I didn't write in my blog since a long time, maybe because I intended to stay a while away from the Internet and its miserable life, maybe because I can't share my posts anywhere anymore, so I decided to get back this time with a deeper post that the one I wrote about the world without Facebook or Whatsapp.
Since the early beginning of the 20th century and specifically after the world war II, the world started changing and taking another turn towards modernization and life interrelated with technology, how to explode a bomb from far away, how to fight with another country without even taking your army to the enemy's territory, all those ideas about wars, global destruction and so on led governments and politicians to think about technology and how its impact may help destroying your enemy and never hear about it again. Others took the technological path but in a much way better manner, they tried all their best to turn life into more tech-oriented, like clapping your hands to turn the lights on, turn calculator to a digital one and also to perform multi-linear functions in a click of your finger, they were also seeking to turn televisions into more bright and colorful sets, to entertain people and make them enjoy the time they spend at home, turning into cars and how the gadgets started turning digital, how a car can spot the deer crossing the road at late night with the infra-red camera, all those ideas where just dreams and craziness until they came to real life, moving on with time till we reached the birth of the computer and portable phone.
Since the 70s and 80s we started to make rough calculations on the computer and also have a soft and hard copy of the information we were calculating, we started using phones while crossing the streets and on the plane, we started having a tool to talk to our families while being on a camp or in the desert enjoying the sun and fire at night. All people thought that this is the highest peak of technology and that all inventors and freaks stopped working as nobody imagined that technology could go further and more tools get created and go intro production. Till one day the world started taking a decision to connect all these computers and mobiles using a net, called the internet, how you can communicate with a cool girl in Russia without even leaving your apartment in Uganda, you can even access your computer left at work from the computer your have at home, inventors didn't have enough, till they started creating smartphones, having all the data on your computer between your fingers in a very small handy tool, you can let go maps, cassettes, camera, radio, calculator, computer and so on as you have a smartphone replacing all those products.
Technology was invented to be helpful to mankind and turn complex situations and calculations to easy ones, till the day they started Facebook, twitter, Whatsapp, Hi5,
all those sites were new ideas to the mankind, how can I chat while watching a video, sharing a post, and listening to a song on a single site ? how communication got to easy, even easier than the days we had the MSN messenger, that chatting tool that really impressed the world is an old classy one today, it is not cool anymore as facebook and twitter.
Let's forget about history and that long introduction, and start getting deeper into the main idea with a list of simple facts that I bid they are all real,
Does anybody care about calling you anymore when you get offline on whatsapp or your were last seen 10 days ago ?
Does anybody care about the way look, felt sick or depressed without sharing a post of Facebook ?
Can anybody know that your grandmother passed away, your leg got broken, you lost all your contacts, you hit your car without updating your Facebook status ?
Do you even read or watch videos without logging in to Facebook and checking your newsfeed ?
Can you travel and stay from the internet more than a couple of days ? running fast to hit the online button when you come home from a long trip ? You can't wait to see who posted on your wall, and then get depressed that you got nothing as people forgot as you were offline.
Does anybody remember your birthday without checking facebook ? Only your family, best friend and maybe your teacher will, but nobody else as you don't have a facebook account or deactivated it for any reason.
You always state the boring time you spend with your parents when traveling or camping, maybe cause the internet is not working on your Iphone ? and then feel depressed when your mom or dad pass away, feeling guilty that you didn't spend enough time with them before they day, because you were just chatting with the group to stay connected and cool enough for a hot girl to notice you.
Facebook, whatsapp and all those communication tools took more space than we all imagined, they were just invented to turn messaging and chatting easier and in a cooler way, but we didn't know how to use it, till the shareholders of that monster called Facebook knew how to invest more and turn Facebook into addiction, and maybe, a drug.
You are just a point in a virtual life, that is not even real, you didn't even exist without Facebook or whatsapp, nobody with hear about you if you are offline, nobody will search and look for or after you. You see life through walls, they high-dam in Egypt, the great wall of China, and even the new park across your block only through pictures posted on blogs and facebook, you don't move anymore or take any step to explore life and be part of the change, to travel the world or even your city and country to see new and cool places, you don't even workout even though you enjoy watching those fitness videos on youtube, you got stuck in your bed between the comfy pillows and have no more interest to get out of the circle, you are dead.
I deactivated my Facebook account, deleted my whatsapp account, normally i felt lonely in the early beginning but now I am feeling better, I am doing a lot of things that i didn't find time for as i was spending plenty of hours chatting with fake people and checking some silly pictures to like and share, I knew the real friends who respect me and ask about me regularly, I know how to use the internet more effectively, how to search for new ideas, new information about our world, science, history and so on.
I've only got my blog now, I know that those words won't reach even a slight percentage of the number of readers i used to have on facebook, but i am feeling better, and I will always share my ideas till i form a new group of better thinkers and thankful people,
Try deactivating your account for a couple of days, I am not convincing you to delete it, but try life as the old school type,
Take me back to the 90s :)