TECHNOLOGICAL DELUSION


With the advancement in technology, one would expect life becoming easier, people becoming more efficient but reverse seems to be the case, the invention of mobile devices like Smartphones  that were suppose to increase people’s efficiency is having a negative impact on (some of) them, we have people becoming more lazy, useful times that could be spent on developmental issues are wasted on mobile phones on not-so-important issues like chatting, downloading, uploading, reading unnecessary post, etc.
If you interpret this to mean that social networking is bad, you’re wrong. Chatting of course is a cheap means of  connecting people, what I am saying is that for a youth, spending too much time on this could be destructive especially when it begins to distract one from the original purpose of his/her existence(the worship of Allah(s.w.t)) or one gets addicted to it. Never has the use of social media been an indispensable criterion for success.
We have youths who can’t even control their use of mobile phones, they use them (unnecessarily) even on the street while they walk or in homes as they eat, as though that is not enough instead of spending their night taking account of how they had spent the day and planning for what is to come (the next day and beyond) or thinking about their development, they are back on the phone.
Instead of striving to get what they would require to succeed in life and prepare for what is to come(their future and most importantly the akhirah), they are found busy competing with their mates on who uses the most expensive things(games, mobile phones, etc), has the highest number of friends or followers on the social network, etc.
These are of the technological delusions, what do you say of the additive mobile games (the silent time-waster), mobile betting - an immoral at that has been placed at the doorstep of everyone , amongst other.
Technology came with both the beneficial and the destructive, it is for you to choose which path you want to tread, whilst there are people who use the mobile phone, for example, majorly for frivolous purposes there are others who use it to their advantage like in business, communication, learning, getting informed about happenings around them and beyond, awareness, etc.
Be wise in making your choice and choose consciously, for you may unconsciously if you don’t.
From the desk of a creative Muslim
Abdultoyyib ibn Musediq


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