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GenZ to GenGPT: A Generation Raised by Wi-Fi

We are the generation born into the web extending worldwide, which was supposed to connect everyone but ironically traps them. The digital hyper-connection has replaced regular physical interactions and made us forget the real world with the illusion of online connections. A kid born into this era learns how to use the palm-sized distraction blackhole: the mobile phone before their name. The well-designed devices are efficacious in trapping tiny tots by giving them their daily dose of dopamine. They learn to scroll before they even start to read. This modern-day addiction is even worse compared to drugs, for we do not even realize that we have fallen for it.

Social media has limited our lives to catchy captions, daily vlogs and aesthetic stories. We validate ourselves not based on whom we are but by the number of likes our posts get or the number of followers we have. Anxiety, self-doubt, insecurity are the new viruses that crumble our mental health. With our dropping attention spans and rising ability to procrastinate, we can doomscroll the entire night but cannot complete a five-minute assignment.

The algorithm knows us better than we do, autocorrect finishes what we want to say, AI predicts what we want and sometimes what we’ll become. These tools made to entertain us are influencing us. We prompt ChatGPT to get our assignments, projects, and homework done but don’t realize our increasing dependence on it. The lines between whom we are and what the wi-fi world has made us have blurred. Now everything we do is decided by an online trend rather than our own preferences.

Little do we know that every picture, every like, every search and even the posts and comments we delete are saved as our permanent digital footprints. We are unaware that recruiters track and check our data, for their hiring methods have evolved with technological advancements. Our personality is judged even before we enter a room, just based on social media activity. And even before we realise, our jobs are snatched by the reels the algorithm made us like.

Conclusion

To escape this trap, we don’t need to dispose of our devices or delete accounts, we need to pause, think and reflect before we like, share and comment. Though it might sound cliché but digital detox is one of the best ways to avoid distractions in this wi-fi era. We need to focus on what is real and make the most and positive use of the technological tools available rather than causing self-destruction with them. It is high time we understand that distraction is the cause of destruction. We must embark on a path to self-awareness from online profiles and from GenGPT to genZ back again.

"Enjoy things like there's no tomorrow"

Sahasra Marri

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I do agree that old is gold,

But something that is new today has to become old someday,

So better appreciate things today rather than when they become old.

Sahasra Marri

"You don't need a trauma to laugh and smile"

Sahasra Marri

"Admire things as if there is no tomorrow"

Sahasra Marri

"People are mortal,