Alexander Graham Bell invented telephone in the year 1876, and in India, it was launched in 1882 but was rarely found. Later on, when mobile phone arrived to India in 1995, it started becoming the necessity and entered into every household and eventually to every pocket.
It took a while to reach the state of Jammu and Kashmir, and was launched in j&k in the year 2003 by former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who received the first call from the then chief minister Late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. In J&K: from the inception, mobile phone is drastically influencing our lives, it acquaints us with worldly affairs and sensations, and our youth, especially, adopt the foreign lifestyle. Disregarding the traditional cultures, we switch into western demo. However, the phone saves a lot of time and efforts but it has proved hazardous as well. It has degraded our social relations; Most of us prefer to reach our relatives via a phone call rather than visiting their home. The love and affection for each other has disappeared. These days mobile phone in one’s hand seems to him or her everything, even we don’t spare the phone in front of our parents and remain affixed to phone only, we are using it ruthlessly without taking care of the mandatory respect that our elders deserve. Mobile phone has perhaps decreased the distance in between us but unfortunately, it had taken away the love and respect.
Our youth and particularly students’ using their cell phones at public places carelessly often stumble with barriers, at times it results into an accident. Despite having their earphones in, out bursting sound, wafts around and disturbs the people. Where has gone that honor towards our good society our religion. Once I asked a person why you are using cell phone most of the time, his bold reply came, “I am enjoying with it, and taking a lot of knowledge from it.” When asked how much time you spend with you parents he replied, “Only when i eat dinner with them.” These are very unfortunate stories, which resonate all the day, and this applies to most young boys, an egoist and arrogance among 21st century boys and girls is keeping them out of the table of love, respect, honor, and dignity towards our elders. There is dire need to council our wards softly, and if needed harshly to get rid of the misuse of mobile phone. Unless and until we do not come forward to end this the ruthless use of smart phones, we cannot expect any better from youngsters. As, we all know that mobile phone has a limitless positive impacts as well as negative. So, Invention of mobile phone was not wrong, it was for the benefit of humans, but the way we use it has belittled its benefits. To keep all its negative impacts at bay we need educate the people to use this mobile phone smartly.
(The author is a freelancer. His views are personal)
