Disclaimer: The things written and included in this blog are completely my personal experiences and feelings and the purpose of writing this blog is not to slander any person, thing, or organization, if someone thinks that is written like that, I urge you to understand that it is my personal experiences and feelings.
As I am growing in the village area in the middle-class family. It was a time of 2061-62 B.S. when I was 2-3 Years old the mobile phones are not so much popular in the village area that day. There were about 10-12 Simple Mobile phone set in the village where their population was about 400-600 and house about 100-150. In my house there is also a landline phone set. So, I am familiar with the Electronic Device like Landline phone and my parents simple mobile phone set in the starting era of the cellphones in the rural areas. On those days, I feel very much entertaining and have fun on playing games like Snake and Tetris on my parents’ phones. It was a kid I was just 3 or 4 years old.
When I was reading on 2 or 3 class, it was a time of 2066-67 B.S., my father bought a laptop, but my father and me both doesn’t know how to use it. My father bought it because of seeing it from his friends who was using the laptop at that time. I have no idea about how to use it. On that time there is no Internet, No Google, No YouTube and others platform for searching, how to use a laptop. So, we decided to keep it without using it for a year. That was the first time a see a laptop.
When I was in class 4, It was a time of 2068 B.S. Our School started to taught the computer and bring a computer. On Listening that news, I am very much excited and happy to study the computers rather than any other subject like, science, English and Nepali. I have seen the printer first time at class 4. I read the printed books but I don’t know how the books got printed. I learn’ t printing on class 4. At that time, I know about mobile data, but I haven’t seen touch screen mobile also on that time. I know we can also use mobile date on the mobile phone if there were a browser application, at that time the Chinese mobile phones set have a feature of Browser and Camera on mobile phone and these types of smart phones supports 2G mobile network technology. At that time the Facebook users grows slowly and some of the people of my village started using Facebook. At the new things are coming, I was so much excited about that and created my First Facebook Account (The Account which I was Using Now, with the help of those people who are using Facebook at that time. As I remember those days, it the internet takes too much times to upload a profile picture (the size of just 2 or 3 KB). What about the uploading of video you should just imagine about that situation. But at that time my mobile phones don’t support the uploading of video.
As I was studying in class 5, it was 2069-70 B.S, in my home there was a touchscreen smart phones and that was a time I saw a touch screen smart phone on my home, it supports a 3G mobile data connection, but you know the situation of village areas, the network sometimes behaves like 3G, some times 2G and Sometimes No Internet. The Mobile Data was much more unstable at that time.
As I move to Ghorahi to started studying in Grade 6. I saw a computer with better stable internet connection than the place where I live before. In our school, there is a Wi-Fi technology, that time I saw a Features of Wi-Fi on my parents’ smart phones but doesn’t know it uses. At that time, I don’t know “What is Wi-Fi? “, “How to Use It?”, “What is the use of it?”, as there is no thing about the name of Wi-Fi in my village areas. So, I feel that I am a person who doesn’t know anything about the modern world. At that time, I have no smartphones, I have just had a keypad phone on which I recharge it, take mobile date and use it for getting the latest news updates happening around the world using Google search. At that time the data package was so much expensive. It costs around Rs 40-50 for data package of just 100-200 MB. My brother who was reading in class 8 when I was reading in class 6 at that time, he told me about the Knowledge of Wi-Fi and on every Saturday when we are free, we go to the place where Wi-Fi available like Cyber, Friends, Home and others places. We go there for playing games on computer, scrolling Facebook posts, watching YouTube video, surfing Google and twitter. As I was familiar with Facebook only, after the entry of the Wi-Fi on my mind I am familiar with YouTube and Twitter. It provides us entertainment and fun so that we have a routine on every Saturday to go to cyber and other places where Wi-Fi Are available and watch YouTube videos. I also remember one funny incident, one of the teachers of our school told my brother and other students to create an email account my sending mail to me. Then my brother and I went to the cyber to open email account. It that time we are very confusing, we search “How to create and email account?”, It gave a result of “Gmail and Yahoo Mail” We think it is different than email, and now let’s you Guess that, “How am I?”.
