Digital Detox.
We live at a frenzied pace,and the ubiquity of the internet and social media has shortened our attention spans. Twitter has narrowed our messaging to a specified number of characters. Facebook has transformed most of us into a never-ending addiction to "status updates". And "Selfies" have pandered to the innate(basic?) instinct in us to capture for the moment,if not posterity, whatever trivial pursuit we are engaged in at that time. Lastly, like Karaoke was to the earlier generation, You Tube has projected our sometimes hilarious "takes" on everything under the sun,right into our living rooms.
And all this barrage of infomedia has threatened to overwhelm us into passive consumers of what every Tom,Dick,Harry,Jane,fondly thinks is the ultimate in creativity,though many times it may lull us into boredom and sleep.
But social media cannot be wished away,it has become an important part of our lives. There is no turning the tech clock back. And to each,their own. As in most other things, balance is everything,though however difficult and elusive it may be to achieve. May be it is time to Digital Detox !
M.P.Singh
We live at a frenzied pace,and the ubiquity of the internet and social media has shortened our attention spans. Twitter has narrowed our messaging to a specified number of characters. Facebook has transformed most of us into a never-ending addiction to "status updates". And "Selfies" have pandered to the innate(basic?) instinct in us to capture for the moment,if not posterity, whatever trivial pursuit we are engaged in at that time. Lastly, like Karaoke was to the earlier generation, You Tube has projected our sometimes hilarious "takes" on everything under the sun,right into our living rooms.
And all this barrage of infomedia has threatened to overwhelm us into passive consumers of what every Tom,Dick,Harry,Jane,fondly thinks is the ultimate in creativity,though many times it may lull us into boredom and sleep.
But social media cannot be wished away,it has become an important part of our lives. There is no turning the tech clock back. And to each,their own. As in most other things, balance is everything,though however difficult and elusive it may be to achieve. May be it is time to Digital Detox !
M.P.Singh
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