Charging our phones so that
the spies may come alive.
Hiding in our houses they
report back on how we survive.
Every private thought
has been recorded.
and an algorithm will let us
know how we will be rewarded
They traumatise our children
with obscene images
that in the past would have
been considered criminal.
Freedom of speech
is all very well
but try criticising these spies
and you are told to go to hell.
We invited these entities
into our homes
while the hidden cost
remained unknown.
They are in control and make
sure everything is in sync
by force feeding us so much
information that we
don’t know what to think.
Try to turn them off and we worry
about what we have missed
and then we realise it
was futile to resist.
Looking at your child, you have
figured out the hidden cost,
it’s the innocence of
a generation that’s being lost.
Yes! I was just reflecting on this when my 12 year old niece stayed with us yesterday. She hardly put her phone down for a second and it was so sad 😔 Today’s kids are really being trampled by media and never learning to think or play. 😢
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Being told what to think.
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Yes, that as well!
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We drive by the local park frequently. All the people walking the park are just looking down at their phones. Their eyes are not looking at the world around them. We have teenagers that don’t have phones. We let them use ours. They get enough screen time at school. Our generation are reliable on their phones. You don’t know peoples phone numbers. So in case of emergency and there’s no battery or you have cracked your screen. I don’t know how much more our kids can ingest into their minds. Raising our children to be able to go to the next level of life. Why won’t parents stop letting technology babysit their kids. It’s lazy and at times child abuse in a sense. We have to make a stand in our family’s so that it makes them better people. And we have given them their best foot forward.
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Well said.
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