Internet-O2 of 21st century.
Today I woke up early and bought newspaper, internet was not running, so I called the provider and got Wi-Fi router set by him, he said it was reset or something he said in that husky voice, I did not remember, but later then I connected Wi-Fi router and surfed internet. Well it really makes me reflect that while internet was off, for 12 hours, I felt I was out of life, I wanted to watch YouTube videos and dangle on Quora for a while and surf internet but it did not happen, so there was F.R.I.E.N.D.S repeat telecast on TV that got me busy. It really got me into thinking, when internet halts, all work you have done and you have been planning to do, it causes delay, we have come to a thought-provoking juncture where we do maximum of our work in the rectangle or square, mobile and laptops windows respectively. It makes me in awe that, is it great or not? Well for information and social media purposes, it is somehow great, it gives you a lot of information that you can relate to and provide you many other resources that are reliable and effective. Social media can make you connect with friends and other people and you can also influence mass of population via social media, that is an influence in mobile and laptop, it can transform the world, and it can really bring a social revolution.
Also it has side effects too, it is shrink of curiosity and lack of morality, information is smoothly available so maximum of people only grasp the information and doesn’t get anything form them, that is, people only read or accumulate information for well-read purpose, and they are satisfied with just that, what about the application of knowledge? If you have a significant amount of knowledge then you can use it for your and other is constructive purpose, but we have only restrained ourselves to process and accumulate knowledge instead of making use of that knowledge by trying various methods and beliefs and bringing change. Easy readiness of knowledge and less ways to use it can bring a hole in innovation.
If there is nothing we can generate after what we have read, learnt and studied then let there be nothing to read, learn and study, but then, if we can generate an amazing use out of it then let it prosper in the approach of innovation, what we Indians call Jugaad in Hindi.
Absence of morality, many people in social media use pretentious information to sell their products and they have an immoral approach. Many people are there who present themselves as they are professionals in a certain field by changing their bio, and advise others. Social media is currently a con man’s paradise, he can approach you, talk to you and misguide you by making you believe in the fake. So many people use it as a profit-making thing and many use it just for fun, immoral use of social media can affect many people. Every day I read in newspaper about the crimes via internet, the latest is paper leak of accountancy paper of HSC and many more. Many people give you false information just for sake of fun; I got a message that, “Smita Irani, not “Smriti”, is holding a meeting in Delhi for Maharashtra board Rexam of 12th standard of economics subject. Well it was common sense, but I verified if the message is true or not. I knew it was false. However, many of my friends were scared and many were depressed, then I thought what about people, who cannot tolerate economics for just one day, then they must have thought they have to study it again; it must have given them a heart attack! Well it is just my imagination, but, fake massages can really give people heart attack.
So, internet is good and bad, can be used morally and also immorally, it is us who use internet and social media, so it is our duty to make use of these incredible resources smartly and intelligently and also morally. It had turned many people into information seeping idiots rather than information using geniuses. Use it carefully!
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