Dangers to personal life

At first look I thought it was one of those routine SMS
mercilessly pumped through the wave frequencies into
your cell -- has it not become another biological cell --
by innumerable operators.

Another look and I was drawn. "Are you in love?" it started.
Who is not or was not, I thought. Then the fizz opened.
It sought to hook, to use the precise term, youngsters by promising
to give tips to be smarter if you are in love, and the tips are
available, separately, for boys and girls who are to SMS
for different numbers. And it comes with a cost of course,
at Rs.1 per SMS.

First, there was apprehension about TV bringing into the house
obsecenity, vulgarity and soft pornography that was the
domain of yellow journals and pavement booklets and
of course the Big Bad Guy -- the movies.

Then came the computer which threw open, through the
worldwide web, an ocean of information on all subjects
on earth, including relationships. E-mail turned into
Evil mail. Everyone is familiar with the Tamil movie
song "O Maria, O Maria" that depicts young love
going online.

Now that the cellphone is the most personal and popular
means of communication, the baddies are at it again, turning
this useful gadget into a love-making instrument.

And the operators themselves are into this business of love.
Who has opened this gateway for all such purposes
that are detrimental to societal norms?

With no government hold on the electronic mass media
and inhouse norms regulation lacking, the people at
large are in grave danger of their privacy being intruded
upon, their children being exposed to irresponsible elements
and stalkers and societal norms being demolished.