WE NEED TO EXERCISE OUR BRAINS

Sir,

When it comes to some things, old school is best. We can all remember a time when cellphones weighed as much as bricks, computers were the size of rooms and our biggest thrill was plotting to steal the neighbour’s plump, juicy fruits that were in season.

This was a simple time, but now in our digital world, our children are camping in front of TVs, numbing their imagination and decreasing their outdoor activity, which also subliminally doubles as great exercise. We are attached to our phones like they are an evolutionary adaptation only present within our generation.
Dating in a digital world is in the same breath, easy and difficult.

Glorious

Easy because once you’re basking in the glorious feels of your new found love, communication should be simpler with WhatsApp and emails.
You can be talking to your lover on different platforms at the same time. You would think this would lead to stable relationships. Not necessarily, and I believe the real reason is in as much as you talk to your lover from sunrise to sunset, you are not having the right conversations. The problem with text is that it barely communicates emotion.

Look, cheating is first and foremost always a choice. But we can’t ignore just how easy stepping out is. This is because contact is immediate and direct. One can meet online, begin a relationship without having ever met and erase all evidence of the interaction.

Disrespect

Investing in an affair is a quick-fire text while sitting next to your partner. Yes, for some the disrespect runs that deep. You may think this argument is not valid, but I believe the admin of cheating for our ancestors with no cars or cellphones demotivated them. Now you can jump into a car and come over or be ‘working late’.

I understand that one can store tons of books on this one gadget or e-books on the computer. I’m yet to subscribe to this digital advancement, mainly because I cannot part with intimacy of feeling the pages, the suspense as you turn a page and the physicality of a book in general creates a long- lasting effect. Interacting with a book seems warmer than flipping through a bland screen.

Dear so-called journalists, our Facebook statuses or Twitter timelines are not for you to plagiarise and reprint as stories. Get it together. We want real stories, verified stories. You’re hurting the journalistic integrity of your publications.

It’s disrespectful to utilise the content we create as audiences as basis for your stories. Stop being lazy, the internet is a tool that you can use to do your job, not thieve from us.

Misspelt

When was the last time you had to manually count something? Or spell a word out loud? We have autocorrect for misspelt words and calculators that do the work for us. We need to exercise our brains somehow.

Do that crossword puzzle just to halt the process of our brains collecting dust sooner than before because we just do not stretch it. Also, does this mean we are creating future generations that will be dumped because technology will do everything for them?

Z N

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