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August 21, 2012 | 298 notes

Try to imagine the online behaviours that people consider humorously objectionable (the humblebrag, the promo, the retweeting of compliments and “Follow Friday” recommendations) enacted in real life. Imagine telling friends and strangers that someone thinks you’re brilliant, or that you’re about to reach a certain number of followers and would like to thank them all, or repeating every compliment on a work you have produced with a straight face. It is simply the sign of a “weak and disturbed personality”, as Talal Thaqafi, a psychologist who backed up the fatwa with his medical opinion, declared. Wincingly close to the bone, he also went on to say that those who indulged in such behaviour “suffer from an internal void, and by increasing amounts of followers, he or she satisfies such a void, and draws attention to him or herself”. Nesrine Malik on the Saudi cleric who declared a fatwa on buying Twitter followers

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