Are you aware of this fact? You’re a drug addict!
“WHAT!” “REALLY!” How many ever exclamations you make, the answer is YES. “Cocaine addict?” NO. “Caffeine addict?” NO. “Then?” Social media addict.
As soon as you force yourself out of your bed, your hands make a frantic search for your mobile.
The smile when you get a hold of your phone is indescribable. Sticking your tongue out, you pose for a horrendous selfie with your heavy-eyed face. Without wasting a second, you upload it on Instagram following it up by innumerable imbecile hashtags that are not even related to the post. #Feminism, #BlackLivesMatter, #90skid, and the list goes on and on. If I continue listing them out, then this blog would go on for 100 pages.
After wasting hours on Instagram, you move on to Twitter. Twitter contains nothing but balderdash – it contains everything from Trump’s undecipherable cryptic tweets to stupid hashtags such as #PrayforNesamani and #RasodeMeinKounTha. There is always a huge war between Instagram and Twitter – the war of stupidity.
Then comes the hero of all social media applications – WhatsApp. A phone without WhatsApp is like a book without pages. You can’t find a single smartphone on Earth without WhatsApp. If you find one, I guarantee that your name would be printed on the front page of the Guinness Book of World Records.
After spending countless hours on all these social media applications, you realize that night has befallen you and hit the sack.
When social media is so addictive, is there a better word than “DRUG” to term it?
Pakshirajan from 2.0 observes all this from the heavenly skies. He surely does not like people enjoying their lives. Flapping his robotic wings, he descends down to earth. This time, he does not take away everyone’s phones, but he permanently removes all the social media applications present in every single device without anyone’s knowledge!
The next time you pick up your phone, you find something missing. Scrutinizing it carefully, you discover that all the social media applications on your phone are missing! You rub your eyes until they turn blood red. Yet, you don’t seem to find them. You pinch yourselves a MILLION times, thinking that it is just a nightmare. Yet, you don’t seem to find them. You stare at the screen with a gaping gob – its diameter bigger than that of the entire Milky Way Galaxy.
Out of sheer astonishment, you drop your phone. If it’s a Redmi phone, you’re done ?.
Everyone in this world would experience the same. Everyone would become a victim of fits, their hands and legs shaking to and fro like an atom in a solid substance that undergoes heating. But there is one good thing about this – people can become natural break-dancers just like that! No additional training is required!
On top of all that, there is one thing that is gonna bring your heart to your mouth. LIKES and FOLLOWERS. All the likes and followers that you earned up to date would just vanish into thin air. All your hard work would go in vain.
No social media means no interaction with ur besties. If you step out of your house with an idea to travel to ur bestie’s house, all you would see is a beefy, brutal policeman tapping his lengthy lathi in his hands, ready to bludgeon you at any time.
No one is a Buddha in the 21st century. People can’t sit in one place even for a minute. All they can afford to do is to roll from one end of the room to another, and that is what they would do when social media ceases to exist.
Though this has been slightly exaggerated (a lot in fact), this is how difficult life without social media would be.
Sushil Raaja. U – Grade-9
