" On the eve of expulsion, Shaitan promised the Lord of how he will dissuade people from the right path, trapping them in his web! That moment is today.  His most open and most lethal weapon – the internet is perhaps his greatest tool ever.  And maybe that’s why the inventors of the net, unknowingly named it that way – the World Wide Web, where once entangled, one may find himself/herself helpless to free  from its brutal clutches".
--the author

 

The Web!

By Mohamedarif M Suleman (Nairobi, Kenya)

The good news for all of you out there is that the world has progressed by leaps and bounds, that science and technology has beyond imagination surged to such levels that what was so impossible many years ago, is today possible through the click of a simple button.  Many of you may even remember when the first Amstrads hit the market in the 1980s, and how they caused a huge demand for these monstrous machines.  In those days, amidst the intricacies of a DOS environment, many users could simply paint a brush here and a brush there in what was then Doodle software.

The headlines then were how the US intelligence was experimenting on the use of email in their military operations. Which mail, was the resonant response.  Amstrads and Apples became followed by a further entrance in the markets of the new generation video games – the Ataris and the Nintendos, and thereafter the stalwarts of science and technology never looked back.

All this seems like Jurassic history as Microsoft’s ground breaking Windows operating platform coupled with user friendly software and plug and play devices changed the way we all lived our lives.  Let us also not forget the difficult days of a corded video “remote” control being replaced by the present-day cordless ones.

This article is not about science and technology, nor am I particularly qualified to narrate a historical step-by-step account of the same.  My task is simply to divert our attention to what then crept in, into these devices of marvel, efficiency and productivity.

Some years ago, parents would be proud to say that their children were working on the internet when the rest of the family was watching the traditional night movie, years later many parents became wary of what work their children had been doing for years.  And the damage was not just on children.  A friend of mine – a happily married man with children now in his early forties, amuses himself with great and the latest mobile devices to such great levels that it would make you wonder what it is that he does, until recently when he did show me the “cool” and “hot” videos stored in them.  The floodgates of sin, this time on a new frontier, were vastly open.

And while millions of people use the internet to shop, chat, work and many other activities, cybersex is today the new threat to the self demolition of our species.  Yannick Chatelain, in his book “In Bed with the Web: Internet and the New Adultery” writes, “The Internet will soon become the most common form of infidelity…It is clear that the computer has already unsettled relations.”

His co-author and psychologist Loick Roche says that while for younger Internet users, meeting people online and having sexual encounters is already the status quo, the 35-40 age group who want something else to spice up their lives are the next victims.

Britain, like other developed nations, where broadband is pretty much at home in a majority of households, has pointed out that the Internet is contributing to a rising rate of divorces.  The Indian press regularly reports how young people force their girlfriends into webcam situations in order to get a kick out of their relationships, sexually that is.

The Great nation of the US, regulator of the Industry, according to Chatellain, is having a field day drumming up both sides – condemning online pornography while doing little to block it.  And like every other time, America has a reason for this – the industry is churning out 70billion US Dollars this year alone.  In some countries such as Australia, Switzerland and Norway, mobile devices with built-in cameras have been banned from public places such as pools and sports clubs for obvious reasons.

On the eve of expulsion, Shaitan promised the Lord of how he will dissuade people from the right path, trapping them in his web! That moment is today.  His most open and most lethal weapon – the internet is perhaps his greatest tool ever.  And maybe that’s why the inventors of the net, unknowingly named it that way – the World Wide Web, where once entangled, one may find himself/herself helpless to free  from its brutal clutches.

Moral of the story? How do you rate yourself as a Web user? How do you regulate your family and especially, your children in its use? Questions rather than morals, huh?

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