Harmful Effects of Internet

The average number of searches per day on Google is growing day by day. Earlier it was 9,800 in 1998 which has been raised over to 4.7 trillion.

This may not surprise you since we’ve all come to appreciate the thrill of instant information. What we want is the convenience to have the sum of all knowledge at our fingertips but we can’t deny the fact that the “Internet effect” is changing the way we think.

A human brain is naturally designed to use the information stored to facilitate critical thinking. This information is stored as long term memory.

We need these unique memories to understand and interact with the world around us. If we rely on the internet to store our knowledge, we may be losing an important part of our identity.

How the Internet Affects Students Performance & Behaviour

Today, almost everyone is connected to the internet. Even children can be found busy on their own laptops and students nowadays have their own mobile phones. So there is nothing to wonder about how the internet is weaving lives of people.

Almost every student relies on the internet for many things such as socialization, study, entertainment, and current affairs.

As it brought some positive changes in spite we can’t deny that it is doing more harm than good Positive is while the internet can be a reliable resource to help them with their work and school projects but there are many negative implications.

Social skills (face to face direct interaction) are not exercised

At the stage of a student, children used to learn about the world around them which is now being affected by the internet as face to face social skills are not exercised.

While the Internet is supposed to bring people together with the fact that people only talk online instead of making an effort to meet each other. The internet affects students by depriving them of genuine communications.

Losing creativity

Because everything can be found on the internet, students are not making efforts to use their creativeness when it comes to school projects, reports, or presentations.

Students are not making efforts or looking into more ways to find answers to homework, or even to their own questions. They look for ready-made answers from the internet. This kind of behavior breeds the culture of cheating.

Students are not left more attentive because they can get all information that they need with just a single click of a button.

They even don’t know the time they are wasting on the internet instead of studying is losing their self-thinking capability.

They are feeding themselves with an excess of information that is not meant to be taken.

They used to surf the internet for information that they can’t even retain or remember after hours in a session.

The time and energy which they are spending on surfing just give them artificial satisfaction, but if used doing more worthwhile and productive things, it can give them better results.

Less involvement in the family

While surfing stuff on the internet we are also taking unnecessary information which let us to spent lots of time and energy. Excessive intake of data makes us tired and steals away time. Instead of enjoying time with family, we used to waste time with devices even while on the dining table.

Staying up late

Some students stay up late at night just poring over random things on the internet. This is very harmful to the growing minds of students. Also, when they wake up the next day, they have low energy and tend to not pay attention or even fall asleep in class.

Internet addiction

Spending more time online have increased the risk of developing internet addiction. It can also impact the skills and the life of students. The excessive intake of mindless data can lead to vulnerability of addiction.

Moral corruption

Yes, we can find anything on the internet and this is also true for inappropriate things. Students who stick themselves with the internet are exposing to material that can corrupt them which can result in bad mental and behavioral development.

In this case, the internet affects students by feeding them unfiltered information.

How Internet Addiction Can Affect Your Physical Health

Internet addiction can lead to delay and disorder in sleep as we are unable to resist turning off your computer; as always find another page and link to visit. We intended to do a quick email check and slowly it turned into hours o wandering around the internet.

It has been proven in studies that those with internet addiction are more likely to have an irregular bedtime than those without the addiction.

The Effects of the Internet on Mental Health

Nowadays people at restaurants are found busy with their cell phones, toddlers are on iPads using Facebook, Instagram etc. We never think that how the internet is causing harm to our private lives and what it has already changed.

A team of Australian researchers conducted two studies and found that compulsive internet use by adolescents leads to poorer mental health.

A Swansea University study found that heavy internet users experience psychological symptoms of withdrawal when they stop using. Studies also show that overfeeding information affects up to 20-30% of people.

Privacy Harm

Everyone’s privacy is greatly harmed by the internet. Some applications ask us to give information that can be sold to other sites for commercial purposes. As we can even deny because it is absolutely mentioned in terms and conditions we used to fill before the use of any application.