Screen's Veil on Intellect: The Plight of the Young Generation
✍️ *Muhammad Saad*
Today, the world is rapidly advancing in the race of progress. Western nations are at the forefront of scientific inventions. New inventions are emerging every day, which have impacted every aspect of human life. In the battlefield, there has been a significant increase in atomic bombs, missiles, and other weapons, while airplanes, high-speed vehicles, and modern means of transportation have become available to facilitate travel.
Among these inventions that make daily life easier, a significant and prominent invention is the mobile phone. Undoubtedly, this device has shortened distances, turned the world into a global village, and made relationships and connections possible from one corner to another. *`However, this same mobile phone has profoundly affected human psychology, behaviors, and excessive dependence has also affected personal relationships, especially the younger generation.`*
*`Often, relationships are also affected by spending time on the screen and not paying attention to friends and relatives in their presence.`*
According to recent data, an average person spends an average of 4 hours and 37 minutes on their mobile phone daily. This time amounts to one day a week, six days a month, and approximately 70 days a year, meaning more than two months are spent just looking at a screen, which is regrettable.
During these moments, various social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp, YouTube, and Telegram are commonly used. These platforms are negatively impacting the intellectual level of the younger generation. Constant screen time, rapid content consumption, and unnecessary distractions are weakening the attention, contemplation, creativity, and serious study habits of young people, and the worrying thing is that they don't even realize it.
The need of the hour is for young people to focus their attention and energies on activities that contribute to their intellectual, academic, and moral development, so that they live in the world not as followers but as leaders, and others follow their lead in research and inventions.