I have two best friend, a male and a female one. We have a
strong bonding. But you would feel strange knowing that within the duration of
8 and 12 years of our friendship we have hardly 50 photographs together. It was
so funny, that one day we three went for a photoshoot with his DSLR
camera and were able to click not more than 10 photographs one whole day.
That’s probably because we were more into spending quality time with each
other.
We have become unsocial after using social media. Most images
shared on social media’s are just an illusion of our real life. Reality is
quite the contrary. Everyone just wants’ others to know how much happy they
are, when they actually aren’t. Someone who gives attractive status upload
should be able to realise the importance or the true sense of happiness in
life. How can one "feel happy with 30 others", or "feel alone
with 15 others", "a day like never before", "a
wonderfull day with 20 others".
It’s a wonder how the most important events in our lives are
overshadowed with posing for the perfect capture, till the moment itself is
lost. We live in a society, where the value of human life and the importance of
relationship has decreased. Here, I reminded of a story of two terrorist who
talk about their plan of killing 30 people and a dog. One man overheared them
and could not control his curiosity and loosely enquired, “Why the dog?”.
That’s the reality. No one really cares about the lives of people anymore.
One can
cite the example of celebration of the days like “mother’s day" with a
photo of his/her mother. Instead of giving her the love and respect she
deserves in real life, we believe that public display of emotion on social
media even when she doesn't have a mail id is quite ironically.
We have become more dependent on our phones and make the social media the
primary concern of our life. This is the reason why games like 'Blue whale',
'momo challenge' can cost lives and change their perspective towards the
society. Well mobile phones and social media have become an integral part of
our life and we cannot deny the importance of it. But one should realise the
pros and cons of it and let it not rule our lives.
NILAKHI HAZARIKA.
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