Jamaican Till I Die!

A friend of mine in Brooklyn, NY installed an application on his phone called a "Citizen App". This application sends out notifications about what is happening in his zip code. He said after installing it, he now has a better understand of how constant bombardment of  negative news can affect ones perception. The application was installed at 9:00 am and by 12:00 noon, there were 2 car crashes, 6 murders, a bank robbery and 2 women fighting on 8th Ave. Reports of shot fired. A report of a person with a gun and one person struck by jeep, more shots fired, Man shot on E 18th and Church Ave and building on fire, Man and woman shot.  Ignorance is Bliss , because he was very comfortable and felt secure in his zip code before he got the Citizen App but now he was not so sure.   In Jamaica, we prioritize reporting bad negative news, we are addicted to it and love to circulate it. In Jamaica bad news comes fast, furious, and gruesome then goes viral on social media. If anyt...

An accident on Hope Road could be livestreamed, disseminated by orbiting satellites to every corner of the globe in seconds. A Jamaican living in Germany or Australia now has intimate, real-time knowledge of everything happening in Jamaica. Shown live and direct on smart devices over the would wide web. Jamaicans has fallen in love with smart phone technology and Social media. It is the first thing they reach for when anything out of the ordinary happens. Platforms from Porn hub, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook to Instagram are filled with Jamaican contents. Most Jamaicans would not reach for their phones to livestream or even record happy moments, such moments are not regarded as sharable. The contents that are mostly shared on Social Media must be off the highest shock value to generate the right amount attention and likes. There are lots of Jamaican sex videos on various sex sites, with death and destruction everywhere else, the more gruesome the better. The people taking the pictures an...