /></p>.<p>In a country where conventional norms are hard to break, and one has to fight to choose her/his own life partner or where honour killing still exists, homosexuality continues to be a big taboo. But, with the legalisation of gay marriages in a country which is 13,000 km away, there was an immense flow of support to the US law by Indians on Facebook. <br /><br />They added a tint of rainbow colours to their already captivating profile pictures. <br /><br />Still, did everyone know its significance? Or was it just about following the US, which is not the first country to legalise gay marriages? A trend that is still persistant in social media, youngsters comment and share their opinions with ‘Metrolife’. <br /><br />A futile exercise<br />Arash, a BBM student of St Joseph’s College of Business Administration, feels that the trend on Facebook was pointless. <br /><br />He says, “It was really nice to wake up and see so many people changing their display pictures to rainbow colours. But, in the Indian scenario, this was just a trend, following the herd. People in India struggle to get married to the woman they love, let alone marrying a partner of the same sex. Hence I see the changing of display picture as pointless.”<br /><br />The herd mentality<br />Ashwini Agarwal, a BBM student of St Joseph’s College of Business Administration says. “I support gay rights. It is a person’s personal decision and opinion not to be interfered by others. But, supporting by tampering Facebook pictures does not really help. People put their pictures after a long selection. Why would they want to paint it just to show their support? We have a tendency to blindly follow the crowd. This isn’t a true representation of the number of people supporting gay marriages.”<br /><br />Pointless move<br />Saba Asad, a student of St Joseph’s College of Business Administration says, “It is bizarre that so many Facebook friends have put a translucent rainbow filter on their pictures. It would have been sensible to demand the legalisation of gay marriage in India, but this is just so pointless because the ‘#celebratepride’ is not going to change anything in the LGBT community in India. I feel that more than changing pictures, we should try to change the perception of our fellow Indians towards homosexuality.”<br /><br />Impressive impact<br />Madhulika Shome, a graduate of Mount Carmel College says, “In today’s world where social media can influence people to a large extent, this campaign did have a great impact. On seeing great support, people might choose to broaden their perspective and for India, this was a good channel to extend our support and respect the choice of others.”<br /><br />Raising concerns<br />Jude Jacob, a student of St Joseph’s College of Business Management, says, “I do not think it is right to support gay marriage but the way things are going forward, I do not think this can be helped. Nowadays, people are just waiting to raise an issue on social networking sites. Some have genuine concerns, but the others just want to create a hype or follow what others are doing.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>With the advent of technology, showing one’s support to any cause is just a click away. It is more of a fanciful trend to support anything and everything on the internet, rather than understanding the significance of the issue. <br /><br /></p>.<p>In a country where conventional norms are hard to break, and one has to fight to choose her/his own life partner or where honour killing still exists, homosexuality continues to be a big taboo. But, with the legalisation of gay marriages in a country which is 13,000 km away, there was an immense flow of support to the US law by Indians on Facebook. <br /><br />They added a tint of rainbow colours to their already captivating profile pictures. <br /><br />Still, did everyone know its significance? Or was it just about following the US, which is not the first country to legalise gay marriages? A trend that is still persistant in social media, youngsters comment and share their opinions with ‘Metrolife’. <br /><br />A futile exercise<br />Arash, a BBM student of St Joseph’s College of Business Administration, feels that the trend on Facebook was pointless. <br /><br />He says, “It was really nice to wake up and see so many people changing their display pictures to rainbow colours. But, in the Indian scenario, this was just a trend, following the herd. People in India struggle to get married to the woman they love, let alone marrying a partner of the same sex. Hence I see the changing of display picture as pointless.”<br /><br />The herd mentality<br />Ashwini Agarwal, a BBM student of St Joseph’s College of Business Administration says. “I support gay rights. It is a person’s personal decision and opinion not to be interfered by others. But, supporting by tampering Facebook pictures does not really help. People put their pictures after a long selection. Why would they want to paint it just to show their support? We have a tendency to blindly follow the crowd. This isn’t a true representation of the number of people supporting gay marriages.”<br /><br />Pointless move<br />Saba Asad, a student of St Joseph’s College of Business Administration says, “It is bizarre that so many Facebook friends have put a translucent rainbow filter on their pictures. It would have been sensible to demand the legalisation of gay marriage in India, but this is just so pointless because the ‘#celebratepride’ is not going to change anything in the LGBT community in India. I feel that more than changing pictures, we should try to change the perception of our fellow Indians towards homosexuality.”<br /><br />Impressive impact<br />Madhulika Shome, a graduate of Mount Carmel College says, “In today’s world where social media can influence people to a large extent, this campaign did have a great impact. On seeing great support, people might choose to broaden their perspective and for India, this was a good channel to extend our support and respect the choice of others.”<br /><br />Raising concerns<br />Jude Jacob, a student of St Joseph’s College of Business Management, says, “I do not think it is right to support gay marriage but the way things are going forward, I do not think this can be helped. Nowadays, people are just waiting to raise an issue on social networking sites. Some have genuine concerns, but the others just want to create a hype or follow what others are doing.”<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
