Sri Lanka, June 3 -- The online flash mob is here to stay.

Without this ability to bring voices together organically or otherwise social currents of today would not be the same anymore. A Facebook post, a Tweet, an Instagram picture can galvanise and make for a flood of opinions - divergent, thought out, outright dumb and in all hues and shades, crashing into one another in one forum.

During the last few days Sri Lanka has seen this happen at least four times, the rescue and subsequent death of the black leopard, the reclaiming and subsequent erosion of part of the Mount Lavinia beach, the funeral procession of late Arumugam Thondaman and the new cricket stadium fiasco.

To gauge the impact, imagine if these four events were to take pla...