Are we becoming slaves of smart technologies?
“This is a fast-moving world”, the phrase has become a cliché nowadays. With shortening attention span and media reflecting a perspective of better life with fantasizing photos of picturesque locations, good food to dine in, best places to go this vacation, mates having fun, it is like the other lane always moves faster than yours.
Seriously, social and digital media are making us feel lower in self-worth, insecure about the future and letting us compare with others. Which is not right, right?
Incessant streaming on digital platforms: Youtube, Netflix, and other entertainment channels are supposed to keep you engaged, grab your focus and keeps you in hibernating mode. You being submitted to so-called enjoyment takes away a lot of time from you. (All I want is your time..says your Smartphone to you)
However, one more major issue lies in this context, the person sitting next to you. It is most likely that when one person takes out his phone, the other also does the same. But is it the way we communicate?
There was a time when kids, young adults, even women used to gather at commonplace to have some conversation. Nowadays, who the hell has time? Everyone is busy in scrolling their shit. The gardens are occupied by regular senior citizens and each house by fluffy kids sitting with a phone, watching random suggestive content, the whole evening, in the name of binge-watching!
Adults, nowadays, are most commonly addicted to mobiles. Their hands constantly goes towards the phone. Checking phone screens multiple times, even if there are no notifications. What is the need for that? Can’t we have a good time conversing with the one present at the moment? Can we not keep these electronic devices aside for longer spans? The question lies: Who is the slave of whom? Certainly, You know the answer.
Humans communicate to share their feelings. By sharing thoughts, emotions, a bond between the people strengthens. That bond somewhere is weakening nowadays.
One might be happy to share a funny incident or a tragedy that happened recently. Your kid might have come up to share his achievement at the school, but your focus is lost in random videos. You are just nodding your head and humming the response.
Are we humans supposed to be like this? Are we such unwise to dumb ourselves?.
I hope that day doesn’t come, when someone close to you is fallen sick and needs your attention out there and you are busy texting someone far away, an occasional friend who made you complete 1000 likes on your social media platform.
Make sure you don’t fall into this category. Give the media a limited time. take time for yourself and the one near you, even if they fall in the above category. Because wise are you, aren’t you?
Sophisticated Minimalist 