Do you know that it has caused Anxiety and Depression to many children and teens. No doubt,
it is a most practiced habit or can say, out of the online addiction, that with or without any pop
ups, we keep opening these apps almost more than 50 times a day, just to see how many likes
or followers the post has brought in. Or, just to entertain or infotain yourself by scrolling down
the feed.
With the invention of new social media platforms after Facebook, like Instagram, Twitter,
Snapchat, Tik Tok, and many others, we have seen how the internet has taken over the social
media wave. Especially, the young generation today is very much prone and addicted to them
for the sake of grabbing attention on screens with a couple of likes, comments and shares. In
the lure of becoming popular as a social media star, the competition of gaining more followers is
clearly visible.
When you desire to do so, you are deciding to go public just to grab more eyeballs on your
social media handle. Thus, Maintaining Privacy becomes very crucial. It is a must to cut the
social media for some while in a day at least when you are engaged in some other tasks. Social
media is a part of life not life.
Surely, social media has open doors for everyone in this world to connect with each other. But
with that, we cannot ignore the fact that it has also caused some adverse mental health
conditions amongst everyone, especially the children. When such cases are detected, Child
Helplines are always there to support and guide anyone who is undergoing depression due to
social media influence
According to a recent research, 86% of all the social media platforms are used by the people of
age group between 18 to 29 years. More the phones are getting smarter, the more are the
number of increasing anxiety issues amongst children. Psychologists say, a child who spends
more than 3 hours a day on social media is likely to suffer from poor mental health conditions.
Since they are so much engrossed into the virtual world, it delays their development socially and
emotionally to the outside world.
The increasing depression rates amongst the teens shows that the cause of major
unhappiness and frustration is due to digital media and smartphones. Moreover, teens who
consume any kind of drugs are more prone to go through serious anxiety attacks, Pandemic
has given a spike to the stats here too. But it is upto oneself to maintain privacy and avoid
getting into such experiences. Parental guidance plays an extremely important role here. They
may also take the help of a Child Helpline in such cases.