Before i start writing this post, i would like to say yes, as the title says , i'm going to take a riot on social media but like everyone else i'm an active member of all the social media applications in the world! Mind you, I'm a victim! I'm hit by these amazing diseases called facebook-eyetis,
WhatsApphobia, Youtuberclosis etc... These diseases are not imaginary or made-up they are definitely there but people like me who are in the final stages of it can only understand this! Sad part is, there is no doctor to take a look at this as their fancy MBBS and MD degrees cannot do us good nor there is no health insurance policy that will help your tax benefits - I mentioned tax cause this is the time of the year you have to pay (Tax) those celebrity beggars whom we all have chosen as we do not know how else to waste money than giving it to a corrupt politician, coming back to the topic.. This is very contagious and comes with the electronic media called Smart phones( I hate Electronics), Firstly it was totally targeting the kids and mainly the teens 16-30's but later it sensed a threat called "parents" and their famous dialogue called "keep the phone and go study" being a smart-ass disease it targeted the elderly too. Now all parents, uncles ,aunties and even grandparents are hooked to the smart disease! Being well versed with the disease i would love to spread the awareness of this issue.
The causes are many like boredom, laziness, status quotient, show-off and no work. Most of it hit the youngsters and the kids.. The boredom is the primary and first stage of the disease, because of boredom it makes people to take a look at the phone and switch on the internet and see what the other bored souls in the world are doing and looking at this we feel good as there are millions of them bored at any point of time! Now this is bad , cause either people are not having something to do or they are not willing to do the things they have to do both ways are not good! keeping yourself engaged is the only way to save your money and time or meeting people who are not boring cause if they are boring then you'll end up taking the phone and checking your notifications.. laziness is the next stage of the disease, though it has some good use like helping people out and connecting people without meeting them but it has major cons most important being making them more lazy! Like Super Star Rajnikanth said , Rich are getting richer and poor are becoming poorer, similarly, lazy people are becoming lazier but even active people are also becoming lazier and you know what, we should be proud that we are in the time where the world has hit the heights of laziness cause when there is an application which will help you order. deliver, move, pikcup, drop , book and do whatever the other applications can do .. basically they feel bad for you that you have to do some work like booking a cab or even order a pizza ! which is nothing but a click away!! There was a time when people were made salves and forced to do these stuff but now there are people investing money & time and are also ready to be slaves and do these stuff!! That's some crazy thing, right? by the way, the applications name is "Super Text" and it is a start-up from Bangalore, If you want the number please comment below ( I told you, I have hit the last stage of this disease).
The next stage of the disease is a serious one- status quotient.. Yes, people feel that this disease must not be the same! In the sense the effects and causes are the same but a few people feel that they deserve a better way to get these disease, that is pay more for the phone that gives the disease, something like rich man disease! They pay more for the same disease cause they wanna have a feel of upper caste disease and want to shine out separately , like pay 50 grand for the same disease when other people get it for 10 grand! The i-disease ( IPhone cause to buy this you must sell your kidney, at least one kidney) Discrimination in disease, ever heard? Yeah this is the one! But honestly some of them buy it for good use, like me ( and no, i did not sell my kidney but it has this effect as if i'm showing off. Trust me, its an amazing phone).The last stage of this disease that i'm suffering from is " No work, When you have absolutely no work in office or college or anywhere for that matter and you're in a city like Chennai and all your friends are in another city like Bangalore and they are all having fun and you are rotting here with nothing to do then not even god can save you ! cause you will invariably take your phone everywhere even to the toilet! social media will be like the dog in the Hutch add and it will be singing
"You and I in this Social world;
Whatsapp , facebook ;
You and I, Watching videos on youtube ;
You and I in this Social world.. "
Now all i said was how youngsters and teens get affected but how do parents and all the elder generation fall in this trap ? That is the effect of the damn curiosity and the need of this disease! Parents went from saying " Keep the phones and go study " to " did you check the video of that Thirupathi temple darshan , i shared it to you on whatsapp and on your facebook wall" The disease was invented few years back but then it became major because of this one dude in the United States of America called Mark Zuckerberg! He had an amazing tag line like Maggie, Connecting people over the globe, Now we know what is happening to maggi ! It contains lead apparently and no one knew it for 20 odd years, Its not been that long since social media hit this world but trust me its effects are equally worse!
I won't say get rid of the disease but i will say reduce the time you get hit by the disease before it is too late keep it like a cold or cough and not like freaking sugar or diabetes and the only way to do so is engage your mind in some productive manner and in some work that keeps you busy for most of the time! Follow your hobbies that you write on your resumes unless you had copied them from someone else's resume! People forget the hobbies and passion once they are into this and feel its just a way to fill up forms or resumes and to answer people when they have been asked! Just give it a shot! Live the life that is been given to you and not creep into others life and later don't complain about it being bad cause you ain't living it!
Live free and live your dreams and please stop making Zuckerberg so rich!
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Vibhu
