Social Media Slavery –
Young India
Today, we see most of us using social media and glued to our
mobile phones. Popular social medical
channels are Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and Instagram. These are used by everyone now-a-days, and
out of these Facebook and Whatsapp are most popular. Now apart from these other private
communication apps are also in use.
While the expectation was usage of these were by adults and
for meaningful purpose, but somehow all these mediums have lost their actual
purpose. Another most alarming challenge
is that these are very much accessible to children as well.
There are many negative effects of social media on our youth
and children. Kids at a greater risk of
suffering from hate speech. They would
learn to indulge in aggressive or offensive behavior. They unknowingly put
personal information on these sites and they become easily victim of identify
theft.
As per many media reports, Whatsapp has become one of the
major source of spreading child pornography.
There has been whatsapp group which spread this. Also more worrisome is that children have
easy access to Whatsapp and they are getting exposed to pornography in early of
their age. Two Israeli NGOs discovered
Whatsapp group spreading pornography and brought this to notice of Facebook, who
owns Whatsapp, but no action has been taken.
Similarly, legal age to own a Facebook account is 13 years
but one can find children even below 13 years owning Facebook account, and
again it gives easy access to them to pornography. While Government has banned various porn
sites in India but these are easily accessible through VPN or proxy
servers.
Increased usage of social media among children in impacting their
mental health. It leads to mental health
problems including anxiety, depression, and suicidality. Children face cyber bullying as well on social media Youngsters spend more time on
social media and gaming than real play and get together.
While expectation would be from parents to help their
children to come out of this slavery of social media, but we see parents themselves
being busy on social media. There is real need to divert our children from
over usage of social media to physical activities. We really want a Healthy Young India and not
slaves of social media.
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