Specialists confirmed that the information revolution, the technology boom, and social networking sites took a large part of people’s attention during the blessed Eid Al-Fitr, and affected the forms of social communication between families and youth on the feast, and the meetings took place through digital space, text messages, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, video clips, and short messages (podcasts). Transferred to more than one person with the same meanings and expressions of congratulations. In interviews with Qatari media, they said that technology has a positive effect in that it shortens the time if the individual makes good use of it, and it has a negative effect in that it controls the form of individual and social communication, and most people see text messages as an easy way to offer Eid and Eid congratulations. They pointed out that Eid al-Fitr is a message of love, meeting, peace, and art in direct communication with others, and that it is important to stay away from technology that placed a barrier between individuals. To get close to his family and acquaintances. On to the meetings: Maryam Al-Mulla: Artistic employment of technology in congratulating the Eid. Ms. Maryam Al-Mulla said: The holiday is a message of peace and love for society, and that arts are messages expressing friendship, welcome and social encounter. As for artists, everyone is keen to employ technology and the information revolution in the service of art and society. Happy occasions A person searches for an effective way to communicate with his social environment, so electronic messages have become the talk of everyone. She added that technology has both positive and negative effects, and depends on the individual’s use of it, and in whatever field he employs. It is misused in monitoring the negatives and publishing clips that have an annoying effect on others, which leads to problems. She said: Technology has affected the forms of social communication, and this is due to the way individuals exploit this technology to bring individuals and families together, and to spread pictures of love in the sweet phrases of Eid. As for me, I am keen to embody the joy of the feast in my paintings, such as the feast, the welcome among the guests, and the meetings of family and neighbors, which remain ingrained in people’s minds and serve as vivid scenes for them. Noura Al-Kaabi: The means of communication have made the holiday lose the joy of meetings. The journalist, Noura Al-Kaabi, confirmed that sensory communication and social meeting are the most beautiful meanings of the holiday, because it reeks of memories, interesting conversations, and meetings around banquet tables, adding that the technology boom, although it shortened time and provided electronic services, brought distances closer, but it reduced the Social communication and Eid lost the fun and joy of meeting. She said that many people prefer to send text messages to express their joy on the holiday, and most of them are one message and in one format that he sends to everyone (podcast), and at the same time it does not express coherence and courtship. She added that technology has reduced many life matters that cost people the hardship of moving from one place to another, but at the same time it has reduced the feelings and feelings that must be full of Eid. She said that many no longer feel the joy of Eid due to the absence of communication, and the meeting is no longer as it was in the past an occasion to strengthen the bonds of relations between families, neighbors and friends. I advise young people to focus on direct communication with their loved ones, their families, and the elderly in their families and with their relatives, because the social fabric is necessary in maintaining the cohesion of the individual and his psychological and mental stability. Zainab Khashan: Replacing visits with messages negatively affects children Ms. Zainab Khashan, an educational and family consultant, explained that technology has affected individuals’ behavior and social life, so that everyone chooses to send text messages on Eid to congratulate them and chooses the easy way to communicate with their community surroundings. She said that the period of the pandemic and the health situation of closures and social divergence greatly affected social relations, and community members found an easy and quick way to exchange conversations and congratulations with others through social networking sites or fast e-mails, which clearly reduced the size of relations. She added that the difference in time due to the boom in technology affected social duties, as some believe that WhatsApp messages are sufficient as a substitute for a social visit, and that if this negative impact continues, it will reflect on children, as families must have a major role in providing family support to individuals and urging them to communicate. Maintaining relationships between neighbours, friends and relatives. She emphasized that Eid is an occasion for joy, joy and happiness, and we must take advantage of all available means to communicate with others.
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