Today is an era in which another addition has been made to the basic necessities of the human beings. Instead of the aboriginal three needs of food, cloth and shelter. We have inadvertently added social media to our priorities. An account in all the major social media is the new “thing” in the town. The real question is not about having or not having an account in FaceBook or any other social media. The foremost and focal issue is whether the continuous use of Facebook for 24 hours for any purpose should be conventional or not.
Yesterday while I was doing some of my routine “Facebooking”. I realized that I have a daily contribution of more than 14 hours to my social media, which includes facebook on top, followed by Linkdin, Twitter, Young Entrepreneur, Mashable, Digg, Delicious, E-bloger, I-land, Ezine, Scribd etc.
I am not alone; I have a crowd of millions of people all over the globe. In the initial stages my intention was just like any other college going student to share my ideas on social forum where I can get a review of what people think about my ideas. Today I do it because I have thousands of my readers visiting everyday in my account in search of important information. Now it has been renovated into more of my moral responsibility to give my readers every time something new and helpful.
Social media being used for a purpose is constructive. However today we witness masses getting addicted to it.
Are you addicted to social media? Come find out with me? How do you define a social media adicto?
Social media addicted is a person who is always online doing nothing. He is spending major time playing games, answering quizzes, using applications and just wandering in his account. I know many people in my surrounding who would just post a status update on Facebook and then wait for hours waiting for others to reply and like that update. This lame visit to your account with no real intentions of slightest communication is what I term as addiction.
The sole reason behind this is that with every passing day we are confining more and more in ourselves. We are not real life social but social only in social media.
This is a very serious issue. According to the scientist the children who are using Facebook inexhaustibly for games are prone to loss in memory retention. If the addiction continues and grows with the same pace then we won’t be surprised at a less smart new generation.
Social media is definitely not a devil. It is the new talk of the town. It is like a wild cat that we need to tame. We need to understand our priorities and make a correct choice. Addiction does not work for anything. Control your social media and do not let it control you.