Today is the era of technology, technology has surrounded us everywhere. If the technology around us stops working even for a while, then all our work comes to a standstill. Just imagine, if someday your computer, laptop, mobile etc. stops working or gets damaged, what will be your situation? Even when such thinking comes, you start facing problems. It is not that this has happened only with you, but it happens with almost everyone these days. Not only mobile laptops, machines like oven mixer etc. in our kitchen, geysers in our bathroom, apart from this, many techniques related to Artificial Intelligence have captured us and our lives.
If we say that today’s technology, be it internet or anything else, has made us its slaves, then it would not be wrong. In a way it has hacked our lives. Many researches have also been done on these, the results of which have been surprising. A research revealed many diseases which are caused by excessive use of internet and internet. Read Negative Imports of Technology.
Technology addiction can harm you
Internet Addiction
Internet addiction has become a major problem of today’s time under Impact of Technology on Human Life. You will be shocked to know its figures. If we talk internationally, about 6% of the world’s population is suffering from this problem of internet addiction.
According to data released by London-based Anti Kearny Global Prespective Management Consulting Firm, 53 per cent of Indians use the internet every hour.
Not only this, you will be shocked to know that India’s figures are more than the global figures of using internet every hour. While 53% of Indians use the internet every hour, this figure is 43% in the world context.
According to this research, Internet addiction, which has now become a deadly disease, is actually posing the biggest threat to India because people of India have started using the Internet more than any other country in the rest of the world.
If we talk about other countries, the figure of this addiction in China is 36%, while in Japan the figure is 39%.
This research conducted on some ten countries proved that now internet addiction is taking the form of a mental illness.
In countries like America, Internet abuse disorder has been recognized as a fatal mental illness. We also need to understand the negative effects of technology.
Phantom vibration syndrome
Evidence of the occurrence of this disease is found when you often start having such misconceptions that the phone kept in your pocket or the phone kept in your bag is not vibrating.
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology researched this disease and discovered that about 99 percent of mobile consumers involved in this research feel this kind of vibration.
Problem of selfitis
Selfitis has also become a serious problem of today’s tech generation. This problem has increased due to the selfie camera present in the mobile.
Nowadays, people are seen busy taking selfies and pictures all the time, this habit increases so much that it becomes a problem in future.
In a research conducted at Nottingham Tent College, London, researchers found that people who are not satisfied with taking 4 to 5 selfies may suffer from the problem of selfitis.
Apart from London, research conducted on the same subject at Tyagaraja School of Management in Tamil Nadu, India, revealed that people suffering from the problem of selfitis try to improve their mood, dominate others or go ahead of others. Many times they take selfies and pictures.
During the research, three levels of the problem of selfitis were found, under which in the first level a person has the habit of taking more than 3 selfies but he does not post them on social media.
In this research, in the second level of self-examination, one has to take a selfie and always post it on social media and after this comes the third level, in this, selfies have to be taken every now and then and updated on social media.
Problem of Namophobia
Namophobia is a problem in which after getting addicted to the phone, there is a possibility of something bad happening in the world if the phone is not with you.
Due to this, the person suffering from this problem keeps checking his phone again and again and also feels uneasy when the phone is not nearby.
The biggest symptom of this disease is that one cannot live without a mobile even for a moment.
Facebook depression
This problem occurs due to excessive use of Facebook. Due to this, you start suspecting less likes and bad comments on your posts on Facebook.
Apart from this, when you get less likes on Facebook, an inferiority complex also starts developing inside you due to which you gradually go into depression.
In the era of Social Impact of Information Technology, such problems are being seen a lot these days.
Social Life
In this problem, there is so much addiction to technology that the person suffering from it cuts off from social life and connects himself with the technical world.
According to estimates, about 2 lakh people are currently suffering from this problem.
After suffering from this problem, it takes many years for the victim to get out of it.
In today’s article, you learned in detail about many health related problems caused by self-reliance in technology increasing in today’s generation and also learned what effect Impact of Technology is leaving on all of us. If you also feel that you are troubled by any of these problems, then become aware of them and before becoming more serious, consult a psychiatrist for this.