Facebook Fans of Anna, a Reality or Myth? Or Mere Money Game?

Nowadays one can see an invitation on Facebook - Suport Anna Hazare.

Open this event and it will show some figures of attending, not attending, may be attending as:

151,546 attending

14,778 maybe attending

20,565 not attending

(As per the time of writing this article)

The figures give as massive number as more than one lakh fifty one thousand attending.

Well working in a company that manages social media, these figures shocked me a bit.

Now check this data:

The creator of this group runs three more groups with following numbers of members:-

151

992

259

Do I need to say anything more?

For past four years we are working on various social medias. And it is very difficult to even make 1000 members of such groups, even if a person is popular and it takes months to reach 1000 figure.

The digital social media is not as fast as it looks and generating such a big number means, spending lakhs of rupees on Facebook campaigns, ads etc or perhaps corores.

So is mass of Anna a myth?

Who is fueling him with such a big money?

What is the need to make him a brand?

Is the money coming from capitalists or some political party?

The reality is that Anna neither has as big mass as projected, and such projection is cheating with people because it is not a genuine projection, rather a spamy collection of numbers using money power.

One thing one should understand that there are thousands of groups protesting at Jantar Mantar, Delhi every year but media covers only a few, less than 10 in a year.

If one would read Dr. BR Ambedkar's book "What Congress and Gandhi Have Done to the Untouchables," one can understand the false propaganda to claim leadership of masses, when such a number do not exist in reality.