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.