Sir,
These days, free internet and mobile phones pose more danger than cigarettes and alcohol. Cigarettes and alcohol make a person physically weak but this phone addiction is spoiling the entire personality of an individual, and, in turn, affecting the development of our country. Phones are stymieing the youth’s mind as he does not think outside this network of social media.
All this adversity created by so-called technology makes me feel a little worried and disappointed as even many elders have no time to guide the youths. Days are gone when one would wait for a trunk call or would walk miles to talk to someone in distance through STD. Now, everyone is easily accessible to the trending technology of mobile phones. The number of users is so high that it is a rare sight to see someone with hands free without a phone. And the addiction is not restricted to any age group but is seen right from children to older persons.
People are blindly following the trends but aren’t aware of the adverse aftermaths due to the excessive usage of mobile phones. A year-old kid swipes up the phone as if it’s a toy used for decades; and the worst part is that they are encouraged to do so by considering it as a work of talent. A few kids are given phones as an aid for easy galloping of food. Children are subjected to a situation where they sit idle for hours without any physical activity.
The issue doesn’t end here as it’s not only kids who are addicted to the use of mobile phones. Present youth generation are going ‘brainless’. They are misusing their precious time meant to gain knowledge, acquire skills and decide their career on which their daily bread and butter depend. God can only save us!
K Ravi, E-237, GGP Colony, Bhubaneswar-751025, Mob: 9437616497