But seriously now, ENOUGH! These headlines and articles, radio stations make NO SENSE what so ever. The media, the parents and Patricia de lille seriously need to get a clue.

The articles states

“Olivier said although Hannelie’s case is “sensitive”, he is positive it’s connected to MXit, which he condemns as “evil”.” A quote by Desmond Olivier.

Everyone and their mother seems to want to get on the ‘MXit is evil’ bandwagon, this is fueled by sensationalist journalism from the main stream media.

I am going to clue you in on why this kind of reporting makes no sense.

MXit is a service, Like ANY other service. Just like SMS, Mobile Phone calls, the internet, Google and facebook. They are all just services provided by a range of companies.

Would headlines like these make sense for these other services?

• Teenage boy hooked on google addicted to porn
• Mobile Phone user missing

Yes? No?

Ok, Here’s another question to get you thinking.

If you give your kid a PC, with unrestricted internet access and he uses Google to find porn. Is Google to blame for indexing these sites?

Nobody in their right minds would claim that. The responsibility lies squarely on the parents and the kids. If you are not monitoring your kids internet usage you are to blame if they are exposed to things they should not be. If you are not monitoring your kids cell phone usage YOU as a parent are to blame if they contact or give their numbers out to the wrong people.

So what’s going on here? Deep down, most people find it difficult to accept they are flawed. It’s difficult to tell yourself ‘YES i made a mistake’. It’s easier to blame a SERVICE then to blame yourself but i believe when you really go to the roots the issue much deeper. Its merely a fact of parenting and control and yes its difficult to admit this BUT IT is the truth.

Maybe if we accept this fact then we can actually start tackling the real issue of parenting and education.

This post actually came about while i was researching another topic and happened to Google MXit. I found practically no business related articles on it.

We wonder why many South African start-ups do not make it internationally. We have a service that has been launched that WAS good once upon a time(thats the topic of another post) and the only value it offers to us is being a scape goat for our own parenting flaws.

We seriously need a paradigm shift in South Africa, stay tuned for something different.