It is true that various electronic gadgets including mobile have become a medium of qualitative change in life in many ways, but in the recent past, many such news have come about the use of social media among children which not only raises the hair but also forces the entire society to think that what will be the condition and direction of our society which is moving away from social values, family values, ideals and traditions. It is not known when the stubbornness of children regarding the use of mobile became an obsession and when this obsession increased the tendency to commit murder and suicide. Many mediums of social media and gaming applications are continuously taking advantage of this addiction, stubbornness, obsession and fascination of children.
The pain of being away from the real in the mirage of the reel has started affecting the lives of children in every way. From checking stats repeatedly to staying updated on various media mediums, the habit of giving rise to a strange restlessness in children, which gradually affects their mental health and changes their entire personality. Children are unable to understand the difference between the virtual and real world and then get entangled in a vortex from which it is not possible to come back.
Being addicted to something means becoming dependent on it for your mental and emotional needs and this is what is happening with electronic gadgets in the context of children. This addiction is more dangerous than any other addiction, which affects everyone from personal to family and social level for a long time. How continuous use of gadgets in childhood or adolescence weakens physically and mentally, can be understood by the fact that the blue light emitted from the screen of mobile or computer stops the secretion of melatonin, the hormone that controls the body clock of our body. Melatonin makes us feel sleepy. But due to its secretion being stopped, we remain awake till late. And when we do not sleep properly, then the possibility of mental stress like depression, anxiety increases.
In the Eastern European country Hungary, a scale called Social Media Addiction Scale has been created. Through this we find out how much someone is addicted to social media. With the help of this scale, it was found that people suffering from social media addiction have very little or no confidence in themselves. Most of them have also become victims of depression.
It is common to use gadgets like tablets or laptops before going to sleep. The percentage of youth and children doing this is very high. Children subconsciously fall prey to the content they see on these electronic gadgets while sleeping.
Many psychiatrists believe that such games create such intense curiosity in children that they start taking it as a challenge and then cross the limits. It is not long ago when an online game Blue Whale created panic in the whole world, many cases of which were seen in our country too. In this game played on mobile, laptop or desktop, the contestants have to complete 50 different tasks in 50 days and after each task, they have to make a mark on their hand. The last task of this game is suicide.
The content of online platforms is designed in such a way that it encourages children to form such ideas about other people’s lives or bodies that are not realistic. Scientists have found that excessive use of social media by children creates the same type of excitement pattern as is generated by other addiction behaviors. Today many children have become victims of WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, YouTube, Instagram addict disorder. This addiction is as dangerous as other addictions but its most frightening aspect is to snatch away the innocence of innocent people, to distance them from family and society, to make them physically and mentally ill and to push their entire future into the abyss.
Children often fall prey to stress posting due to their immaturity. This means that children post anything on social media in a moment of anger and later regret it. But in the meantime, they are exploited, threatened or blackmailed based on the information or picture shared by them and incidents ranging from cyber bullying to sexual abuse take place.
In fact, we don’t know when and how children start using mobile phones. In dealing with these situations, the responsibility of parents is undoubtedly very important and they also need to change their thinking and lifestyle, but it is the collective responsibility of society to understand the seriousness of this problem and desirable efforts should be made at every level. Social media addiction classes should be organized continuously on various aspects of social media use, training sessions should be conducted in academic institutions and our children should be oriented towards family values and social responsibilities from the very beginning, before it is too late.
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