“Dear,
what’s wrong with the world? Everyone is immersed in their phones that I feel
like I am speaking to myself?! No one wants to talk?!
At home, all my children starting from the
elder one who is working in a firm and two younger ones studying at school are
always busy with their pc or phone; usually reasoning that –I have to send some
things to partners, it’s an interesting part, one minute- whenever I want them.
Except from “Hi dady, how are you?” - they can’t effort more words as their eyes
down ,immersed on phone . I compose myself that “ they are children, don’t
understand many things yet?!” , however , by surprise , my wife also changed. Since my son brings her smartphone and linked
with WIFI, she becomes busy person. The woman who always sit in the hall, wait
my coming from work and talk with me- now not here anymore. Majority time I found her talking or
gossiping with her relatives abroad .
And this is not the only atmosphere at
home, I observe this everywhere- in bus, in the street, at work-you reveal all
people of different age holding a phone and searching something. At college,
majority don’t listen to lectures- professors speak –but students sit in
Facebook or another sites. Even if two –three friends hanging out somewhere, in
some moment you can discover that everyone is quite, busy with surfing internet, virtual
life. They forget real world and
succumb to second world. Real conversations are not that much attractive than online
ones.”
Message from
citizen of real world
. Definitely, we cannot close our eyes and go
without mention the great advancement and development of the Internet to the
world. There is no doubt that the WWW,
better known as the Internet has made our life become easier and
more convenient. It is a huge source of information, entertainment,
communication, education etc. Internet is the main transnational channel for
economic, political, social, business, cultural interactions between not only
governments but nations, people, organizations and so on.
In contrast, for all its advantages and
positive aspects, online communication and Internet equally , maybe more dramatically affecting to
societies. We try to “better “ things
too much that it back fires in some surprising way. At present,
there are millions of people out there that are addicted to the Internet and
they have alter ego life via Internet. Those people do not go out and socialize with real people. They choose
to have a second life, and they are so caught up in it they don’t even
know it. They are on it so much that
they loose sleep because they spend so much time online and they often stay up
late.
Internet addiction settled its roots in
the lives of the people so deeply that today this is looking like an essential
problem of public health. This addiction is similar to the obsessive compulsive
disorder and is also often compared to alcoholism. It has been estimated that
around 1o-15 million people in the US are suffering from Internet Addiction
Disorder and this is increasing at the rate of 25% every year. Internet has controlled some
of them’s life in that much that they got mad if they cannot connect to
internet . It become a kind of physiology sickness around us.
While people are lost in internet or so
called “Cyber
Community” for a long period of time, they are neglecting friends,
family and job, lying or concealing how much time they spend online, sleep
deprivation and irritability when attempting to stop using the Internet. A
lonely person is most likely to become an Internet addict, because the cyber,
virtual world offers a substitute for real social life. So they tend to forget
that there is really a life out there.
Correspondingly, there are various levels
and different type of Virtual madness. The most popular one among youngsters- online gaming
and gambling. The World of Warcraft, EverQuest, MMOG( Massive
Multiplayer Online Game), MMORPG, coupled with Twinity, Second World and other
3D virtual environments, mash up of real world and virtual one where you can travel as
avatar and create your own world, play games , chat with different
people throughout the world. Some are addicted to online casinos that offer virtual
gambling on the Internet. They enter their credit card number and select which
game they would like to play, they can wager how much they want, just like in a
real casino.
Another Internet addicts are addicted to pornography.
It is especially effective and harmful to children, adults. Because it has an
easy access, children and youth can open pornography sites without any
difficulty and this can cause them to either become sexually-deviant or
sexually addictive. This phenomenon has also caused another problem, and that
is an increase in prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in children.
Furthermore, large amount of the people in
the global obtained a regular habit
to check their social sites at least 10
times in a day. And also millions people like checking celebrities sites, watch
pictures and videos when they have to do nothing at all. These are drastic
consequences of Internet and Virtual communication to our
society.
All in all, the excessive amount of
entertaining hours spent on the “ International super Highway” is
simply not worth the long –term effects that come with it. Internet should not
harm to human life, people should control their personal life without any
effects, remember real world, parents should always monitor how much time their
children spend on the Internet, and relevantly the usage should be beneficial
for their development. Internet
itself was created as a tool to help our daily agenda, to facilitate our work,
so it should stay as a tool, not a controller of our mind.
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