Technology has led to noticeable changes in celebration methods

Specialists assured Al -Youm that technological developments and social media have led to noticeable changes in the ways of celebrating and communicating during the days of Eid.
The specialists indicated that these technologies contributed to enhancing communication, but at the same time they negatively affected the social customs of some, as family visits, which were one of the most important aspects of the holiday, retreated in front of the spread of virtual meetings.

The specialists noted that some families no longer maintain the tradition of visits, which led to a decline in family ties and weak social bonds, and stressed the importance of balance between benefiting from technology in sharing the joy of the feast with the distant, and preserving authentic habits through direct meetings and family visits, especially since the occasion of the feast brings together friends and friends in an atmosphere full of joy and harmony, and emphasizing the employment of technology with intelligence, so that it enhances intelligence Social values ​​instead of replacing them, by legalizing their use on the feast, and focusing on real communication that embodies the meanings of affection and joy on this blessed occasion.

Eid joy

Abdullah Bou Rasis (prisoner counselor) said: The feast has a special joy in communicating with relatives, friends, neighbors and colleagues, so you find people showing signs of joy and pleasure by exchanging visits and attracting talks and smiles during the meetings.

With the emergence of modern technology and the multiplicity of social media, some changes occurred on people’s celebrations of the feast, some people have invested technology and technology positively, such as someone who benefited from them in communicating with his residents residing away from him, and their joys share them moment by moment as if they were with them in the same place, and some send his congratulations on the feast for all the people close and far, but some of them have not seen him long ago !! This congratulations may be a reason for the return of the ropes of communication again.
There are people who have affected technology negatively in celebrating the holiday, as some are satisfied with messages only about visits and meetings with family, relatives and friends, and some are busy communicating with friends through various social media even during visits and meetings, which may cause him to be interrupted by his real world and live in the virtual world.

He said so that we do not lose the joy of celebrating the holiday, we have to communicate, visits and meetings, and to harness technology in the participation of the distant celebrating the feast, and legalizing its use in meetings and visits.

Big changes

Adnan Al -Dariish (a prisoner advisor) said: No one denies that social media has made major changes in our social lives, including the celebration of religious, social, cultural and national occasions, so you find it facilitated, tired, spted and penetrated all the patterns of our life.

He added, “Family visits, which were one of the most important societal values ​​began to weaken in front of the media, so that some families died when this value and turned into virtual meetings despite the presence of many of them in one city.”
He continued, “I got congratulations across WhatsApp and other applications, and beautiful phone phrases were replaced by some congratulatory cards mixed with pictures and graphics, the latest of which is the newly updated selfie fashion, in which the types of gifts, foods, drinks, sweets and clothes are presented, not to mention the advice and instructions for the feast.”