Sunday, August 19, 2012

The World Of Digital Fallacy

Why people feel so disconnected from the rest of world even though living in the world of non-stop digital connectivity? Here are the highlights about myths falsely associated with paradoxical reality of virtual world.

You may have been well aware of the recent brutal incident committed by psycho-maniac white supremacist, James Holmes from USA. The guy, once self-possessed and promising student of neuroscience, turned out to be king of terror when he stormed into Denvar based theater at midnight and shot dead 12 and injured many moviegoers who were watching the premier show of Dark Knight Rises. The intention behind the carnage was revealed by the perpetrator on his first court appearance. Other than his being racist, what took the world by surprise was his loneliness and utter hypersensitive activities caused by addiction to virtual world.

The virtual world that we seem so fascinated with is just a mirage where relationship resides in figment of people's imagination. Surprisingly, today’s digitally connected people are far more alienated and insecure than they were in past. Their numbers are far greater than the patients of life-threatening diseases. Social media sites are just infertile places where friendship never blooms on practical ground. More so, net-connected people are insecure and very hypersensitive. Health experts opine that those, who are highly extrovert and lively on Facebook, happen to be the worst loner in real life!

Addiction to facebook or social media websites contributes significant reduction from people’s forging social interactions. If they are not navigated sagaciously, one may end one’s self-entity gradually. It works like a slow poison. Health experts say, those with Dissociative Identity Disorder, are prone to be mislead by the dangerous world of web.

Virtual world is nothing but just a technologically generated platform where love, trust and warmth of relationship are devoid. Additionally, if life sucks owning to inevitable challenges like sufferings, diseases and insecurity etc. no virtual friend would ever turn up to provide pep talk, guidance, sympathy and emotional supports in reality.

A state of prolonged loneliness is symptomatic sign of patient’s developing quandary to distinguish between fiction and reality. More importantly, the patient has developing urge to stay disconnected from people around. At a time, when panic assaults, the impersonal virtual world seldom provides peace and comforts to the victim.

Loneliness is also attributed to problems on family and social fronts. Hypersensitive children under disturbed family tend to be hostile in response. The symptom develops gradually with patient’s growing addiction to digital gizmos and world on web. Being failed to distinguish between fiction and reality, the patients tend to personify them with the virtual world. This outcomes a number of psycho-maniac activities, most of which have the innocent pay their lives for.

Though words are mine, the concept of the article is borrowed from TOI newspaper

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