Chat online, tickets online, banking online, mail online, travel online, jobs online, shopping online, gaming online, socializing online, cinema online. Everything in this world seems to be going online. Don't be surprised. People can even pray, eat, and even have a cup of coffee online in the near future. It may sound absurd, but remember who could have imagined a hundred years ago that we could locate our school and homes from a satellite in outer space and see them on monitor.
Yes, amazing things have happened with the beginning of the internet. No need to stand in long queues in the hot summer to book bus or rail tickets. We can now do banking online at the click of the button. Books from the whole world are up for grabs online, that too for free. Postal mail has really become a thing of the past. Now we have faster, accurate and simpler email. Online video tutorials have made education easy and accessible to every one. Sitting in the comfort of our home, we can attend the lecture of a professor in Harvard. We can video-chat with our friends anywhere in the world. In simpler words, distances do not matter in this internet world. Listing these benefits, one can reach the conclusion that that the internet has changed the way we lived better.
But wait a minute, anything in excess can lead to problems. Look at the internet generation. Most of you spend hours on the so-called social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook, twitter, etc. without realizing how much it can affect your mental and physical growth. Students have got so addicted to these virtual worlds that they forget there is more to life than just sitting in front of a plastic box.
Children at young age have got cut off from their parents, friends and relatives. They now prefer online gaming in the air-conditioned rooms of their homes to sweating it out on the playground. How can they learn the importance of team spirit and physical exercise? Students are suffering a lack of concentration due to the addiction to social networking sites. People spend hours of office hours just updating their Facebook status, thus decreasing productivity.
No doubt, the internet helps us keep in touch with friends but there is no substitute for human interaction. Now people prefer sending e-cards for birthdays, etc.Thus it turns into e-friendship but we need a pure one to sustain.
In short, we have lost the human touch. We were born to live in a society, not in a virtual world where people fake their identities. After all, we are not robots. We have our own feelings and emotions which a programmed computer cannot understand. We cannot live in our virtual fantasy world ignoring the real world. We need to realize that we have invented the internet technology. We are the masters and we should not become slaves to this technology. We should not allow the internet to rule us but allow it to work for us.The internet in a wonderful technology but it needs to be used wisely.
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