As the time rapidly grows up, I Change my keypad mobile phones to touchscreen smart phones. Slowly, it makes me a habit of using mobile phones social media like YouTube Facebook, Twitter, by taking mobile data at home and on Saturday we go the cyber and other places where Wi-Fi Are Available. I don’t think It makes me addicted one day by Scrolling Facebook / Twitter and Watching YouTube Videos and make me difficult to get rid of it.
As I am Studying in class 9, I Created a YouTube Channel Named “Sandesh Acharya”. It was about 5 Years Now; I created a YouTube channel. It thinks it was a shortest time that I having using a Facebook, but it was too many years (about 10 years) till now. The use of Internet and social media was like my daily routine like Watching and Scrolling YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok rather than doing other works. Nowadays, people are very busy in scrolling Facebook, chat and video calls with each other, making TikTok videos and Watching YouTube videos and wasting their valuables time of their life.
From the era of Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, WhatsApp, Viber, Signal, Imo, to the era of ChatGPT (AI) which can provide and solves complex problems within a second which make our work faster and easier by making our smart mind to a dull mind with Intelligence and Smart Phones and AI Tools.
“Social Media is Just a medium but Nowadays many Peoples Becomes the medium of Social Media “
Smartphones and social media, enabled by AI technology, have also raised significant health concerns. And the excessive use of it leads to mental health issues like anxiety and depression, as well as physical problems such as eye strain, sleep disturbances, and musculoskeletal disorders. As the social media are using AI algorithms Nowadays and contributing to personalized content which can create echo chambers, reinforcing divisive opinions. Additionally, targeted advertising can compromise privacy, and the spread of misinformation affects public health decisions. So that to get rid of these problems, I will like to discontinue the social media and getting back to the era of ‘Nokia C2’ on which I has only a phone calling features using mobile networks. On thinking more, I have one Sentence which will always turn around my mind was, “Smart by Your Mind Not by a Mind of Smart Phone Which Was Created by a Mind of Smart People to make their life more comfortable”.
Do You Know the Facts that, “People Who Develop social Media Can’t use the social media too much like us?”. Can You Try to Found out the answer of this question?
“One thing kept in mind that, the mind of smart people changes the era of Facebook to ChatGPT and ‘Nokia C2’ to Intelligence Smart Phones. Neither intelligence ChatGPT not smartphones Are changing this era.”
If You try to make the smart phone / ChatGPT smarter than your mind by using it, Now You May be at a ⚠️Danger Zone. So, use social media, not to be used by social media
Now, Questioning Yourself!! and Realized Yourself!!
11. Am I Using social media ?? or social media is Using Me??
22. Am I using my Smart Brain ?? or Using my Smart Phone / Chat GPT Brain??
Note that, the above questions were very simple but it will give you a deep meaning if you understand the meaning of the questions. Think an answer taking time to found its actual meaning. I think many of you found the answer. Tell me the answer you have found by calling me via mobile numbers.
Only, after the 3 weeks I have found an answer that, social media is using me and I am using my smart phone brain.
“Smart by Your Mind Not by a Mind of Smart Phone Which Was Created by a Mind of Smart People to make their life more comfortable”.
So that, I discontinue using all the social media (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp, Viber, Signal, Threads and so on), and back to the previous era which was extraordinary and that was the era of kid, which I was talking about. I want to go back to the age of 2061-62 B.S. Which was very interesting moment for me. Without answering the following questions and taking the decision on my own and I think it will be the right decision on me on right time, no matter whatever others says?
11. Would I be alone on the race??
22. What modern people think about me??
33. Did I take the wrong decision??
At the end of this blog, I do not personally suggest stopping the social media, but those people who reads this blog and stops using it by finding the answer which I got after 3 weeks. I welcome you to join with me and others members on real world society not in virtually social world.
If you think social media is helpful for you for making your daily routine easier, continue using it, but if “you are used by social media stops using it ??”. Remember that point, so open your eye on time ?? realizing the previous mentioned questions, I Would Like to Re-mentioned these questions here again.
11. Am I Using social media ?? or social media is Using Me??
22. Am I using my Smart Brain ?? or Using my Smart Phone / Chat GPT Brain??
Note: With this first and last blog posted on social media, I will discontinue from the virtual society and join the real-world society.