Is minecraft safe for kids? Is minecraft addictive?
“He got so hooked to (online) gaming that he skipped his meals, started living like a recluse and even stopped attending school, and it was then that the case was brought to my attention” – remarked prominent Child Psychologist with a premier school in Mumbai about a case of Minecraft addiction that was escalated to […]
Is Social Media Good or Bad for Students?
Is Social Media good or bad for students? The answer to this is not all Black and White. Let’s first look at the numbers from Pew Research Centre and Common Sense Media. The data shows some alarming trends. · 92% of teens go online daily, and 24% say they go online “almost constantly.” · 76% […]
Fake news in India is the highest in the world. Why?
Fake News in India or abroad creates the same challenges. Whether it be the presidential elections in distant US, and 2019 Lok Sabha elections in India, social media is now used as a tool in fighting all elections. While the 2016 US elections were embroiled in controversy for using the services of Cambridge Analytica to […]
Eight effective ways to prevent Nomophobia or treat it
Before we try to prevent Nomophobia, let’s understand it. The term NoMophobia was coined in 2008, in the wake of a study commissioned to research the link between mobile phone usage and anxiety disorders. The word, a portmanteau of No-Mobile- phobia, has in its name an element of the absurd. Surely, an inanimate object hasn’t […]
How to reduce social media use – 12 simple proven steps
The world is hooked on to social media : the average person spends about 145 minutes on social media every day. Cumulatively, social media users the world over spend a total of 3.7 trillion hours on social media in 2021 – equivalent to more than 420 million years of combined human existence. 42% of the […]
How much screen time is healthy for a teenager?
How much is too much screen time for kids & preteens
Who makes our smartphone addictive? And why?
Is your smartphone addictive? A recent study by Vivo in eight Indian cities proves this. 84% smartphone users check their phones within 15 minutes of waking up. 46% people pick up the phone at least five times in an hour-long conversation. 70% of Indians feel that increasing addictive smartphone usage – which is on the […]
How much screen time is healthy for eyes?
“Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” C.P. Snow, New York Times, March 15, 1971 One such stab is the back could be the impact of screens on our eyes. The question that begs an answer : How much […]
Big Tech is Big Brother: watching us. Programming us.
In 1949, a man in his forties created a monster. He named this monster “Big Brother”. Men and women of his time called that man cynical and delusional. But today he is called a visionary because the monster he had imprisoned in a work of fiction has escaped. The Big Brother that George Orwell created […]