Virtual or Real????

Virtual or Real????

By the time the grand generation get out of their sleep, the young cubs are set to update their status on the social networking sites, after changing numerous display photos( pics, to be more precise).

The display pic rather ‘dp’ change is a usual compulsory task to do almost every hour of the day. As facebook, twitter, myspace are the major status symbols of today’s generation at their own hubs.

This internet-led generation, have enough time to crop and edit their most latest funky photos besides of numerous pending assignments. The sleeping sessions of parents are been transformed by their net-kiddies into busy facebook session at which they increase and share their slang knowledge and virtual word usage like ‘att’, ‘OK REPORT’, sirraa, awsm, beuful, gr8, suppa duppa lyk, and many more.

Going online, passing slangs in the most latest facebook-born words on the cropped outdoorsy friends(‘frenz’) pictures, accepting and adding of newones to the 500plus lists, changing the relationship status to comitted from single, then married and lastly complicated are all important parts of working schedule of every school and college going youngster.  This generation is willing to loose grades in exams, miss schools, and family hours, but can’t take a second out of their virtual world at any cost.

No doubt, punching a single wall post is the most easiest way to communicate, with hundreds of friends, building up of bridges between several kilometers apart buddies. But this need have been heading to an addiction for the young minds. Such sites ban, in a country like China, is one of the factor of their growth in every sector. The frequent backdrops of today’s generation in moral values, curriculum, aggravating languageusage, irresponsibility are all the preliminary symptoms of this virtual addiction. This addiction can lead to fatal failures also. These networking ties can rise crime rates to the worst. As this could bring the youngsters and schoolaties prone to stranger elements and can become major crime targets. The sharing through these websites can bring easy availability of softer targets around the region for the crime heads. A keen check by the senior generation can though lessen such fear. This can lessen the differences between the generations and leading to minimise the gaps. Also the youngsters can be uplifted from the virtual addiction to serious education.

Parneet Kaur  ( MJMC 1,116)