Facebook is supposed to be the place where we can pretend to be everything we really are not… to the friends we really don’t have. A lot of people think of social media as a waste of time, addictive and actually damaging. Clearly, this Indian-American person thinks of social media including Facebook as a waste of time. Maneesh Sethi hired someone to slap him every time he accessed his Facebook and even Elon Musk approved! Turns there is also a gadget that does something similar.
So this guy called Maneesh Sethi hired a woman to slap him each time he used Facebook. This apparently resulted in a ‘massive productivity increase’. It’s a little like that Deewar-themed Facebook meme. Amitabh Bachchan says mere paas Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram etc. hai. Tumhare paas kya hai! And Shashi Kapoor replies mere paas kaam hai!
It is true that each generation has its own entertainment/time-wasting methodology and social media app of choice. For instance, there was TikTok until it was banned in India.
It is a good thing that someone is trying to waste less time on social media – but slapping? Violence is a bit extreme, no?
Getting paid to slap someone – now there’s a job some of us may enjoy! Some commentators even volunteered for the job.
Some thought it was all a little pointless.
A job as a slapper isn't very productive, pointed out many of the tweeple. While one person may become more productive, the slapper is far less productive so isn't this a net loss in productivity?
Someone pointed out that by spending time on Twitter reading about and commenting on someone slapping someone else, a lot of productive time was being wasted anyway.
Elon Musk seemed to approve – the two fire emojis seem to indicate that there’s at least one billionaire who thinks this is a lit idea.
Maneesh Sethi, the guy who supposedly paid someone to slap him each time he opened Facebook is the creator of a device called the Pavlok habit-training wristband. This wearable gadget is supposed to help people break bad habits by delivering a small shock. It can help break bad habits such as smoking and nailbiting as well, by detecting hand movements to the mouth. So perhaps Sethi didn’t really employ a slapper; maybe this is just a metaphor for his product; for how we should all be wasting less time on social media?
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