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Alas!
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· Mobile
phones came, we forgot to mug-up our near and dears’ contact numbers.
· Calendars
in mobile and computer made it easier to feed our dear one’s birthdays and
anniversaries. So we stopped storing them in our memories.
· Apps
on maps in our smartphones made us lazy to register the landmarks in our brain
while going through a new route.
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Telephones
came and we stopped meeting people in person.
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Facebook
came and we don’t bother to ring them up and talk.
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Video
chats has made us lazy. So we travel less to our loved ones place.
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Computer
came and we forgot to write.
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E-mails
resulted in almost no handwritten letters. The anticipation and the anxiousness
of waiting for a letter is gone forever.
· Photographs
can be shared in a click… By Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, e-mail or even MMS.
Result? The eagerness to meet our loved ones in person is gone!
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Calculators
evolved and we stopped to do mental calculations.
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E-shopping
came. Joy of shopping with family and friends gone.
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Joy
of holding books gone than we prefer E-books now.
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Cricket
and tennis is played online. Even running is done via Templerun!
·
We
prefer playing with the machine than with people.
·
We
draw on iPad/Tablet and not on paper.
· Even
a piano is played through app and not by tapping on the keys of a real one!
And the list goes on and
on…
Some days before, I noticed
that E-mail will inform if we forget to attach a file after typing something
which implies that we are attaching something. It also cautions that we have
not typed subject!
Damn! We don’t even have to
remember the spellings and keep a watch on what we type. After all, the
spelling and grammar check of MS Office will take care of it.
And I am feeling sorry for
myself and all of us…
Yes! All of us… Not a
single soul is spared by the pests named Computer, mobile phone and most
importantly internet…
Life has changed tremendously
and so has the life style!
I wholeheartedly welcome the changes in life in the recent years.In another five or ten years,you would condemn all the gadgets you proudly possess now as junk.
ReplyDeleteI agree that all these gadgets will be out soon and will be replaced with something more sophisticated.
DeleteOne thing we have to be careful is "auto-correct". It can land us to trouble. One blogger wrote a post about it. She said she wrote "love this post" and the computer automatically corrected it to "love this porn".
ReplyDeleteI agree... It can be really tricky at times!
DeleteThey were made to make life easier but we humans made it a curse
ReplyDeleteReally... They are the output of human intelligence...
DeleteBut they are making us lazy and foolish!
Sometimes, they are a blessing in the Long run . But then like you pointed out, they devoid us of the little happiness that brings a smile on our faces when there is a personal touch involved in our deeds. Especially calling some one.. or turning up at some friends place for a chit chat, it is true. But then most of believe in going where the mob goes, !
ReplyDeleteWell said :)
DeleteThanks :)
Hmm . I agree and I do disagree. Hand written letters- well well would we get the same intimate feeling reading an email? I'm not sure either way. But books yes absolute no to e books. You hold the soul of the writer in your palm while you read a book but an e- book - my foot it is cruelly impersonal.
ReplyDeleteYea, even I agree with u.The satisfaction which I get wen I read a book, an e-book can nva give it.Books are really so close to my heart unlike e-books.
DeleteOnce again satya, t'was a nice post ..well written!!
@Anil : I would love it if someone gives me a hand written letter...
Delete@ Akshitha : Thanks a lot :)
Deletei am in absolute agreement with this! everyone praises technology...in some ways i hate it.
ReplyDeletei think this is why i enjoy old vintage books so much...they feel like a fresh escape...no cell phones, no computers...people wrote letters and took trains. life was simple, the little things were the important things.
the use of internet and social media has taken the meaning from life and life's experiences...everything is just thrown out there, talked about, joked about, looked at by everyone and anyone...not even interpersonal relationships seem 'personal' anymore!
Thanks Stacy for sharing your thoughts :)
DeleteI agree with your thoughts, but, I do look at it positively, at least I can keep in touch with my loved ones with a click on FB, better than nothing at all, my 85 year old father can spend good time on his I pad, if not otherwise, he wouldn't have much to kill his time at that age,I can digitally paint if my arthritis gets worse :-))
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Padmaja. My worry comes when people prefer such virtual world and gadgets to the real one... When they consider it as a substitute.
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