Over the past 20 years we have seen an immense growth in the utilisation and evolution of technology and social media. Earlier when a landline phone no. is all the knowledge that you had of other people and that too if you decide to call them at all now-a-days we have all the knowledge of every person that would’ve lost contact from if it were not for the social media. But the issue is that people have started using it more as a pass-time than an item of innumerable benefits.
Social media has become a part of everyone’s life in the current situation. While the older generation – those born in the baby boom period shortly after World War II – had alcohol and drugs as their vice, the younger generation – the so-called millennials – have social media as theirs. They use digital age, using technology to relax and interact with others. Social media is a big deal for them; it is a lifeline to the outside world.
Although people of all ages use social media, it is more harmful for younger users than it is for the older ones. Addiction may seem like a harsh and strong word to use in the context of social media but the term actually refers to any behaviour that is extremely pleasurable and is the only reason to help you get through the day. And it is much more of an addiction to the current generation. It has also been reported that the millennials have a compulsive need of checking their phone every few minutes. This makes them prone to living in a virtual reality thinking that is their actual life meanwhile cutting themselves from the real world.
Social media and other technologies are commodities and that is what they should be treated as, if we take it for the reality our world as well as our individual personal lives are going to get in a lot of problem in the near future.
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