Information and Communication Technological Advancement: The other side

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By Evans Dakwa

Information Communication Technology (ICT) simply defined stresses the role of unified communications and the integration of telecommunications (telephone and wireless signals), computers as well as necessary enterprise software which enable users to access, store, transmit and manipulate information.

Recent developments in the ICT sector have seen the emergence of social networks in an accelerated rate since the turn of the millennium. Social networks have taken the world by storm literally sparking a revolution in the communication spectrum. Facebook and Twitter made communication across board very easy and more efficient, where we might have had to send a registered mail; we now had quicker message delivery via these two platforms.

If Facebook and Twitter has been the in thing in changing and facilitating better human communication then take a bow for instant messaging application WhatsApp which has gone further in simplifying the art of communication among people thousands of miles apart.

With WhatsApp already introducing voice calls; communication has never been this easy. On the flip side however, there are always two sides to the coin and in as much as we are over the moon over the introductions of these communication simplifiers, there is a down side to the advent of all these social networks.

Radical and militant groups like the ISIS of this world have used social networks to lure young people to join their militant terrorist activities using the power of the social media which has facilitated the easy passage of terrorist propaganda in the process intoxicating young unsuspecting minds.

Therapists have had to work overtime to deal with people who have become addicted to social networks. Despite the pros associated with them, they have the potential to scuttle productivity in every sphere of life especially when they become addictive. They can be a hindrance to education for the young ones still trying to make it out in the world, work and productivity for the working class and need not that they have been a source of many marital problems with some leading to divorce.
The social networks have no limits at all in as far the nature of the language is concerned. Sexually explicit and hate vitriol is all over the networks and there is no prizes for guessing the negative effects it is having on the young minds, cultivating the wrong culture. Their juvenile minds which are not yet able to surf the good and bad will grow assimilating the vitriol we are exposed to on most social networks as the norm. I could go on and on expagorating on the negative effects that these social networks can have and are having on the human populace but for now I rest my case.






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