FACEBOOKING OR PHASE LOSING?

As much as all classes of people are today found on social networks, vice chancellors, school principals, CEOs, parents and teachers, it is a hardly expressed truth that one of the best things that happened to many of us was the unavailability of social media during our teen age. A careful assessment of posts on Facebook and other social media shows the height of intellectual decline among young people.
Ask teachers at all levels, it takes so much monitoring to have students keep their phones while classes are ongoing. It is a great thing to socialise, but there was always time for it back then. We had girlfriends in secondary school but relationships were over once schools closed. We ghetto children had our wonderful night plays and storytelling time but it was over once our father or mother called us in at 8pm. Do these new media children stop talking and chatting at any time of the day? How many young people do or post anything productive on social media? How many young people are still sat down by their parents to listen to Network News on NTA as it was then? Super Story ended that! I wish to carry out a study on the percentage of youths who know other media like educational media and even read online newspapers with their phones; I am scared already at what my findings may be. 

This public essay was ignited by the kind of sentences I read daily from supposedly secondary school leavers and undergraduates who post on social network sites. And the question struck me: ARE THEY ‘FACEBOOKING’ OR LOSING PHASE ON SOCIAL MEDIA? My mother, as a school certificate holder, first pointed my attention to the differences between British and American English. An average Nigerian graduate today cannot even speak our so-called Nigerian English correctly.
And here are my evaluation questions which you may also adopt:
How many hours do I spend on social networks daily?
Am I doing anything productive on social networks?
Can I really be productive if social networks continue to claim this much of my time?
AM I FACEBOOKING OR JUST LOSING AN IMPORTANT PHASE THAT SHOULD BE WELL UTILISED?
Self assessment is a condition for goal actualisation!
©2016 Gani Bamgbose
Gani Gab Abisoye Bamgbose