TEENAGER TODAY

TEEN TODAY 

The teenager today has been lucky enough to be born in the era of commercialization. The world rests at his fingertips. Invading into today’s homes are gadgets, gizmos and stuff.

Multinational companies are busy inventing the next big thing in the market to compete with each other. Noise cancellation earphones, spy pens, the smartest smartphones, survelliance gadgetry and what not. Name it and they have it on offer. It seems the list won’t end.

Gizmos have made life a lot easier for the average teen. Then there are those lifestyle improvement gadgets which track various parameters about our health and help us modify our lives accordingly. They work day and night and some even wake us up at time in the morning monitoring our sleep cycles during the night.

 Samsung Gear Fit

These where the ones which are kind of helpful to us. But think of the other useless things. Today, on an average a person has two mobile phones. One can see even a paanwala thumbing at his touchscreen. What was earlier a flaunt toy possessed only by rich has now become accessory. In a fast world, mobiles are coming and going by the dozen. Teens too fall prey to catchy visuals and marketing and are always seen replacing old phones, devices, etc. keeping in pace with what is latest in the market.

But the gizmos do have a DOWNSIDE. They have not only made life a lot easier, they have also made it a lot lazier. We nowadays see teen diabetic patients courtesy a fast paced life coupled with combined effect of junk food and gizmos. We have moved on from family photos to selfies, and from full sentences to hashtags. Everyone seems to be in a hurry-burry to move ahead in the rat race and leave behind his next competitior.

Thanks to all our advanced gadgetry, we today live in a net of dangerous Electromagnetic Radiation, so deadly we risk ourselves to CANCER every day. Just take this into perspective. An average house has a fridge, TV, computer, and an AC if possible. The biggest demon is the mobile. It is constantly in touch with towers nearby and so is constantly emitting radiation. Even the other gadgets have to communicate amongst themselves, so they use EMR. It is very dangerous to expose oneself for long periods as it may lead to cancer in future.

The newspapers are filled with things like INTERNET ADDICTION, PHISHING, IDENTITY THEFT, TROLLING and other disturbing things. What on earth is internet addiction about? Why do we need de-addiction centres for that too? Do we not have brains? Sorry, our brains have been hacked into by Mr. Box - With - Brains

Facebook and Twitter (and the like) may have made the world smaller, but we have forgotten our neighbour because of our online friends. We remember the virtual world more than our local world.

I have personally not got any advantage from my Facebook account since I first created it. Perhaps only that you have liberty of expression – the other side won’t bowl you over. The interaction that used to exist a few years ago is absent. Teens keep glued to Facebook and forget about their bats and balls.

For them games mean Kinect, Nintendo, PSP and the others. They forget teenage is the period we ought to take good care of ourselves.

The world might have come knocking at our door, but it has bought both the good and bad with it. Some take everything in without basic filtering.

The result – we get a generation which doesn’t know about their neighbor, for whom because is bcoz (and yes it has happened even today) and who don’t care even if Voldemort comes to kill their neighbor. They do not care about General Knowledge; they just have a general knowledge of things.

I would thus request, or rather plea to the younger generation to stay away from ill- effects of ‘gadgetitis’ and emerge as fresh, smart, all-knowing leaders of tomorrow.

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