Cybermania is Here to Stay

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A serious disorder has struck many victims, with students being highly susceptible. Doctors are shocked and treatment is yet to begin. The new disease has been named ‘cybermania’. Beware: it has gone viral and can be shared instantly if you have a mobile phone. To know if you have been affected by this disease, you have got to check for the following symptoms:

If your day cannot begin without checking your phone and scrolling down the forwarded ‘Good Morning’ messages from your friends on Whatsapp, you have surely been affected.
“Facebook is there to remind me of birthdays and anniversaries. I need not remember them. It never fails to notify me and so there is no chance that I will overlook the day”. Are these your regular thoughts? Finding a cure to this may be close to impossible. P.S. If your friend did not put his/her birthday on Facebook, you need to be gravely concerned.
Memes have pretty much replaced newspapers as your source for current affair updates.
Sequence of events: Whatsapp group name has been changed. It is someone’s birthday today. You sometimes wish them without even knowing who it is!
Want to know anything at all? Just google it! Has Matha Pitha GURU Deivam changed to Matha Pitha GOOGLE Deivam for you?
Your phone memory has been taken over by PDFs of your classmate’s notes and assignments, which means taking less pictures or downloading fewer apps during exams.
Do you have a whatsapp group with your roomies? Sending messages to people in the same room and laughing at it is the most common symptom.
You wouldn’t know what people sitting right next to you are doing. With your always-online phone in hand, tweets and status updates tells you what your friends and others 500 kms away are up to.
If you go somewhere, looking around the place and hanging out becomes insignificant. You spend all the time trying to take a perfect selfie for your DP!
Constantly visiting Flipkart and Amazon. You buy something not because you need it but because there is an offer.
Being at a place without free WiFi is pretty much impossible to survive.