When John started using the internet
earlier in the year 2008, he didn’t know that he could be another item in the
statistics of unfairness.
Adding to the fact that he had just sat for
his KCSE exams in the previous year and was now in preparation to join a higher
learning institution, he opted to use the internet as the platform where he
could find a prestigious, and not only that, a world class institution of
higher learning from where he could sharpen his skills in business management.
It is barely seven years now and meet John
walking along the streets of Kisumu city, a face of “nothing is good about the
world” is the display on the face of a young energetic man that once was. He
had his large share and taste about the internet and at long last, he became a
statistical item! What of you?
The internet, though has the ability to
rename the world from the ‘Globe’ to ‘the global village’ must be handled with
a lot of sobriety. Usually composed of materials that one can use in spending
time, from games to chat rooms and different sites for meeting new friends, the
internet as a program designed by a human brain can never be smarter than the
human being. As photojournalists say “the camera can never be smarter than the
photographer”.
Twitter, a communication site which is
currently highly populated and a site that only allows for expression of the
users view in just a maximum of one hundred and forty characters is the talk of
the day and has even taken over as the platform for obtaining news quickly.
Though it has advantages, the harm it causes is irreversible. Just ask me where
I learnt LMAO, LOL and many other acronyms and believe me, the answer I know
just as I knew how to suck my mamas breasts.
“The
internet is just the disability that limits our ability”
Being diagnosed of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
had never been parts of the dreams of he who was once a flamboyant young man –
John, but the milk is spilt and all he has to do is to re organize the pieces
of what life has left for him. Dry eyes, strained vision is all John can do.
Not that he is myopic, but that’s all the pay he’s got from the internet
addiction.
Most youths engage in cybersex addiction,
also known as internet pornography and this basically leads to negative real –
life intimate relationships. The excessive use of face book and different
platforms for making new friends obviously leads to information overload
whereby one is subjected to less social interaction with family and friends.
The internet is not only associated with cybersex but a variety of negative
impacts on the human health.
Anxiety, a condition that can compel one to
expel his/her patience is also a driving force to high internet consumption
with greater impact on the excessive email checking and compulsive internet
use. Anxiety also makes one take too much time on the internet and this may
lead to depression and even turn things from worse to worst.
Back aches, neck aches and severe headaches
are some of the associate effects of high consumption of the internet. Being
the platform where celebrity endorsements are currently prevalent, many people
who largely consume the internet find it very difficult to complete tasks at
work.
I came to realize that most of the affected
persons are those who realize that they are less socially active than they were
before. This makes them to be isolated from family and friends and they then
try to find compensation from the internet.
Though many may see the internet as the
only item that makes the world a village, but I must never be a victim of
circumstances just as John was. Browsing the net isn’t a crime but being a
slave to the net is. The internet is just the disability that limits our
ability.
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