Why is social media bad for kids : Negative Effects, Mental Health and Care

   Why is social media bad for kids

*ATTERACTION OF KIDS IN THE INTERNET

As we all know that now a days kids are attracting very more in the internet. If we talk about past and earlier time then we will know that earlier time childerns were so different from today childeren. And on that time there was not best facilities of internet and thery were taking interest in helping in the work of there parents and group playing.

And now if we tell that "THE INTERNET ENTERED IN THE BODY OF CHILDEREN", then i think it will not incorrect. As they are taking interest in online playing games, Tik Tok, Facebook, Whatsapp and many other social networking.This is also we know that many school works complete by internet.These are the main reasons to attract the children in the internet.

*Positive effects of internet on kids

I think if we compare in the positive and negative impacts and effects of internet on the childeren we should think about positive impacts and it will not incorrect if i tell that if we use internet in positive way then "INTERNET CAN CHANGE STUDENTS IN ENGINEERS" 

 Using the internet by playing games and learning from it increases creativity and teamwork among children. Internet influence also helps to increase hand-eye coordination. Using the internet for study increases the knowledge and that increases the confidence of the students. With the help of proper guidance and use of the internet, children can learn many new things from it and it also helps them to perform better at school. It also increases their visual intelligence as they learn things from online lectures. These are more benifits by internet

• Hand-eye coordination.
• Educational games that require children to follow objects and interact with them can help their hand eye coordination, also their understanding of how to interact with systems, for example knowing that pressing the right button will invoke the desired action.
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• Access to a wealth of information.
• Children can only learn what is available to them, traditionally parents, friends, school, and the wider community would have been the only gateways to learning. Now the World Wide Web gives them a vast library of material to allow them to discover new things.
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• Language Skills.
• Children can only learn what is available to them, traditionally parents, friends, school, and the wider community would have been the only gateways to learning. Now the World Wide Web gives them a vast library of material to allow them to discover new things.
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• Problem Solving.
• Interactive websites and games help children learn to solve problems as they work their way through the challenges presented to get to the next level. Even simply using the devices makes them more adept at this, learning how to solve problems like programs not working correctly or connection issues.
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• High Quality Content.
• It is important to make sure your children are engaging with high quality content during their screen time, studies have concluded that excessive unsupervised viewing of low quality content show a negative impact was found on play, hobbies, sleep, hygiene and eating habits.Exposure to the right sort of content can be achieved through a number of mechanisms from parental controls to ensure that you are in control of the apps and games your child can download, and child friendly versions of full blown apps such as YouTube for kids. Use in conjunction with talking to your child about the kind of content they should and shouldn’t watch, and monitoring the content they are consuming.

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*NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF INTERNET ON KIDS

The internet, on the other hand, has affected children's communication negatively. Over-dependence on the internet has made the children abandon the traditional face to face interactions. It has led to strained relationships with their families, friends and consequently, has led to difficult communication even in their schools due to stunted development.

Children using the internet are usually sitting for long hours. This affects their health by increasing obesity and making their eyesight to be poor. Sitting for long in front of the computer reduces the time for physical activity and make them not to play outside. It can also make the students isolate themselves from the rest of the world by always locking themselves up in their rooms and thus loosening their social connections.

The usage of the internet affects children psychologically because they are exposed to both good and bad information. They can be exposed to highly violent games and programs. This results in more aggressive behaviors, bullying of others and even becoming robbers. In addition, the constant use of hateful messages on the internet, the presence of pornographic videos and insults affects the mind leading to addiction and other negative vices.

•   Harmful effects on knowledge and belief 

The internet does not only serve to inform people better, it also misinforms ('the problem of misinformation') and informsselectively so as to reinforce beliefs and opinions that people already have ('the problem of selective exposure'). We will review studies of these two interconnected problems, analysing their nature, their prevalence and their causes. The problem of misinformation concerns the factual correctness of information on the internet. Much information on the internet is factual in nature: it concerns statements and other types of information that are verifiably, objectively true or false. This includes, for example, information about the chemical properties of sodium, the age and marital status of the singer Beyoncé, the causes and symptoms of heart failure, and the number of murders in the state of Texas in 2017. We will consider how much false information there is on the internet, how false information spreads, how difficult it is for people to recognise false information, how easily and how often people are lead to believe false information on the internet, and what harm results from (belief in) false information on the internet. Harmful internet use: Impact on culture and society 29 The problem of selective exposure concerns the phenomenon that the information and opinions that people are exposed to on the internet tend to be congenial to their existing beliefs, opinions and interests. They often do not challenge, threaten or expanding them but instead reinforce them. Selective exposure has been associated with two pervasive online phenomena: filter bubbles and echo chambers. Filter bubbles are conditions of information bias and intellectual isolation brought about by personalised search and information retrieval algorithms that selectively guess what information a user would like to see based on personal features like their search history, past click-behaviour, and location. Echo chambers are online discussion forums which contain like-minded individuals that reinforce and amplify each other's beliefs by communication and repetition, thus creating a closed system. We will consider the prevalence of selective exposure on the internet, its main causes, how it affects people's beliefs and opinions, and what harm can result.

CONCLUSION

Here we understood that Internet can be bad or good for us it depends on us that how we use of the internet if we have to grow with internet then we should use internet in the correct way then we learn many different and amazing things from internet but if we use in the wrong way then it will make our future accordingly,

So from today and now we have to take decision for our future that how we want to make it, with full brightness  or full darkness.

THINK ABOUT FUTURE

Experts and stakeholders say the Internet will enhance our intelligence – not make us stupid. It will also change the functions of reading and writing and be built around still‐unanticipated gadgetry and applications. The battle over control of the Internet will rage on and debates about online anonymity will persist.