Padili James Mikomangwa
Information has been vital to the human race regardless
of occupation, creed nor societies cultural aspects, the capability of
acquiring necessary and vital information has never been obsolete and will not
any time soon. The media platform has experienced a lot of changes for the past
decades, where by technology has been shaping the way information is gathered,
managed, prepared, disseminate to the respective audience and interpreted by
the very huge audience with variety of ideas, skills and thinking capability.
Exploring the current global technological development
on social related issues, the discovery and emergence of social media platforms
have brought intensive changes to human beings of vast scales from
communication behaviors to the way people react to several topics raised.
Social media is a creative solution brought to life in 1970’s and took charge
fully in 1995 that provides virtual communication accessibility to millions of
users across the globe. Billions of people access various of social media
outlets on daily basis, from Facebook, Youtube, Wechat to Whatsapp Messenger.
Now more than ever our need for updated information is
great and results into emergence of unconventional way of presenting it. As
technological advancement paves the way of social media to be integrated into
our daily routines the more we open up to it the more it shapes us unwillingly
and swiftly. Across the world people create and share various sorts of images,
short video clips and messages for the sake of information dissemination,
nothing is wrong with that, but when the core values of humanity are faded away
by the convergence of information dissemination then something is totally wrong.
Humanity can be known as the virtue associated with
basic ethics of altruism desired for human condition, where by innately it is
integrated and induced in us by nature and we all know by one way or another
humanity value as a race. I strongly believe that social media outlets with
their unique designed features were set out for the mass to connect people more
closely and virtually communicate things regardless of existing technological or
physical hindrances compared with the old media dominance.
Exposing the reality on the table, before we had
Whatsapp Messenger apps on our beloved attention grabbing smart phones, we had
respect for the afflicted and suffering gave them a hand, restored their faith
and swept away courage, whilst keeping their pain a secret to preserve their
respect for the rest of the society that might be not humane enough. Just not
long ago our cultural aspects kept the youth in line and maintained order
within our communities, opposite to that our contemporary society works
differently now, if one surveys around the major four social media platforms Facebook, Youtube .
Whastapp Messenger and Instagram might find a chunk of disturbing data far
beyond imagination. Nudity, profane and cliched statements, horrific images and
short video documented by amateurs to boost their online attendance rates up
for their video to go viral (I wonder if most of us know even what that means).
We are no longer social again compared to the last
decades, people might be in a room but do not talk any thing of sense because
their phones take over, we seldom share our feelings verbally now days,
Instagram and Whatsapp Messenger status got us covered on that. Funny enough in this era of unprecedented information sharing we fail to distinguish between free speech and utterance of complete blabber We are no
longer interested in real criticism, page and video views likes , dislikes,
thumbs up and thumbs down represent the entity of what is and what is not. Bear
in mind that these virtual criticism abilities do not really reflect the brutal
truth, they are merely digital operations with no life in them. Much worse a
good number of people take them serious and they are transforming the way we
think and act on all major life scales.
Vital humane characters get fewer and fewer to majority
of smart phone users, most of the unskilled thinkers don’t fathom the power of
person to person interaction and the need to adopt isolation of things related
people lives from sharing and modifying information via their chaotic personal digital
platforms. People now days don’t bother to double check information they read,
see or hear as longs as it came from their desired trusted source. Let us bear in mind the fact that, social
media has no editorial figures, no information gate keepers, few policies and
privacy terms are observed when people have crossed lines way over their depth and
more than once.
In Tanzania there is a rampant rise of unskilled,
unconventional and fact less self appointed online political commentator plus activists.
These intellectual mobsters rob people of their reasoning ability and dictate
the way opinions are laid over pertaining particular topics especially those
which shape the news. No more exhaustive
thinking due to easy access of information at our finger tips, we do not place
our digital devices aside and examine those videos we receive hourly if they
are worst of our phone storage. Our need to make every day count has been divorced.
By just assessing
the traffic found within these apparatus, time invested in them plus the nature
of information shared worldwide, we find how much we have embedded our selves
into a gigantic scheme that robs us of few vital acts of kindness to the human
race that nourishes our minds capability to contemplate complex subjects, soul
and the body at large.
So far I find social media outlets usage to a large
extent to be more instant gratifying and less helpful, generous, caring,
sympathetic to the human good cause. We depend so much on prepared information
for our consumption which by the way is not filtered and sad enough we barely
even scratch it too see if logic, facts, relevance and respect to the human
life is within them.
We have built a tolerance for foolish things circulating
amidst of our social media platforms which I believe pose a great advantage if
used wisely, this tolerance has numbed us and paved a way for a new way of
thinking and reacting to imminent matters that require a deep understanding
of things, quite contrary to that we have left poorly learnt, read and unconventional
writers to think for us and relay their decayed thoughts for our attention, to
which we react like savages when critical issues are presented to us with no
order, facts and far less evidence to back them up.
With time spent on our devices, so the ability to think
exhaustively and critically fades away. Everything we need to explore and put
thing together for a concise understanding is out in the open, human to human
experience, observing the natural setting, meditation expands our touch with
the world in a holistic dimension. Technology has immensely improved, saved and
changed people’s lives. Remarkably there has been huge and vast changes to the
human life due to technology, however when technology doesn’t sustain the human
mind cognitive ability, nourish physical well being nor preserve one’s soul from
utter destruction then it is far from humanity.
We are faced with an array of attention requesting
matters just to list a few, climate change, poverty, environmental degradation,
crime, diseases the list goes on and on, I strongly believe social media
rubbish that doesn’t make us more brilliant in any aspect of our lives should
be stranded on the spot, in this 21
century world every second counts and we are a click or swipe away from
richness or impoverishment, order or chaos, utter nonsense and intellectually
driven facts/statements as well as savagery or humanity.
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