REVIEW: CYBER BALKANISATION: DISTRACTION TO THE ESSENCE OF 1 MALAYSIA

Dr. Rahmat Ghazali

When I used to turn on the blog I’m attracted to an article written by Dr. Rahmat on Suara Murba.blogspot. According to his article, the Cyber Balkanisation: distraction to the essence to 1Malaysia. In opening of the article, He was tried to explain to us how the internet useful in human daily routine. According to Sustain (2001), Internet phenomenon that caused userrs to be segregated and isolated and gradually formed their own like-minded colonies. This sentence, may make we realize on how the using of internet are very dangerous and sometimes user become addict and realize the using of internet are so important to them.


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What blogger were trying to say is, how the Internets are very powerful sometimes may change human behavior and characteristics. According to the article, this change towards internet user are very harmful because it may influence user especially in the way of thinking and human perceptions. If this symptom is not being weir, it may reduce the productiveness of user in being a positive and intellectual user. When we refer back to blogger opinion  "through such character, they hold the tendencies of being hostilled to others who do not agree with them". Based on this sentence, sometimes the power of internet may hold the perspective of the user.

Wikipedia is one of unethical references

This behavior may cause the bad impact on user, what can we based on example is if we used the internet to find any matter they may depends on the Google fully percent without filter it. Blogger use a good example to us to make a citation such as Pele a Brazil legendary footballer. His opinion is when we talk about Pele in Google mostly about 1001(as an example) story will appear and also about his girlfriend. His opinion is also reasonable because this found story will explain any stories that will regarding to Pele and it was not including to unfiltered story about him. The other example, the using of Wikipedia as the citation is totally not allowable because the defamation or libel on Wikipedia sometimes may be used in spreads the info. The weaknesses of Wikipedia are everybody may or allowed to impress their opinion and editing the article on Wikipedia. The using of Wikipedia nowadays is widely even though user may realize when they use the internet it may harm to them back.

This opinion may be supported by blogger on his sentence, “..internet technology that allows user to customize, filter and select their needs and wants.” The using of wikipedia nowadays is quite worrying because it may harm user with the wrong or inaccurate of the information. The other example we may use is blog that were used to condemn the current of government especially in Malaysia politic. I was held on Dr. Rahmat talk and I get interesting in his speech, “God dislike to people are always complaining and did not mentioned thanks to Him”.

As a conclusion, as a good citizen it is better and good if we use the internet as a lesson to gain a new experience and not to gain a harmless. Sometimes we didn't realize the cyber nowadays are distraction to user to gain a knowledge and there is no other hope by blogger except to citizen being a rational user when use the cyber media.