Humans are not matured enough for Internet and social media – youtube, facebook, instagram, X (twitter), whatsapp(chat apps) and any digital content sharing or digital communication platforms.
We share audio and video over Internet. As human we have six senses. See, hear, taste, smell, touch sensory, thinking. Out of these six senses, we transmit visual(see) and audio(hear) senses over internet. Other senses… we are not able to transmit as on date.
Visual sense is very important as brain uses more energy to process visual inputs.
Both audio and video combined, takes our 100% attention when watching.
A child is granted unlimited access to drugs. It does not aware it is wrong, it does not aware it is lethal to body and mind. It consumes and habituated to drugs and become addicted. Like a child exposed to drugs… humans are exposed to Internet and digital world. We do not realize, internet and social media a addictive and destructive to our life. We starts consuming it for our needs, slowly with or without our awareness we become addicted to it.
Our interest and passions are transformed to addiction by social media. Internet and social media drill a deep hole in our wallet, and we become financially infected to spend. Our hard earned money is sucked by internet and social media addiction.
We don’t know what is happy to us, instead social media infiltrate our mind and convince us to “believe” what is happy to us and we chase it.
Need of the hour is all over the world governments should ban internet and social media from public access. Internet and social media be restricted. Or increase the cost of internet astronomically so that majority of the population do not have access to internet or have limited access to internet.
We are harvesting a digital addicted new generation, who keeps the digital gadgets as part of the their physical body. Always touching the mobile phone. We do not know the future, no one can guess future, but the upcoming digital addicted next generation humans, will be different from the past.
We are psychologically forced to consume, spend… even borrow and spend… even get loan and spend by social media. Our moods are determined by the digital content we watch. Our delusions are driven by digital contents we consume.
The “I” or “I am” is constructed by digital media.
It is very very hard to get rid of this digital addition. Like rehabilitation for alcoholic addiction, we need rehabs for Digital addition.
Everyone who is connected are addicted.
Whole world is consuming Digital Drugs. Internet Service Providers are trafficking digital drugs.
It is very hard to control your kids/children/teenager/adult/people of all ages… from using internet. If their friends, relatives, co-workers are using internet then one person can not control himself. We will have the mind set of “whole world is using internet, what is wrong with me”
There are undeniable benefits of internet and digital platforms, no doubt about it. It’s harms are more serious than it’s benefits. Internet and social media platforms provide both honey and poison. We as humans are not able to distinguish between poison and honey, we consume both. Can you intake honey mixed with poison? That’s what we do regarding internet and digital platforms.
What I am saying is similar to ban sweets in India…but nothing wrong in banning sweets in diabetic infected country. Ban motorcycles in India… but nothing wrong in banning motorcycles in India where people in all ages don’t follow traffic rules. Restrict Internet… nothing wrong in restrict internet where people are not able to distinguish good and bad.
For sweets, in overall population few % percentage of people are suffering from diabetic. In overall population, lesser % people meet accidents, larger population have safe journey. If we compare the affected(diabetic, accident) people with overall population, the affected percentage is very small. It is a sort of probability. So sweets and motorcycles are allowed. But digital drugs… Whole humanity is affected… everybody from child to old age are addicted to digital drugs. Whole country is affected. No probability matrix here… entire population is consuming digital drugs,… not in percentage…. Whole population. So, digital drugs have to be banned or restricted.
There is good and bad in everything.
There are benefits from fossil fuels…. bad, they pollute environment and cause global warming. There are benefits in AC, fridge… bad, they provide old food and cause global warming. Automobiles are boon for human mobility, but people die in automobile accidents here and there. Aeroplanes… great benefits, but seldom people die in flight accidents… It happens.
The percentage of positive is more than percentage of negative to be used by people. So, people are availing flight travel, though there are flight accidents here and there. Accident percentage is negligible when compared with number successful flight travels.
But, more percentage of negative than positive in digital drugs. It has to be banned or restricted by government.
What is the difference between narcotics and digital drugs. There is a notion in society that narcotics are bad, but no such notion about using internet and interactive digital platforms. We have to create a taboo to use internet and social media platforms. People should afraid or hesitate to use internet and social media unless there is a pressing valid need.
This can not be a one man effort. It is the responsibility of government which has power and authority to frame policies and rules to restrict unlimited access to internet and social media.
As a parent we can not control our kids from using internet when we ourself as an adult addicted to internet. It is the social and governmental responsibility to eradicate digital drugs from society.
