Impact of Electronic media on youth’s health

Do you control your electronic devices or your devices control’s you? Are you addicted to Electronic Media? Have you ever thought about before wasting your precious time on those electronic devices? Using technology is a valuable thing but one should also look at that if you are not getting addicted towards it such as television, mobiles, internet etc. These electronic media have the potential to generate both positive and negative effects and many studies have looked at the impact of television, mobiles, internet society particularly on children and adolescents.

Using electronic media is a marvelous thing as we able to do a lot by using a single device we can listen to music, watch a show, play games, check our e-mails, take pictures and access to the internet. When our parents entered their teens, Television and radio were the main forms of electronic media. Back then, the phone was just for calling purposes only (they carried only voice transmissions and had to be connected to a wall outlet). But with today’s technology up-gradation, we can do ‘N’ number of things just by using a particular electronic device.

 Don’t allow your use of electronic media to interrupt time you have set aside with friends and family, to study or to engage in physical activities such as playing the outdoor game to make their body healthy and fit. You waste a lot of your precious time by sitting in front of the television, smartphones and of course the internet that’s why most of the people cannot get things done because there is no time left for that.

Impact of Electronic media on youth’s health

• Cultivate negative energy

Whether you are watching a television or accessing internet (YouTube) people come into the contact of negativity by watching bad news, violent videos, horror movies, disaster and wars clips which is harmful for the brain especially for teens.  It also effects the thought process of the children and adolescents. It effects the sleep of the people especially children and teenagers as these type of negative horrifying news scares them and they couldn’t able to sleep properly.

• Reduce the creativity power

When we get used to the electronic media a lot, what we do? We just simply take help of electronic media for everything even too little things to. We try to solve everything with our electronic devices without using our imagination and we even stop using our thought process for it which effect the creativity power inside all of us.

• Increase of online crime

Today’s youth is taking the help of internet to commit crime especially online crimes are out of control these day. Few of the case have found that due to the feeling of jealously teenager upload personal clip or fabricated videos of people they don’t like or jealous of them without thinking about the after math of their act.