THE LIKE ADDICTION

I am sure our future generations will remember this phase of Facebook and Twitter as an absurd era of immense addiction of our generation which completely got dependent on money making websites and virtual applications for self worth , emotional needs, friendships , adulation , importance , liking , bonding , exhibition , propagation and existence , where fake pictures replaced real humans and an unknown list of names was like real accumulation of prestige and power .... where intelligent designers of Facebook placed some psychological triggers on some buttons, like followers , friends , add friend ,Home ,like and status and at the click of a button one got a virtual high of getting something that takes a lifetime to achieve ..... everybody was virtually placed in the centre of the universe, with a crowd of names and random faces hovering around them, designed to make them believe they are too desirable , they have been discovered and they have arrived, a virtual emulation of stardom was innovated....

This site made everybody feel how it feels to be the centre of attention... without the effort of becoming one, to be followed, to be liked to be seen, to be heard, even a step ahead where you can delete the response you don't like and highlight and pin what gave you virtual joy and then go a step further and design an impression that you are so liked .... reality is ... people like to be heard more than being able to say ...... young girls have accumulated lakhs of FANS and subscribers by wearing the most inappropriate attitude (clothes I won't say else there would be a debate again) with a personal channel of gestures and body play and lakhs of men buzzing around to see them freak out or dance in a box and they felt they became stars without parents even understanding what is going on, they are happy because the daughter is claiming that Youtube has sent a letter of monetization (payment) for her talent ...... from a time when parents would take back the picture of their daughter if the marriage did not materialize to an era where uncountable men have subscribed to watch how good your daughter looks after taking a shower or in the swimming pool or cracking adult jokes dancing in her most comfortable dress, that child is made to feel her worth by the number of subscribers not by the skill that is supposed to be learnt , acquired or mastered.....boys like idiots scrolling fake faces all day long , themselves hiding behind fake names, fishing for girls believing they would trap some by their fake virtual presentation....liking became virtual , impressing became virtual and proposals became virtual so accepting became virtual , flirting and romance became virtual and breakups too not even realizing the worth of time and emotions they invested in the entire process that sometimes lasts for years...... in every house there is this outlet now and window opens for everyone .... 

Every couple wants the entire world to know that they have wished each other birthday, that they love each other, every son/daughter wants the entire world to know that they love their parents, people have to tell the world that their relationship is complicated when no one is asking , now everybody wants everyone to know which airport they are at and which mountain they are sitting on and feeling the breeze and want to show all unknown friends that they are celebrating something with their known friends, which restaurant they are sitting in and which cold drink they are sipping ....we have all gone nuts , become such jokers.......why this reassurance of our presence is so important...?.. We in a public place can't get our eyes off the phone , while watching movies , eating , exercising or in parks.......sitting among nature we are watching nature videos and in playgrounds we are playing videos games .........It is discourteous and hurtful when we keep checking phones when talking to someone but our bodies and minds have got badly programmed.We have become comic helpless addicts.....

Now selecting a life partner has become all the more difficult , there are options and options in the form of a whatsapp list , .....the day you fight with one , you block him in the application, not in the mind ....message 20 other people feeling you have OPTIONS and it is never true ....people are confused because , now virtual distractions never give you time to miss or value someone or feel a void .... people are so happy that they have OPTIONS to move on till they realize , a smiley, those forwarded shayaris, a good morning , a kiss emoticon didn't mean a thing...... now denying an emotion is as easy as disputing the meaning of an emoticon...

There are more entertainers now than viewers , people on Youtube are dying to make everything sensational , even deaths, accidents and unoriginal or false news to be able to get viewers .....such a madness to have likes and viewers .....I also find myself in this rat race now ..... every concept of practice, learning , education and experience of several years has gone down the drain, no one wants to work to prove themselves to experts everyone wants to accumulate unknown general mob, everybody has been given a wall and one account to impersonate a star instantly and everybody has got addicted to again and again experience the virtual feeling of being wanted, being liked , being heard.Crores of people are everyday getting up in the morning and first checking how many people liked and acknowledged their presence in this world , and that has become the basis of all their self worth and gratification ..... one word and one button that fueled every human's immense hidden desire and became the biggest reason for the success of Facebook was the LIKE button ....... it worked ......what a behavioural , psychological and social epidemic ... story of a race which tried to prove it was happening and was having fun but got more lonely and dissatisfied because their entire inner peace and joy got dependent on a virtual source that depended on others.They had lost the ability to be 'Liked' by themselves.Story of a race that kept searching life in a device, like an about to go extinct tribe searching for water in a desert, it seems like a destructive involuntary pattern......Our future generations would laugh ....I hope they do ........ 

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