The full edition of this article by Ovie is now here for our fans to read, and get..... .

The full edition of this article by Ovie is now here for our fans to read, and get a better mindset about the ramping age of computer and its effects on its prey. Don't be left, you have to read this.........


COMPUTER AGE AND ISOLATION

“Welcome to the 5th generation of computer”, the world says. Computer has affected almost all the professions of life; in an abridge form; I want to classify this generation as ‘computer age’. However, according to Macmillan English Dictionary, the term ‘isolation’ is defined as the state of being separated from other people.
The rampage nature of this age come with some effects which has affected people (it’s Users)          especially the youths in different ways. People have been able to eke-out a living from this age which is an instance of its merit to this present generation. Isolation, one of what this age has brought, is spreading like virus on people and to the youths in particular. The former contains both merits and demerits effects on its Users. But I tell it to you today, that the demerits have over-shadowed the merits. I believe you are thinking towards that direction now. For instance, a campus girl in possession of a Blackberry phone, with internet services has the entire world on her palms. She connects to any one in any part of the globe with her phone. Let me break it down, do you know the reigning social networking sites on the net today? Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, 2go to mention but a few of these sites; She surfs through these sites regularly with her phone connecting to people electronically. When she is in her hostel, she   relates with only her phone and ignores all other beings around her. Isolation in this context is rejuvenated, and anything she can gain from her environs is lost, because her attention is unshared with her phone. An adage says ‘is what you hear, that you act on’. In other words, vital information may be shared around her, but since she is not inclined to her environs at that instant, those information are not decoded. Hereby, making her arsenal of knowledge about her environs (i.e. campus) not fully equipped. More-so, this same girl goes to the Lecture Hall for lectures with her beloved phone. While listening to lectures, she is on Facebook chatting with her E-friends at the expense of the lecture. She tends to isolate herself from the hall, even though she is right there in the hall. Most campus youths are fond of this destructive habit on campus of today. The Lecturer tends to talk to deaf ears, wasting time trying to get students to understand what he is disseminating.
Addiction is a bad disease, most people tends to consider the verity of this statement, when we talk of drugs, smoking and so on.
 But they forgot that addiction to these social networking sites is also a syndrome that should be addressed, before it eats up our youths on campus. Isolating yourself in a lecture hall equates you with someone who is absent from class that day. Most youths are engrossed with these social networking sites to an extent that they use 11-hours out of 12-hours a day to browse. And some hours at night at the expense of good rest, in order to relax their   working memory. “I’m already a victim, how can I get out of this mess?”; “stop me from getting addicted”; these and many more questions are running down someone’s mind now. However, let me assure you that there are way-outs, and you can choose the one that suits you. These way-outs will be discussed properly in the next edition of the YOUTH FOCUS. You out there, may also have the requisites to this syndrome that is eating up our youths on campus today. All you have to do is to send your comments to our EMAIL ADDRESS or our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE. Remember it is not a bad idea to surf through these social networking sites, but addiction to it is the bad idea. Reduce your addiction to the net!!!
 By,
Ovie Ojarikre
FUTO, Owerri