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Our children should’nt be possessed by the internet

Writer:
Regina El Ahmadieh

#Cyberspace is characterized as a space for all segments of society to fly. Anyone who wants can travel through his electronic device to all countries of the world, learn about their cultures, interact with their people, order their products, and learn their languages. There is no obstacle that limits the capabilities of the user of #technology, except a fragile screen, the presence of which is not a barrier or an obstacle to the individual’s feelings and emotions.

As much as we are amazed by these extraordinary digital capabilities, which have enabled us to enjoy our lives while perhaps between four walls, the price of this entertainment will be high. And here we are paying it with our health, our mind, our psychology, our money, and most dangerously our children. How? A question with a thousand answers, and the following is even greater.

In front of the screen, some of us have become #digital_addicted, neglecting our health and family and holding our breath to inhale the #Internet. Others are victims who presented themselves on a wire platter to a hacker or social engineer who blackmails, threatens, and bargains. Another shows his child with his movements, first words, and steps, and creates an account for him in his name and information, publishing his pictures and whereabouts, disregarding human values ​​and individual rights, to raise a generation from the Internet and to the Internet that will return. When he is able to use #electronic_means on his own, he becomes wandering in a #cyber_world that knows no shame. He does not appreciate the consequences and does not care about ages and feelings.

Indeed, our children are not ours, but they are the children of the #Internet, so we can no longer sit and talk to them. To find out what they are doing and going through, we turn into hidden investigators. We monitor their phones, spy on their conversations, flip through what they have recently browsed, and monitor their situations, words, and actions to find out if they have been exposed to anything bad. The situation is difficult when we realize that we are contributing to the creation and upbringing of a generation that does not know how to write but rather click on buttons, does not know how to draw a letter but only its shape, does not know physical expression but rather knows which symbol to send, whether funny or sad. Will there be a generation that does not know how to speak but only read silently in the future? Will there be a generation of paralyzed humans unable to move except with their fingers and eyes?

The seriousness of the life we ​​and our children are living is breathtaking. Confronting its threat to them with a bolt of blackmail, threats, autism, introversion, and other psychological and physical problems will enable us to inhale and stop exhaling.

So we will be, or return for once and for the last time, parents who are worthy of raising a healthy, social child. He falls on the dirt while playing with his ball with the children of his neighborhood and his family, and does not fall victim to a cyber disaster while playing with his electronic game with those he does not know at all. He can run from his home to the store at the end of the street to buy what he needs. He does not go beyond virtual miles to download a game application from across the seas, but let him be a human being through and through and not a moving robot programmed at the whim of the programmers.

We support our children’s interaction with the cultures of the entire universe and their involvement in all social situations, but not cyberspace. Everything that is tangible is real, and much of the publication may be fabricated and false. Let us realize the importance of the human being and enhance his human capabilities so that #technology is a means that we can control and not control us.

  

 

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