It is
early in the morning and I go out for a run to the park and as I check my
phone, the FourSquare app asks me, if I want to update and share to the
Internet world, that I am currently at the park. As I sit on the park bench and
grab some water to drink, I check my phone again and my Facebook homepage asks
me, what am I doing right now? I have a life but I am completely controlled and
stalked by the social media who wants to know every move I make. This is the
reality of today’s major population, totally controlled and stalked by the
virtual world of social media.
So I go out to a café to grab some
breakfast, I am compelled to take a picture of the food I am about to eat and
upload that in Instagram. Is it really necessary I share the world what I am
actually eating right now? Well, duh! It is important for the whole world to
know that currently I am at this café eating this chocolate pan cake.
While I have my breakfast all alone at the
restaurant, I am busy sending messages to my friends in Whatsapp sharing
pictures and videos. Wow! How technology has advanced that I don’t need to meet
any of my friends as they are readily available within a touch of the mobile
phone screen and so I am eating my breakfast all alone in the café and don’t
need friends. Yes, I don’t need friends because I am addicted to social media
where the apps in my phone and websites in the Internet controls me and my
movements.
After
a great breakfast, I would normally want to talk to my friends about how lovely
the breakfast was and how good the service was in the café but no, the social
media controls me so I am going to login to my TripAdvisor app and write a
review about how amazing the service and
the food in the café. Why would I want to talk to anyone about it when in a
click I can talk to the whole world about my experience and yes I definitely do
that and the whole world listens. But I don’t get a response about it, a reaction
by a human in front on me. I don’t feel human but just a little toy of the
virtual world.
Grabbing some breakfast, I have to go
visit the courier service office where I have to pick up some stuffs and I
actually don’t know the exact way to reach there. As a human, I would just walk
by the street, smile at some stranger and may be just ask someone for help to
locate me to the address. However, I am controlled by the Internet, so no
asking to anyone, no talking to anyone or even smiling and just keeping my head
focused on my phone, I open up Google Maps and turn on my GPS navigation and
navigate the address with my eyes completely focused on the way and my GPS
enabled phone.
As I reach the office, I check my courier
docket number on my phone using the courier service’s website, confirm it and
get my stuffs. Well, the stuffs I got, which was basically some products I
ordered online was great. Who needs to go tour the shopping mart or hit the
mall when I can easily shop anything and everything of my choice, at the
comfort of my own room using various online shopping sites.
As I reach home, I lie down on the sofa to
get some rest and as a normal person, I would pick up the newspaper and read
the news for today. But again who does that? I can get the ePaper of any
newspaper readily on my phone, my tablet or laptop so why not that. Or maybe
just open up an Internet news website and read whatever I want to. Oh well, the
news is full of reports about crimes and corrupt politicians so why not talk about
it with the virtual world so let me log in to Twitter and tweet about it and
see how many people favorites it and how many retweets I get. Oh yes, I am
speaking about what’s wrong with the world and I am having an interaction in
Twitter.
Okay after reading some newspaper, let me
do some socializing. Let me catch up with all my friends and their lives and
no, I am not talking about going to meet them for a cup of coffee but log in to
Facebook and check their status updates and photos and like them and comment in
them. Oh I am having fun and that thing is really funny so let me LOL LOL LOL
even when I haven’t stretched a single muscle on my face to laugh. Oh yes I
have a life and I have 985 friends in Facebook and that’s WOW.
Time for some lunch and I am lazy to cook
so let me order some pizza. I again log in to Dominos.com and order my favorite
pizza and oh yes CouponDunia.com has some great promotional coupon codes to use
and I get a discount. So, I ordered my pizza and within 30 minutes, I get it
and eat it all.
A slow weekend at home and I want some entertainment so why not download some good music from iTunes or better let me
go to YouTube and check some cool music videos. Oh okay that video looks
interesting about some guy falling into the pit and that’s funny and I spend
two hours watching funny videos and laughing alone and somehow land up in a
page about how to talk to a giraffe. Well, it is amazing how entertaining and
creative my life is with the Internet.
Time passes by so quickly when you’re
enjoying and it is already sun set. Let me go to the kitchen and cook something
for dinner. However, I am not a good cook so let me check those great recipes
online and cook some great dishes. After spending an hour cooking, I finally did
it so now I am going to update a status about me cooking fried chicken at home,
because in this virtual world controlled and stalked by the social media and
internet, it is really important to let people know that you are cooking fried
chicken at home and I am feeling awesome. Dang! I have 24 likes in my status
update in 30 minutes. Wow! I am so popular and I have such a great life.
Wait a minute, I need to take a picture of
what I am eating and then upload it in Instagram and tag it with #Food #FoodPorn
#Chicken #FriedChicken #Foodgasm #Delicious because hello !! I am a cool person
and I should definitely do that. Wow! 17 new followers in Instagram. My life is
getting so much better.
Since I am done with my dinner as well,
let me do some reading and I am really excited about reading this new mystery
novel which my Facebook friend recommended me to read so I am going to turn on
my iPad and read the eBook because I live in the 21st century and
paperback is for lame people. After reading it for a while, I turn on my laptop
again and do some creative games playing. Yes, Candy Crush is my thing, where I
am going succeed and rise up to the levels and send random candy crush and game
requests to all my Facebook friends no matter they play it or not.
So
after spending another hour doing that, it is already midnight and time to
sleep and turn off my virtual life so I shut down my laptop and go to bed where
I spend another one hour, playing with my phone, checking up all the social
media apps I have until I just fall asleep, with the phone in my hand,
completely chained to the virtual life of the Internet and social media, where
it is them who controls my life, not me.
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