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The Digital Chains: How Social Media Turned Us Into Modern Slaves





By Qazi Wajdan, A Student at Department Of Biotechnology, University Of Malakand.

We scroll, we like and we post but we are not free. The modern humans do not wear chains of slavery; we carry it in our pockets. We have become slaves by choice, silently and happily and we have started to love or selves being slaves. The worst part is that we don’t even realize it.

Everyone thinks that social media gives them a voice but in reality their thoughts are filtered, shaped and sold. There are different people on social media with different thoughts and we don’t know which opinion to follow because everyone has a different opinion regarding anything. We watch one influencer, then the other and after watching all of them, we start to think which one was right about the specific event happening at that time. Actually, we are not posting, we are performing. We may feel free but our every swipe is being programmed.

We used to scroll to pass time but now we scroll to escape our lives and by lives I mean getting rid of everything, it has become our excuse for us to not do anything. We don’t realize but this our generation has become one of the most obedient generation of digital slaves. We are addicted, distracted and willingly controlled. They do not need whips, they just need a screen and we walk into that trap right away every single day.

Social media was supposed to connect us but it has hollowed us from inside. We have a lot of friends on social media but we have no one to talk to at midnight. We double tap at strangers but we forget to hug our mothers. We spend hours crafting captions yet we forgot to speak honestly in real life. We post to impress, not to express. We worship filters, numbers and reels. We follow people who make us hate ourselves quietly. We all have been trapped in a world where everyone is better than us but in reality that is not the truth because everyone possesses different traits and qualities, everyone is beautiful in the way they are if they start looking at things from the positive side. The scary part is that we all are aware of this truth but we still don’t stop.



We are not users anymore, we are the product. Our attention is sold and our behavior is shaped. Our confidence is crushed and then sold back to us in the form of ads and influencers. We don’t realize how we are being programmed.



We are losing the ability to sit with our thoughts, the skill of holding real conversations, the strength to focus deeply, the power of privacy and the meaning of presence and worst of all we are losing ourselves.

You don’t need to delete everything, but you need to wake up. You should use social media instead of letting it use you.



1.       Start posting with purpose.

2.      Start scrolling with awareness.

3.      Take back your time, mind and your soul.

Slavery does not always come in shackles, sometimes it comes with a Wi-Fi.

If you don’t control your screen, it will control your story.

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