Wednesday, 3 January 2018

Digital relationship of modern era

With the continuous progress and modernization of the society, everything around us seems to be becoming artificial. Unlike a decade ago friendship or relationship has got different shape altogether.  Few years back when relationship was only bound within text message and a few phone calls nowadays technology made it so accessible to us that couples barely feel the urge to see each other. As video calls, whatsapp, face book etc. have played a very vital role in connecting people and bridge the gap of distance through technology.

But on the counterpart this technological progress halted the true emotion in a relationship in twentieth century. Many websites and mobile apps have been introduced through which the young generation are trying to come into contact and sustain a stable relationship. It has kind of become a fashion rather a must- have- element for the young generations to have a partner in this era. I sometimes feel very happy seeing couples travelling on bikes especially on the celebrations like Durga puja when they seem to be full of boundless joy and on the edge of exploring the world. However, often their overwhelmed attitude leads them to trouble as we can often hear about bike accidents taking place and loose of young lives in those accidents. Such incidents are always painful and unbearably for parents and relatives of the victims.

While taking about relationship I must mention a few things and one of them is the tendency of our generation to express themselves beyond the real life hero and to be very honest even thou I belong to this generation but somehow can’t accept the mentality of being into a relationship the way I can often see on social medias.

 One of my recent experiences where I have seen an educated and well-established girl to open-up about her marital life problems on face book and the most awkward   thing was I knew that girl pretty well. I could never imagine in my wildest dream that a well-educated person like her can act so silly at times. The funniest matter is that few days later when I again came across her post on face book, understood that things have settled down in her life now and surprisingly.  The entire matter of her, from being into the worst convert into the best state of life went on less than a week. Hence it pretty much clarifies about the immaturity of the young generation who can’t even hold their emotion for a week and exposed every problem very nakedly which I believe could have been easily managed, given some time.   

I was also quite shocked seeing the entire exaggerating incident where her first ironical post on face book where she narrated about the tragedy of her life, her friends seemed to be very worried and showed their concern to the fullest. On the other hand her last post  astonished me, because the concern of her so-called feminist friends, who I believe without even knowing the exact scenario started to show-off their intellectuality in her first post, hadn’t even made the least effort to encourage her. Thus it really raised a question in my mind that such so called feminist people of our society do really want to fight for the exact purpose or it is just like an option to them to show themselves off on several social medias?

As I have mentioned above that although I am quite young and very much aware about the digital generation but can’t quite gel-well with the modern way of being into relationship through the help of several social medias. A couple of days back while travelling in a cab I was listing to a program on FM. The RJ of that show was famous producer of Bolloywood Karan Johar and the topic was about digital relationship, where people were expressing their views and experience about how things are changing with time. One of the callers on the program who was asking the host if there is any possibility of his teacher to be there on a social site and any possibility for him to date her. Sorry, but ‘I don’t actually remember the site name he mentioned’ but the reaction of karan was really funny when he heard that the guy fell for his teacher. Nonetheless just before wrapping up the program karan also expressed his concern about the digital relationship for which our next generation might be affected as the vibe of love or emotion is somehow detached in the relationship and people tend to consider break-up as a regular matter of their life. Thus the affection or true magnitude of concern in family won’t be the same as we can in our families nowadays.


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