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By Aissam El Hani
Morocco World News
Tetouan, May 26, 2013
I still remember when I was a little kid we used to live in the country side. A lot of us used the old made in Germany gas lamps as a lighting system inside houses. We used to communicate a lot with our families. Our fathers and mothers used to tell us fairy tales before we sleep or even when we ask them to do so. Sometimes we enjoyed the stories and other times we spent nights full of horror as they were speaking about strange creatures that we still recall even as grownups.
Living in the north of Morocco we were lucky enough to watch the Spanish television TVE. It was restricted for us youngsters. We were allowed only to watch news with our parents. Sometimes we switch on the TV in their absence to see what we were not allowed to and then we discovered that we really shouldn’t watch with them scenes, such as kissing and even love-making.
The telephone was good news for everyone and it made it a bit easier for families to send and receive news. There used to be one phone in the neighbor’s apartments and people used to book appointments and meetings to reach their families. People could not afford to spend long hours in telling every detail of their daily life.
The second on is more technology-savvy. This category of people use internet and smart phones to read news and watch news, upload and download documents. The third one is the more advanced category that uses this tool in all the daily routines starting from making phone calls to blogging and web mastering.
A very interesting point to shed light on is before it was hard to speak about some serious social problems that were considered taboos and they are still somehow. For example, in the past it was hard to tackle the issue of the single mother in public or in Mass -Media. However, thanks to TV and internet people have raised this issue and gave it exposure to the point that the government finds itself more compelled than ever to take women’s demands more seriously.
Moroccans are among the most users of internet and social media in Africa. However, very little of them use it for educations and scientific research as some reports claim that the word sex and prone come in heading research of Moroccans and other people of the Arab world.