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Vijay Garg
Nowadays only chemical drugs like white, heroin, cocaine etc. are included in the list of drugs. These drugs have also created such a catastrophe in the recent past that thousands of families have been devastated in it, but the governments of the time seemed helpless to find a lasting solution other than making statements or taking oaths. Are apart from these drugs, another dangerous drug that has gripped today’s youth like a joke is the drug of social media or mobile phone. We cannot blame the youth alone for this symptom but the whole society and governments are equally responsible for it. First of all, parents themselves unknowingly start intoxicating their children in their infancy. Parents who are unaware of the harmful effects of mobile phones on their children’s physical and mental development keep themselves busy on their children’s mobile phones. They are very proud to see their children using Facebook, WhatsApp or Tik-Tok etc. on their mobile phones and make it a point for their relatives to do the same. In this way the intoxication inflicted on the children by the parents in their childhood takes a very serious form. It is said that parents are the first teachers to teach their children right and wrong, but in this case the parents themselves have gone astray. I am sharing a similar story that five or seven friends got together in a program. All the children were playing with phones but one was reading a book. Everyone else asked the mother of the child who was reading the book about how to get the children used to the book. Addicted. The implication is that children understand by seeing, not by hearing. Children will do what their parents do. In our minds the phone sounds like a tiny kink and the book looks like a huge mountain.
But it can never be forgotten that the eye is always itchy and the unique herbs on the mountain become medicine and ointment. Sometimes I do not have the courage to pick up my appreciated book and the phone on the drawing room charging I get out of the quilt barefoot. Governments are equally responsible for exacerbating this problem. Free or very cheap data available to run the internet is the biggest cause of this problem. The situation has become such that taking advantage of this weakness of the youth, politicians are also gathering votes and forming governments by promising to provide smartphones instead of promising other development projects. The seriousness of the problem can be gauged from the fact that today’s youth have no time to think about serious issues of society. The flood of social media has drowned the youth to such an extent that the educated and unemployed youth do not even realize their unemployment. These young people prefer to watch ticking on the phone rather than reading a book or listening to scholars.
But just as there are two sides to every coin, so there are two sides to social media. Used properly, mobile phones can be a boon to society. Mobile phones can be a great learning tool for students. Most of the youngsters are also doing good deeds for the society by using their mobiles properly like writing articles, poems and songs to guide people and show the mirror of the society and have a good level of debate on social media. Similarly, there is a lot of information about any kind of business on social media. In this way social media is also being used to create a better society. Parents need to be aware of the negative effects of social media and motivate their children to do the same. Young people should also free themselves from the clutches of mobile phones and prove this a blessing. Let us light the flame of that lamp within us, which is a testimony of burning against darkness, which will keep the existence of light in this darkness after us. Let’s make a resolution, let’s try. |
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