We are living in a digitized world at present. Twenty first century has placed us in a world of click in which we can connect with people across the borders through a click, courtesy of internet. Such a connected world through digitization has given us a chance us to learn from each other’s experiences in how to cope with problems. The digitized world has not only connected us, but also increased our pool of choices to choose from in how to cope with problems; problems which we all share, no matter which part of the world we inhibit; problems which we exclusively face. In other words, internet and especially social media have turned us into a global village in which we are quite aware of which part of the world is battling with which kind of problem at present in whichever way. In this deeply connected world, common sense dictates that our exposure to the digitized world should have reinforced zeitgeist of the present age that is democracy; as through its platform, the ruled can demand in unison for what they believe in, and can make their rulers accountable if they budge away from their pledges. People should have almost overcome so far all the dodging problems that have been haunting them for a long time, and should have been more organized in their reply to about to be nagging problems in future; in simple words, human society’s outlook, at present, should have been more organized rather than divisive after its introduction to social media, but it is about face. This puts a question over the role social media about whether it reinforces democratic values in a society or robs a society of its democratic outlook. I would like to answer this question by keeping the scope of the article confined to Pakistan and analyzing the role of face book in defining trajectory of democracy in Pakistan. As a millennial, I consider myself quite lucky for getting such a Pakistan in birth which is democratically, if not fully but comparatively, quite stable than it used to be in its early years. Today’s Pakistani populace, a major chunk of which is youth which is considered to be its demographic dividend, is more politically vibrant and participatory; this claim can be substantiated by views of the youth on social media especially face book with respect to any political tumult taking place in our political landscape. Having such a huge chunk of electorate as hands-on, Pakistan should have so far turned into a stable democratic state working for the welfare of its people, but we see that, despite such an informed electorate about political events, Pakistan is still reeling from fledgling democracy. All the nagging problems in the likes of corruption, lack of good governance and extremism, that our state had been pitted against since independence, are still haunting it until this day with no clear cut strategy in place even in the face of deeply connected citizenry. This brings us to the question whether social media has really connected us, or if it has connected us, why so far have we not capitalized on it. Before I analyze role of social media in Pakistan, its role in critical manner has been very eloquently described by an Egyptian Google employee, Wael Ghonim, in his TED Talk entitled “Let’s design social media that drives social change.” For readers’ convenience, Ghonim, through an anonymous page on face book, helped launch the Tahrir Square revolution in early 2011 that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. In the TED talk, he shares how Egypt attained unity via face book and how quickly it dissipated. More interestingly, he shares his observations about role of social media in any society which when i went through, I became clear why Egypt failed in morphing itself into stable democracy after Arab spring, and, to a great extent, got an answer to the question of why in the face of deeply connected status quo because of social media, we, the citizenry in Pakistan, could not utilize it to our advantage so far. According to Ghonim, “today, our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations. It’s as if we agreed that we are here to talk at each other instead of talking with each other.” i think that the above conclusion applies to our case quite fittingly. Every time, we are jolted by an incident of national caliber, we vent our frustration on social media by aligning our profile photos with the theme of the incident which is good thing I think for it symbolically unites us for a while, moreover we should be thankful to social media as it has provided us an outlet for catharsis, but with it we have latched on to a new normal which does not let us to face our problems head on. Each time, we are thrown out of comfort zone by an incident, we feel satisfied by registering our post in the cacophony of social media and think that we have done our job. This is what we observed when 12/16 happened and almost all Pakistanis in order to show solidarity with the bereaved families and register their protest against the government changed their profile photos to black color, but then what followed; we all know. The same phenomenon is at play with the ongoing Panama crisis which I think will dissipate after making headlines for a few more months to come. Because of lack of critical discussions, all the problems that awake our citizenry from their slumber time and again, surface relentlessly. The case in point is extremism which has been still haunting us. The chorus that had been developed in unison by us, the citizens, post 12/16, has somewhere lost now and with it the issue has got off the spotlight. In the posts crazy world of social media, where day in day out we are bombarded with torrents of something new across the world, one thing is sure that temporary bandwagons can be set raising voice for the resolution of issues, but no bandwagon, because of lack of critical discussions, can sustain itself for a long period of time in the face of always-looking-for-something-new nature of social media. It will not be wrong to say that somehow we in our approach to deal with problems have started behaving like social media. Instead of dealing with the roots of the problem, we try to find a solution to our problems through face book posts in superficial manner. Moreover, our engagements through posts on social media in which we are more inclined to making judgments than discussions are proving to be a wedge for our connectivity. Through judgmental posts, we are reinforcing our biases, this is interesting because we can get followers for no matter what kind of naïve an idea is, and thus fuelling an epidemic of disconnect among us. Social media is an advent of the twenty first century. There is no denying the fact that it can reinforce democracy, which is the zeitgeist of the present age, in an unprecedented ways, by giving platform to people to unite and raise voice in unison. So far, we have seen glimpses of social media’s magic wand in the form of Arab spring, Occupy Wall Street to squares of Istanbul, Kiev and Hong Kong, but the connection it yields is devoid of anything substantial and long lasting in nature. Because of lack of critical discussions, sometimes it turns to be a double edged sword which if can unite, can also rip a society a part, as we saw in the case of Egypt. Moreover, in our case, it has turned out to be a diversion which does not let us to face reality head on. It is said that the only way to work through creepy circumstances is to walk through them which unfortunately we can hardly if we are connected through social media. Though social media should be credited for uniting us at many points, but we need to figure out how to stay with our problems and go for critical discussions if we are interested for democracy to flourish. The blogger is a graduate in Social Sciences from Government College University, Lahore. He can be reached at uinam39@gmail.com