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There is so much to keep one busy on the social media

Tichaona Zindoga
Social media is now pervasive, whether you are on the latest phone or those generic gadgets from you-know-where which seem to do the job, too. And you can communicate with anyone anywhere, from anywhere, anytime. But then there is the beauty and the ugliness of it.

As we have lately observed, the beauty about social media is fast being overtaken bt its warts especially judging about the inappropriate places that social media is being used.

Below are the five worst places one can think of:

Church — The church is the place where we sinners go to get in touch with God and repent our sins and fellowship with other sinners of our kind. And to be on Whatsapp in church? Are you conversing with God on your phone? And will it not be useful to stay home and talk to him from there? At least that will save the Pastor the agony of preaching over un-listening heads!

Funeral — This is disgusting, disrespectful and annoying. Unless the justification is that you are giving somebody directions. Otherwise, when everybody is overcome with grief and you choose to be leering over those dirty pictures and jokes? That is a no-no.

Bedroom — Now this could as will be the worst that social media could bring. Imagine the picture of a man and woman sleeping back to back and busy on their phones. No spooning for warmth, no whispering in the ear, nothing! And some people, lying on the same bed, prefer texting each other instead of just talking, the natural way, the way our parents did. Of course social media, and the phone itself, has brewed more than enough trouble for couples because one party cannot really resist snooping into what is holding their better half.

Bathroom — Thank good heavens for waterproofing. But should we really be taking the phone into the bathroom? This is of course asking for the Devil to tempt you into taking a not-so-appropriate picture of yourself. And you do not have to be a Brian Machekanyanga to fall into such temptation. A five-minute shower would not ordinarily lose you any valuable information.

Bar — Social drinking? That is fast becoming an extinct phenomenon. In the old days you would go to the pub with your friends and talk and shout and sing yourself hoarse, beer handy to soften the throats. Nowadays, such places are fast becoming graveyards of silence. Each man to his beer and his phone. You cannot start or maintain any meaningful conversation with a beer drinking automaton, can you? The spirit of socialising is disappearing fast. Not even a football match on television is able to distract a person on the phone, who has regressed to listening to football commentary, with an occasional glance up for a goal and incident occasioned by cheers and jeers of those really following the match.

Will the time come when people will live in the real world not the virtual world? It may be well for people to make choices.