The excessive use of technology has resulted in degradation of moral values in youth

"We lived on farms, then we lived in the cities and now we are going to live on the internet". -Sean Parker (Co-founder of Facebook) In today"s era of technological advancement, world has been pacing towards development by leaps and bounds. The scientific gifts of electronic gadgets to the nature have reduced the large map of the world to a small global village. As, too much of anything is also not good. So, sadly it is a one-sided story. Man has been completely ensnared by the cobwebs of computers,laptops,TV,mobile phones to such an extent that he is not able to wriggle out even to fulfill his social and moral obligations. As, soon as the child grows up enough to understand and analyse things, he notices one hand of his parents on the phone, the other hand punching keys on the laptop or in their free time they are glued to the TV screens. Tell me my dear opponents why these parents do not have time from their mobile conversations and TV shows to have a heart-to-heart conversation with their children to imbibe the moral values in them. I guess technology is the only answer. As are the words of Mahatma Gandhiji "there is enough for everyone"s need but not for anyone"s greed."Similarly, the youth of today has been consumed by consumer ism and materialism to such an extent that his desires have become insatiable.Now, the child enters his teenage where emotions easily dominate over rationality and mobile phones become our best mates. WHY? This is so because in today"s world relationships are built on phones or through internet. I agree that these are a means to communicate, but now they are becoming the only means to communicate making 1 on 1 conversations less frequent, which are a prerequisite for humanism (moral values).I wouldn't be doing justice without mentioning the role of social networking sites in a teenagers and youth"s life. For e.g. FB at present has 500 million users, which is equivalent to the population of the 3rd largest country in the world. The result is that we don"t get time from facebooking and texting giving rise to the weeds of generation gap and cyber bullying. Let me share with you a FB status to elaborate the generation gap."Last night my internet connection wasn't working, i spent time with my family; they seem to be nice people."For cyber bullying let me share with you, a true life incident. This recently took place in a renowned school in girl. There was a multifaceted, happy-go-lucky type of girl, who was about to be adjudged the school head girl. Then suddenly comes the shocking news that she has committed suicide.WHY? Because she was a victim of cyber bullying. Her opponent couldn't take her success and posted vulgar and personal stuff about her life on FB and she couldn't take it. This is just one incident, there are thousands of them taking place on a daily basis. Thus, it wouldn't be wrong to say that technology has instilled the sense of inhibition. This has further made us imbibe indiscipline, aggressiveness and selfishness instead of discipline, composure and selflessness. Acc. to Nicholas Carr(author),Computers are rewinding our process of evolution by reducing our attention span and decision-making skills. Thus, it has been rightly said that "We have become the people unable to comprehend the technology we invent". Instead of building close ties with our family and friends, we are isolating ourselves by virtually creating a world where everything is possible except true friendships and social values. In the end I would like to conclude by saying that," DON"T LET THE KEYPADS AND KEYBOARDS BE THE KEY TO UR HEART"