I feel like technology is slowly eating me up. If there is
one thing that I never lose sight of, it is my phone. I check on it almost
every minute. It surprises me even when I can manage to stay in one place for
hours just checking my social media accounts. Before when my life was still
Jurassic, I can spend hours from reading books and writing on my journal. But
now I get to spend less and less from reading and writing when I have plenty of
time to even do so. Well, it is because most of my time are spent on social
media. Ugggghhhh and I can't turn-down my Facebook account as I am an
administrator of a couple of pages.
Not only that, I have noticed that I now have
really short attention-span in things. I drop reading long messages or text,
the reason why I get bored easily from reading books. And I sometimes have a
hard time listening to a person talking to me. I don't know what this is called
but I have heard some famous people who experienced the same. Solution? they
detoxified by simply deleting or deactivating their accounts. But the problem
with me is - I can't do that. My account is attached to work-related pages and
I had to stay updated with the news. I don't know if Mark Zuckerburg has
already found ways on how to 'debrief Facebook users, do they even have that?
Or perhaps, they are not fully aware of its psychological effect on users. This
thing that I am experiencing now is indeed alarming and I wonder if kids
younger than 6 years old are strongly reprimanded by parents from using their
smart phones for long-hours. Because I think parents really need to. The
virtual world is a dangerous place, and people have to be well aware of its
difference from reality. Or the line between the two is blurring?
