Yesterday, I was sitting with my friends, upstairs in my living room and they wanted me to serve another cup of tea, I was logged in on Facebook and I saw my little sister online (downstairs) and asked her to make some tea.
Just before that I had asked my younger brother about his position in the house thru SMS (BTW I don’t live in 2000 yards home), so that I could ask him to fetch a jug of water. (I know that I am that mean as an elder brotherJ, but that’s not what I wanted to talk about).
That moment, suddenly, I got scared. What are we people doing? Are we drifting away from people we used to see? I don’t get to see my friends as often I used to see because of social networking sites and messengers? (And that frequency is ever decreasing).
All I am surrounded by is emotionless and lifeless machines, taking place of people who use to love and care.
Am I going to be Bruce Willis of the movie “Surrogates”? Lonely, lost in some virtual crap, waking up only when it’s too late???
Man, I was terrified by the feeling and could not sit any more. Jumped off the couch and rushed downstairs to see my family. Shared it with my friends and decided not to let this virtual world take control of our relationship.
I don’t know if you agree or not, but for God’s sake, just give it a thought. I don’t mean to say that these sites and messengers are all bad, but only think of not replacing it with warmth of a loving touch.
Take care of your family and friends and let them take care of you when you need them, before it’s too late.
it is Good to use but some times it goes to bad
Yeah! I am strongly agree with the writer. Actually we need to prioritize thing and keep everything in under control. It should be used purposefully. Thanks for sharing and hope you will keep continue sharing informative Read. Thanks – Tahir
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so true mr haris same here i was thinking it also
Again you came with wonderful bunches of words which divulge or reveal the importance of kith and kin and close mates. Thanks for making us realize that relations are quite important rather than machines…….
God bless you
Indeed in the new era of emerging technologies, where people are having the leverage of "Everything in a single plate", they are also feared to loose their staunch family/relations values. There is a big dilemma to be noticed here, people are getting more close to their friends through the magic of social networks, sweet n sour SMS, scrumptious smartphone interactive applications or taking the juice out of low call rates, hence they are building their own world of fantasies therefore sharing their thoughts, feelings, ideas, future goals with their friends mostly as on the other hand one can clearly see an increasing communication gap when it comes to their family. I would call this technology circus as a "diabetologies"..that attracts towards the sweetness of technolgical aroma, as we all know too much addiction to this sweetness is also injurious to our emotional health.
P.S. As we hear alot of "Green Technology" phenomena
I Wish everyone an "Emotion Friendly Technology" OR "Family Technology"
Sincere regards,
Awais Amjad
The advent of technology in this modern ear is inevitable. World is going to be squeezed, there is no other way around. So with its advantages, it has also some disadvantages, and among others you mentioned one very important one. Since we are not good managers of our life, we may become its adversity. I appreciate your author's concerns on it.
People should really pay attention to this article. This is affecting millions and millions of people in this world. This could also bring people closer to each other.
its really true…really provoking thought.
Nice 1 …..we really need to think about it
a cogent article…:)