In the modern world there are many problems people have never had before. With development of digital technologies humanity received not only much more convenient living but and many problems in addition. Our parents and grandparents did not have as much opportunities to communicate with each other and to learn as we have now. Also, they did not know what is computer or Internet usage in contradistinction to our generation, but they did not know what is addiction to this inventions, too.
Today social media world is becoming one of the most important and irreplaceable part of life. People have a tendency to be on-line constantly. They are afraid of missing something. That is why they desire to observe and contact (Weckler, 2015). At least this addiction takes people all their spare and even constrained time, which leads to serious relational, occupational and social problems. Moreover, there are many studies which showed that dependency on social media may cause some health problems such as mental ones. Finally, all this problems together sometimes leads to tragedies.
First of all, I think that the culture of computer and the Internet using should be taught by parents. A great responsibility of their child's safety lies on them. Limitation of computer using and provision some activities in their power. Heavy and uncontrolled Internet and social media usage may interferes with daily life of a person. The Internet usage among students is 92,3% and that affects such spheres of life as business and personal life (Liu, Bao, & Wang, 2010). That is why firstly family and then a person oneself should concern about it.
Besides, it was found the strong connection between uncontrolled Internet usage and some health problems. It was always known that all day long computer or cell phone using worsens vision. And nowadays there is certainly proved that in some cases it leads to five kinds of psychiatric disorders such as manic-depression and feeling of loneliness (Malcolm, 1998). There are many studies about the link between Internet addiction and mental illnesses, for example "the journal Psychopathology, found 1.2% of people surveyed were 'Internet addicts.' and many of these were depressed" (McNamara, 2010). I think it is an extremely high level of people who suffer these problems because of inventions which was created to help them.
Sometimes consequences of Internet or computer addiction become even more serious than mental illnesses. In some cases people cannot manage this trouble themselves. There is even a special camp for Internet addicted in China (Zigor Aldama, 2015). And this is not the only institution for Internet addiction. For instance, in South Korea there are more than 190 hospitals specially for treatment of digital addicted patients. They were opened after 10 deaths during playing video games (Kirkey, 2008).
In my opinion, the problem of any kind of digital addiction is the one of the most urgent today. People should not be amenable being dependent to virtual life and computer. It is not a problem of anybody separately but humanity at all. Uncontrolled usage of internet, cyberbullying, “Facebook depression” and other consequences of the addiction are not appropriate for our modern world. If we have found the way to create not only helpful and uniting inventions as computer and the global network we should find a way to protect people from them, too.
References:
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Hey, Julia. I've read your blog and I can say that the topic which you chose is really similar to mine. The problem of addiction to social media is more than just serious. Reading your posts about current events how some people even died from taking selfies, I was shocked, how people can run serious risks only because of their desire to post something on social media. I absolutely agree with you, people really do need to be careful and avoid addction to such a thing as social media. Thank you for your blog!
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