Influence of Modern Digital Media on Kids

The human civilization and development have never been on the peak like it is now at the present time in terms of science, technology, engineering, human rights and the like. The Argus II like a bionic eye, the successful landing of Curiosity rover on Mars, cloud computing, Jeddah Tower soon to be the tallest building, leaving Burj Khalifa behind, same-sex marriage are some of the many achievements of the modern world. Communication at the same time has played a crucial role in shaping the society and the world. With the advent of high-speed internet connection, smartphones with as much capacity as digital computers and emergence of millions of smartphone apps, the communication among the humans have become just a single tap away on the screen of a gadget. There was a time, when people got most of their news on a daily newspaper, in a transistor or in a television but today the means of communication is changing into more interactive, economically feasible and smart technology such as portable digital computing and communicating devices. Regardless of the age, communication and interaction among the humans are essential considering the fact that we are social animals. The affordable cost of mobile devices has resulted in the ubiquitous use of smartphones and similar devices among the grown-up people. Modern media and means of communication are not only popular among the adults but the young kids have been also enticed to the digital world. It is, of course, good to let young kids be familiar with the modern technology but the haphazard use of latest gadgets have affected the children to great extent. Adolescents and young kids follow what adults do regardless of knowing the value, necessity, and outcome of anything. Young students' demand smartphones with good grades or parent's promise to buy new smartphones with better grades need to be considered wisely in terms of need and uses. The regulations on digital media and internet are nominal and questionable as well. To prove that the user is a human and not a robot, many websites use the images to be selected by the users as asked by them out of arrays of graphics. This is the good security measure in the submission of forms and files in web applications and web pages. However, the age restrictions on social media, adult websites and apps are easy to dupe by users of any age pretending of legally acceptable age. The minimum age required to use the social networking site, Facebook is 13, but there are millions of young kids who have lied their age to pretentiously be older to use the world's most famous social networking site. Young kids come across the violence, profanity, adult contents, fake news, superstitions and surrogate advertisements on the internet due to the irregulated online marketing and online business. This allures young children over their curiosity to try them or use them that in turn impacts in their life affecting study, social life, family, and health. Today's children are the leaders of future so that it is the responsibility and duty of we, adults to build the environment, where our kids can grow with right knowledge, skills, and ability to be competent in upcoming days. Unnecessary use of digital gadgets have distracted young learners from their study and misled them to the wrong path. Young children often go through difficult situations like having suicidal thoughts, depression, narcissism, violent behavior and defiant disorder as a result of misuse of digital media. Improper uses of social media have fueled the social problems like child pregnancy, child marriage with elopement and rape in recent years. The online media, websites and social networking sites have to play their parts of a role in making secure future of children today and tomorrow. Just like new captcha system with the images, the identity cards that verify the age of the users could be enforced so as to stop the deception by its users regarding their age. The latest effort of youtube is commendable with reference to the introduction of youtube kids app both in android and ios environments. An operating system like Emmabuntus especially developed and designed for students and young kids prevent them from browsing adult contents, whereas, with its educational materials such as computer programs related to mathematics, science, English and creative games, kids learn to utilize the digital platform as an aid to their study. The parental guidance for kids in using digital social media is like showing kids the right path with a lantern in our hands at a dark place during night time. Children are inquisitive by nature and considering this fact, as our obligation, we must mentor our kids to use modern media. Childhood is best known for the innocence, freedom, and dearness. Every child should get the chance to live free from any worries and fear with the opportunity to thrive in a prosperous society and contribute to keeping it up in future as well.

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