It All Starts With LOGGING OUT

Before you start reading this, I suggest you Logout.

Is social media the reason students are becoming more and more anti-social? I have walked in the computer lab at different times of the day on different days. At almost every moment, there is a student with eyes glued to a computer screen, surfing the net.

It’s virtual reality that draws students to social media. They spend more time on the internet and less time actually living. I think that at this very moment several students on campus are stuck at their computer desks glued on a social networking site. I believe the most appropriate word for this behaviour would be anti-social. I am part of the crowd who are always busy doing something on the World Wide Web. It’s like a disease. It’s everywhere; cell phones, on our laptops and with the all access Wi-Fi, it makes it harder to escape.

 I am always complaining about anti-social behaviour, and yet who is going to approach me with a phone stuck to my ear?

What happened to face-to-face interaction? Isn’t it important to interact outside of “virtual reality”? Aren’t we supposed to be real people? It could be the lack of well-organised social events on campus or a fear of socialising. It seems to me that my fellow students are unable to connect and interact with others outside of the lecture rooms. If social events were scheduled and frequent, they would spend less time on social media. We need to get up and break the ice with one another. Instead of waiting for events to happen, we need to create their own activities.

There is a life outside of the small glowing box.

Get up, start socialising, get out your virtual reality, and start living your own. My message is clear don’t wait for Tom and Stanley to create events make it happen. “GET OFF THE INTERNET”.