Taken For A Ride… Virtually Not Visually Why are we so naive and so dependent on technology? Yesterday, I out of randomness conducted a social experiment. And the way people responded, I was amazed. From my cozy cabin I visited Rome, and people without realizing, just started liking and commenting on my post. Why and how does it concern anyone what I do in my life and why are we so desperate for recognition and attention. Why do we crave for it? Why do we post things which are irrelevant to someone else’s life? And why do we expect “Likes” and “Comments” on what we do in our private lives. We have become so socially dependent, without realizing that, there is life outside too. Just imagine, we get hushed up, when someone’s phone rings. Just to connect with the absent, we ignore all that, that is present around us. I remember that photographs were usually clicked on special occasions. And one used to eagerly wait for those to develop and they used to bring out beautiful curves on our lips, as they were a visual proof of the days gone by. But today, due to technological advancement, the randomness of “clicking” and “posting” has killed the momentous living and reliving of those memories. And on the top of it, we are expecting others to like and comment, even though it is of no concern to them. These days, one sees people clicking and posting their “selfie’s” (May be derived from the word selfish). Why have we become so lonely, that we don’t even have anyone who would click our picture for us? We see people posting on social media, that he was at such and such place, that he ate at some diner, was with somebody, etc. Werent those your private and precious moments. Why kill the beauty of the same by telling everyone. Might as well climb the Eiffel Tower and shout your lungs out and tell everyone. I guess, if I stand in my colony/ lane holding in one hand some photographs, etc and start shouting and calling everyone out and asking them to see those pictures and comment on them, people will start thinking that I have lost it and shall start pelting stones at me. But when I do the same on some social media, people react differently, as if I have just returned victorious from the Olympics. Just imagine, a terrorist, enters some public place and starts posting pictures on his social media account and updating his status as “ I am at so-and-so place, going to bomb the place…..” and people start liking his post, some even having the audacity to comment on it, with comments like; “great”, “this place surely needed beautification”, some even preaching….. But actually nobody does anything about it. If I would have been in the place of that terrorist, I would have surely got frustrated by the likes and comments and would have updated my status by saying “Abandoned the idea. No use… this place will one day itself vanish and finish and people are more interested in it virtually and not visually.” I am no Luddite, I love technology for what it is, but we as Homo sapiens, have to remember that we created technology, not vice-a-versa. With all due respect to Zuckerbergs and alike, we have to shave off the cocoon of dependence from us and actually start going out to smell the flowers. Or else we all will be left alone in dark rooms, just trying to grope our life back, but will end as clueless, frustrated, not even knowing the difference between the smell of flowers and crap…. With apologies to all, and especially all those who “Liked” and “Commented” on my hoax. And to my wife. Dear, remember I had once told you that I will take you to Rome, well, If not personally, I took you on that promised trip... virtually.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:14:06 +0000
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