One of new years’ resolution was to develop my skills and
somewhere cut down unwanted baseless communication and social networking with
the world so that I can fetch some more time for development of own skills.
Facebook, Hangout, Google+, Whatsapp, Linkedin etc etc...
In this world of laptops, smart phones, tablets we have endless
medium to stay connected, ENDLESS.. the whole world knows where are we, what we are up
to, what exactly are we eating and the biggest of all is we are available 24 X 7 just a ping away.
We are online and available almost every moment every second of
the day and night. The first thing that we do after waking up is checking the
whatsapp and those red notifications on our facebook page.
But in the middle of all these endless "FORCED" &
baseless communication we fail to realize how much we have ignored the
time we wasted, from those showering good mornings pings on some XYZ group till
those useless forward massages few of the important moments are drained out.
Yes I do feel and agree that whatsapp is one of the greatest app
ever developed but somewhere it is turning out to be more as a time eater than
medium to stay connected.
I miss the days of SMS when it was all convenient to communicate
according to our time and love those phone and face to face conversations that
are somewhere lost their significance and beauty just like those greeting cards
and bouquet in this world of technology.
Here are my reasons to quit whatsapp :
1) Too much
communication : Getting up 7 in the morning ending up
hitting Whatsapp, result wasted 20 minutes doing nothing constructive. We are
too much available to people, every moment every second I was more curious to
reply. Reply to make people feel that they are important no matter how busy I
was, where I was stuck , I was forced to mark my presence and showing the fake
statement that I care. The whole communication thing got endless but not meaningful
and medium squeezed to whatsapp. But whatever I communicated only 20% holded the meaning.
2)Too much networking
:Whatsapp utterly changed the meaning and classification, beauty of word called
"Friends". According to the new whatsapp theorem the conversation
that we made on whatsapp defined the "friends" and we forget the
essence that most of conversation we do was with ramdom people we have met here
n there. With a normal hey whatsapp and small talk like “aur kya chal rahaa hai?”
(whats going on?) I realized what kind to time eating communication and people
I am inviting to my life. Whatsapp do lead and fulfill the purpose of
networking but whats the meaning of those forced communications.
3) Self Development:
In this dynamic era of communication, I am reading and making my own
life’s tale. Being in 20s is all about developing, learning and preforming.
Following dreams, ,making efforts to lead the kind of life I want. But How
often we get those early good morning pings over some random group I was never
bothered to reply but yes just checking those msgs killed most of my time.
Since morning till the time I was supposed to sleep, every time few minutes
that could been utilized by reading some good books or anything constructive
was wasted in entertaining the situations that will eventually lead into
killing the time.
4) Killing Relations:
Too much communication kills the relation. I practically noticed it. Whatsapp
magnified communication. Every time every second we type and read. Hardly getting
time to think all thanks to “Blue tick”. Result : Increasing expectations and
then misunderstandings and then ending the good relations.
Major changes after whatsapp:
1) Freedom : freedom from reply, freedom from
checking phone every second. Freedom of doing what I want, freedom of time. No forced
urge to talk and reply.
2) More Time: I now have more time for
myself. I read three great books in one month stretch. I had more time to
follow my hobbies and more dedicated to my self.
3) No more “Unwanted Janta”: After deleting
the whatsapp I noticed only my real buddies contacted me and were there from me
. Thanks Aditi, Sakshi Jain, Pankaj, Manish, Vishu, Anku, Nami, Neha &
Deep J.
4) More Peace : It is something I loved the
most. I was at peace, contended & happy.
5) More Mindful : I was mindful and dedicated
with full concentration whatever I did. I was more productive than ever. My
skills of reading and writing improved.
Keeping no offence with whatsapp, I still appreciate the app. I
strongly feel that its not the fault of the application. It was me who was way
too much engrossed in the application. Somewhere not having whatsapp was a
problem too. My two really close friends Kashish & Ishan, moved out of
India. And somewhere I missed whatsapp because I wanted to communicate and ISD
rates are way too high. In this case whatsapp was a treat to pocket as it
offered free calling around the globe. But in that case we do have different
options. I used my mother’s phone to call them ;).
At the end my conclusion is “too much of anything is bad”. Somewhere
we have to prioritize our life. Somewhere we need to decide what amount of communication
is important & what is toxic to us and our brains. Whatsapp being a business
venture will always develop the kind the attribute which will lure us and that
is the real test of our intellect. Getting indulge into it or not is our
decision.
