Internet is the most powerful invention and if used in the positive direction,
internet can prove to be very productive. But, these days, due to the social
networking sites such as Facebook taking over, internet is producing adverse
effects on the students, especially those students studying in college. As it
is rightly said, something that has some positive effects also has some of the
negative effects on the other hand. In this article, we are discussing the top
10 negative effects that internet produces on the students.
10. No Face to Face
Communication
When students are very much
indulged in the usage of internet, they might not be able to achieve face to
face communication with the friends and the family. There are many instances
where students talk to each other on Facebook the entire day and they are in
front of each other in reality, they react like they do not even know each
other. This is a great disadvantage of internet as this reduces face to face
communication among the students. Even the family is ignored by such students
and they tend to sit in front of their laptops or desktops the entire day.
9. Thinking Capacity
Reduced
These days, whenever
teacher gives assignments to students, they tend to search it on the internet
and copy down the facts. But, this is not the right thing to down. This would
reduce their thinking capacity and they just cram the facts listed on the
internet. This also makes students lazier. If this thing continues in the
future as well, chances are there that students would not do anything on their
own and just cram what is given on internet, they would not even try to think
whether the matter given there is actually correct or not.
8. Sexual Exploitation
According to a study
conducted by University of Florida, the students who use internet two to three
hours on a daily basis are likely to fall a prey to sexual exploitation. With
the advent of internet, exploiting small children sexually has become very
easy. There are a large number of sexual predators lying there on the internet
and once a student comes in contact with such people, his mind and thoughts are
affected by that. In the long run, this can produce adverse effects on the mental
health of the student and he is sexually exploited online. In the extreme
cases, student might not be able to tell this thing to anyone.
7. Privacy is disturbed
The more you use internet,
more are the chances that your privacy is disturbed. Hacking the internet has
become very easy these days, hackers are very intelligent and you cannot even
imagine how they are going to use this talent of theirs to spoil your life. Not
only your basic information, but some of your most confidential details might
get into their hands if you do not use the internet safely. Students must
operate the internet under supervision of their parents and even if they think
they are old enough, parents should not allow them to be that much
self-dependant.
6. Addiction
After alcohol and drugs,
internet is the third most addictive thing. Once you fall a prey to this drug
of internet, it is very difficult to come back from there. The internet
addiction can be of any kind, a student might be addicted to the social
networking sites or the gaming sites and in the extreme cases, a student might
even fall a prey to the gambling sites. In the third case, student may even
lose all his family’s wealth.
5. Insomnia
Due to the presence of
internet, some students shorten their sleeping hours. They sit on their laptops
late at night, chatting with their friends or playing games on the online
gaming sites. If this thing continues for a long time, insomnia may occur. This
is a state where a person is unable to sleep. This condition is very harmful as
we all know that proper sleep is a must for good health. Not only it would
affect your mental growth, but your physical growth would also be very much
affected by it. These days, students check their updates on Facebook and Gmail
even in the middle of nights on their mobiles. This also causes problems in the
eyes of the students.
4. Moral corruption
There are many things
available on the internet that should not be in the reach of students. But
internet does not have any hard and fast rule for that. A 5 year kid can
approach the content which only an 18+ is allowed to see. This leads to some
kind of moral corruption among the students. The innocence and purity of the
school students as well as the college students is extremely affected by such
things.
3. Cyber bullying
When students use the
internet to bully other students of the same age group, this is known as cyber
bullying and this is a very negative effect of the internet on the students.
Students feel insulted or embarrassed when someone bullies them and this may lead
to depression sometimes. Mental harassment also comes under this category.
There have been many cases reported where some of the students have committed
suicides as a result of cyber bullying. As the usage of internet is increasing
day by day, cases of cyber bullying are also increasing simultaneously.
2. Wastage of Time
Obviously, the more you sit
in front of your computer, lesser the time you would give to your studies.
Students do not realise this fact soon and when their exams approach, they feel
like a lot of course is yet to be studied and they have wasted all their time
on the internet. In some of the cases, students start failing in their exams
which lead to further depression. Internet is a very valuable resource no
doubt, but if students use it excessively, even this resource can produce very
negative effects.
1. Inactivity
These days, students hardly
do any of the physical exercises. They prefer bikes instead of cycles or
walking. This may cause obesity. And, to add to this problem, internet is
there. Students spend most of their leisure time sitting at one place in front
of their computers and very less movement is done by their body. Lack of any
kind of activity is one of the root causes of all the problems occurring to the
body. Even at night, instead of sleeping, they prefer to waste their time on
the internet. Many of other health related problems may also rise due to
obesity and inertia.
