Have you read Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"? Yes, the first ever science fiction in the whole world! Sure it narrates the tragedy when self-aggrandising fools tend to play god. In the process, they generate demons, literally devils, they themselves cannot later control.
These days the devil thus out of control is the social media. The so-called "big tech" companies, without a large heart, have let loose these unseen addictions. Yes, you can see a dipsomaniac rotting in his own vomit, a junkie behaving weirdly in her drug induced trance. But you cannot know what goes on behind the closed doors your young ones bang shut on your face, while they are busy scrolling, often mindlessly, the social media sites.
The ghouls the social media maddeningly manages has everything that is the refuse of the human spirit. There is huge bullying, rustic ragging, terrible shaming (for such reasons as age which is the stupidest because everybody is older than someone), constant cheap attempts to invade privacy, weird attitudes about women, sex, and so on, and so on infinitely!
Do not you believe me? Okay, listen to the British Prime Minister who in the British Parliament discussed "Adolescence", a web series in four parts, which shows how a teenager from an extremely loving, perfectly ideal family murders a school girl under the influence of gaming and social media induced male rage.
Honestly, the big bad world is no longer at bay, far far away once you close the main gate shut. In fact, behind the closed doors of your children's rooms (the pampered silly brats who do not know the "c" of creativity, the "d" of discipline or the "i" of intelligence/imagination, but only the "b" of boredom), through gaming and social media, the worst refuse of the world, prejudices, violence, meanness, viciousness, is injected directly in to the empty brains of your children in an addictive way.
As a result, you have newly married brides (too! Truly sad!Pitifully patriarchal!) murdering anyone convenient from the new family, students never studying but getting pushed from year to year by educational institutes to put forth the show of "hundred per cent" results! In the balance hangs the fragile future of generations to come!
Well, Frankenstein could not control the monster he created. Hope we wake up at least now. Let us have happy discussions across the dining table. Let the dictum of "at least one meal together (without any digital contraption nearby)" rule the roost again. Considerate and kind communication by parents is the key if we are not to be fond(that is, silly and foolish) Frankenstein's!
Pratima@Communication is indeed necessary because the social media create a unique lingo, the crudest mode of the exclusionary 'in-group' mentality which pavés the way to all possible hells!
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