Socially connected but Practically isolated

India has been emerging as one of the largest countries for Internet users rapidly for last few years and Internet has driven youth crazy. To all of us, it appears that it has become a human necessity like food, cloth, and shelter and it's like we can not live without it not even a single moment. Even a remote village across the country is not left with its outreach and it must penetrate in every pocket of the country as everybody has a right to enjoy the benefit of technological advancement and development. Today, almost everyone has a cell phone, an iPhone, and a tablet, even a kid is too smart to live without a smartphone and seems to be an expert in e-commerce, within few minutes he can review and rate an electronic product. A youngster has so many so-called virtual friends online but in real life is he/she fine? can't be said. He loves his own i-phone and tablet more than his parents, he is so attached to it if something goes wrong with these devices, he gets angry and becomes anxious instantly. 

                                                                                                             Now, we can share our views and opinion and all of us can have an exchange of information with each other instantly. Consequently, we feel connected and are closer to each other but it's not like that for instance, in country like India, every year migration takes place on a large scale in search of livelihood and opportunities, besides it nature of job profile also make them shift from one city to another one one the other hand, a large no of young and brilliant graduates go abroad to give a definite shape to their dreams  leaving their own loved ones. For some days, homesickness hits them like anything, they try to overcome it through audio and video chat but ultimately they fail to do so in a true sense. No doubt, Social media brought people closer together and shrunk the world as a global village. Today, everyone has an account on facebook, WhatsApp, Gmail, Instagram, Twitter, Google+, and, LinkedIn and nobody can deny this fact having it and may be having many more accounts. We can see each other over IMO, WhatsApp, and Skype but can't sit together, we can't have a tight hug with dear ones. no matter whatever human mind has created and invented but technology is not totally in tune with human needs and it has its own limitation technology it can not replace togetherness, emotion, expression. Emotion is an integral part of human lives. We can just watch our dear ones crying and having a free flow of tears from his or her eye but we can't stop it, we can't help them and appear to be helpless because of distance it's like a lifeless body is dying from a drop of water before us and we unable to do anything. Sometimes, we feel that we are using technology or technology is using all of us, it puts a question mark on us.

We can't have a couple of moment together with our family, neighbourhood and relative. We can have a long hour conversation over the phone we can't have a feel of touch. It's very ironical that nowadays parents live in one city, their children live in another city, and their grandchildren live somewhere else, every day all of them can talk over the phone continuously but they can not have dinner in the dining room, for that it's like they have to plan on some special occasion like recently, invented Mother's Day, Father's Day and Valentine Day which all of us we celebrate every year. No doubt, there is nothing wrong with expressing our love towards anyone but do we need a special day for all these stuff? we can celebrate it every day with our parents and beloved ones. In addition to it, a joint family has also disintegrated into a nuclear family due to the socio-economic condition. The principle of "three generation living under one roof " seems to be a utopian idea.  Late night, in hostels, students keep spending their time online living in a virtual world, even while sleeping time we keep checking SMS and gazing on blinking notification. Our parents spend their time watching Television alone and they fall as sleep in the night. Old age and loneliness have become a cause of frustration. Overall, we feel that isolation has become our daily celebration and what would happen to our next generation which is beyond our comprehension. In short, we are socially connected and practically isolated, as a result, all of us are losing a very valuable treasure which would be very difficult to recover.