I won’t.
I know what must you be thinking? Just two days ago she was
whining about not wanting to get married and here she is worried sick about her
future children. But don’t blame me. After all I am a Piscean, that too a woman
and the ground reality, my friend, is that “WE THINK” and more often than not
we can’t keep shut either.
It first hit me some three years ago – when I started
getting friend requests from children in their early teens- you know the ones
with that new found “kickass attitude” (Read: scary).
The ones who’d join any group at the drop of the hat just cause it had the word
hate/fuck or flying-fuck in it.
Not because they were really capable of hating
someone – or they even understood such a strong emotion- - but only because
such was the difficult age that they were passing through that they’d do just
about anything to fit in.
But then again who am I to talk? I was even worse. (Thank
God, there was no facebook when I was a teenager- I would have made a big “hardass”
fool of myself- sigh -relief!)
Anyway let’s not get into the super-glorious topic of how
big a fool would I have made of myself? The mere thought is frightening.
And let’s
get back to the topic in hand – children accessing facebook.
This would be a nightmare come true!
Not that it didn’t bother me three years ago when I started
getting add requests from children in the first place – (although I avoided
adding them so as to do my part in discouraging them)- but then that was it – I
was way too caught up in my own blunder-fest to bring about changes in the
society.
So it was a set procedure - I’d deny any such request and
then I’d keep getting repeated add requests from the same kid and ironically
enough his profile quote would read "I don't really give a fuck. So fuck who you are."
But you know what is even more alarming and unfortunate than that? With
every passing year the average age of the friend request sender is lowering on
my fb account – Hell, I got a friend request from a seven year old – for crying
out loud.
I am aware that this dadi
amma avataar may be too much to handle for you people but I have got to
say it – Internet (which is not familiar with any kind of censorship) is not a
place for children that age. Moderate use of the computer may be one thing but
access to facebook is only going to mess them up. I know it’d be years before
we may have to worry about such things but we better face facts asap.
Because last thing that i’d want to witness is ---- my six
year old pouting her lips as soon as she spots a camera!
1 comment:
Good One ....:)
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