The world has turned into an infinite digital canvas today. Digits are not just digits anymore but they are the basic building blocks of the modern lifestyle. This is so because each and every participating member of the world is totally dependent on the digital media available.
We are used to the "normal" cackle of the alarm clock early in the morning, but not to the "weird" cackling of the cock. We are happy to carry a tablet with us to college rather than a whole bunch of books and papers. We are happy to see a slideshow of our photographs on the computer rather than go and develop them into hardcopies.
I guess no child born in the 21st century has ever “dialed” a phone or placed a coin in a pay telephone,walked to the television to change the channel, taken a road trip, without a DVD player in the vehicle, researched a topic using books alone, surfed the web using a dial up connection or known a world without the Internet. A child of three would know how to surf and children in school uniforms know how to blog and use the social networks.
In the 1990s, the internet and the mobile phone caused a huge stir in the digital world leading to many different inventions which were about to bring a tremendous change in the history of modern man. There was an alarming increase in the number of inventions, the various companies which came into existence. Steve jobs' apple brought out outstanding innovations like the iPod, iPhone and the iPad, with all others following suit. And what was seen was man panting for some more digitised, compact and simplified version of the previous invention.There's a fascinating trend among this upcoming generation of young consumers. As prices for technologies such as mobile phones and PCs continue to fall, these devices are now accessible to an expanding proportion of the pre-teen class.
On the other hand, The advent of social networking sites, starting from Orkut, myspace and then Mark zuckerberg's Facebook, it turned out that more and more people are hungry for virtual social interaction.
But it was always ignored what man would become when he would face all these new things in his life.
Today as we enter the 2nd decade of the 21st century, the sins of the past decade are here to haunt us like never before. Man was materialistic since the industrial revolution but he has turned a virtual being in this century. The social networking site has given the young and the old a new identity, one which would be their fantasy, their dream to become. Chatting turns out to be with the chattering of the keyboard, not with a person but with a photograph of them. People are more confident talking online rather than talking face-to-face with the person.
The blackberry messenger and whatsapp are the two most worshipped apps by any teenager. Young children as small as 10 years yearn for a cell phone to be able to ask their homework to their classmates. Through these apps, not only can we be in touch 24x7 but also we can send pictures as soon as we click them. Literally, all these inventions have brought the world close, really close! An elite school in Mumbai, has made it compulsory for all it's students to have an iPad to study. Now that's called a digitised generation, isn't it?
But if we see to the other side, we see that indeed the world is plunged in a pitch black darkness and surely the light from these digital gadgets is not going to save it.
The cause that people are losing their identities are our dear play toys, which we are clinging to so tightly. People don't have time from their playbooks and cell phones for their families and friends. So many scandals, so many controversies, and man has not yet learned his lesson. He is still walking on, far below to the deep end of the sea from where nobody would be able to save him.
Be it the Teens committing suicide online or a mother who updated her status while her baby was drowning in the bathtub, it had been a gruesome journey for these social networking sites. But they are still very much popular as they were before. We say today's youth is tomorrows future, but is it going to be possible if the youth is addicted to Facebook and blackberry messenger?
It's a question to ponder upon and act according to the right option. It's not possible to completely eradicate these evils but we surely can control it's deadly effects on us.
We are used to the "normal" cackle of the alarm clock early in the morning, but not to the "weird" cackling of the cock. We are happy to carry a tablet with us to college rather than a whole bunch of books and papers. We are happy to see a slideshow of our photographs on the computer rather than go and develop them into hardcopies.
I guess no child born in the 21st century has ever “dialed” a phone or placed a coin in a pay telephone,walked to the television to change the channel, taken a road trip, without a DVD player in the vehicle, researched a topic using books alone, surfed the web using a dial up connection or known a world without the Internet. A child of three would know how to surf and children in school uniforms know how to blog and use the social networks.
In the 1990s, the internet and the mobile phone caused a huge stir in the digital world leading to many different inventions which were about to bring a tremendous change in the history of modern man. There was an alarming increase in the number of inventions, the various companies which came into existence. Steve jobs' apple brought out outstanding innovations like the iPod, iPhone and the iPad, with all others following suit. And what was seen was man panting for some more digitised, compact and simplified version of the previous invention.There's a fascinating trend among this upcoming generation of young consumers. As prices for technologies such as mobile phones and PCs continue to fall, these devices are now accessible to an expanding proportion of the pre-teen class.
On the other hand, The advent of social networking sites, starting from Orkut, myspace and then Mark zuckerberg's Facebook, it turned out that more and more people are hungry for virtual social interaction.
But it was always ignored what man would become when he would face all these new things in his life. Today as we enter the 2nd decade of the 21st century, the sins of the past decade are here to haunt us like never before. Man was materialistic since the industrial revolution but he has turned a virtual being in this century. The social networking site has given the young and the old a new identity, one which would be their fantasy, their dream to become. Chatting turns out to be with the chattering of the keyboard, not with a person but with a photograph of them. People are more confident talking online rather than talking face-to-face with the person.
The blackberry messenger and whatsapp are the two most worshipped apps by any teenager. Young children as small as 10 years yearn for a cell phone to be able to ask their homework to their classmates. Through these apps, not only can we be in touch 24x7 but also we can send pictures as soon as we click them. Literally, all these inventions have brought the world close, really close! An elite school in Mumbai, has made it compulsory for all it's students to have an iPad to study. Now that's called a digitised generation, isn't it?
Be it the Teens committing suicide online or a mother who updated her status while her baby was drowning in the bathtub, it had been a gruesome journey for these social networking sites. But they are still very much popular as they were before. We say today's youth is tomorrows future, but is it going to be possible if the youth is addicted to Facebook and blackberry messenger?
It's a question to ponder upon and act according to the right option. It's not possible to completely eradicate these evils but we surely can control it's deadly effects on us.
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