The purpose of having telephones and tablets is for communication. With the help of the social media, these gadgets have become powerful tools for communication and research. However, many people have become addicted to it that their lives and relationships are suffering as a result of it. Meaningful conversations no longer take place in homes, offices and relationships because people are always engrossed in one thing or the other on their phones and tablets.
Some people have been killed and others have had serious accidents because they were using their phones while driving, walking, cooking, sleeping and so on. Parents and children are not exempted because every one is busy with their phones. It is very painful because family values are no longer thought adequately because every body is busy with their phones. Instead families and children are learning values via the internet. The social media is teaching us and and our children family values that are a far cry from what our parents passed on to us. They are learning things that are destroying them and parents are not aware because they too are busy with it and are also being lured away from their responsibilities by it.
One of the reasons why the family system has been destroyed today is the social media because people spend quality time with their phones than with their spouses, families and friends. If you fail in your responsibilities as a leader, as parents and husbands and wives, “the new guy” in town called the social media will do it for you. Have you thought of the high rate of divorce, rape (child and adult), kidnapping, brain drain and so on? One good reason for all of this is the social media which ought to be a good tool but has been exchanged for quality time, parenting and so on. The brain behind this is the devil. He knows if the family system is intact, homes will be solid and the nations will be better for it. So, he has decided to attack families, relationships, marriages, homes, colleagues and so on with it. He has been introducing so many things to destroy generations and people from age to age. In our time, he knows the impact the social media can have on our generation, so he has been using it effectively.
Ephesians 2:1-2 says, “ 1. As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,
2 In which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient”.
The Bible calls him the prince of the power of the air and he has lived up to expectation. He uses the air waves to his advantage very well and he is not ready to stop. Instead he will improve his skills, expand his reach and methods. Every one (including me) has fallen prey to his schemes one way or the other through the social media. He brings new developments, applications, devices and even games through people that make us spend more time on the social media daily than with our families, friends and loved ones. Relationships are no longer meaningful and deep because of the social media. Instead relationships have become superficial because we don’t have time for ourselves anymore, hence we are losing meaningful relationships. The impart of what the social media is having on us can be seen below ( Pictures Speak):
The above pictures say it all. As people would say, pictures speak and the above pictures were not photo shopped. They are real and they express what goes on in all races, nations and relationships. If we want to save our homes, relationships and ourselves, we need to control, manage, monitor and regulate the use of phones. It will help us individually and save many people who have become addicts to it and heading towards destruction. Wilson Ileogben
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