Negative Effects of Using Computers for Teenager

A number of users of computers have twice in the past decade with more people trying to make things easier for them by their hands on a computer. The teenager should be extra aware of the consequences of using computers because sometimes it creates serious problems and issues for them. Computers can cause harmful effects on society, psychology, and health. Toxic chemicals are used such as lead and mercury in the production of computers. In the manufacture of computers, materials like plastic are also used. Student wants to solve all their problems by using computers, in future, they may be unable to solve their problems without using machines. Computers can also create the long-term effect on the health of people like obesity. Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS) is well-known vision problem which can cause by the use of computers.

 

Some effects of using the computer in society are as follows:

- Teenager loneliness was associated with both increased Internet attitudes and Internet usage. Teenagers who reported excessive uses of the Internet had an extensively higher mean score of loneliness than those who did not.

- The art of face-to-face communication is slowly fading away in friendships. Because of time spent on computers screens with the friends, simple chat between friends is weakened, this makes difficult to recognize the emotion and tone that comes along with another person's words.

- The art of face-to-face communication is gradually fading away in many homes by technological change. Simple chat between fathers and boys is weakening, this makes difficult to know the emotion and tone that come along with another person's words.

- Statistics state that 73%of teens are on a social network, and a surprising 93% go online daily. The percentages of teens that face social and depression problems were much higher.

- Computers can be used to commit crimes such as copyright infringement, pornography, espionage, theft, fraud, terrorism, or fraud. In some examples, existing criminal categories adapt new terms to imitate the computer nature of the crime. Trespass crimes get on a new aspect when the unauthorized access happens in cyberspace.

 

Psychological effects of using the computer are as follows:

- RSI conditions found in teens are connected to the stress of cyclic motions at the computer. When stress repeatedly happens over time, the body's joints don't have the opportunity to get better.

- Almost 50% of people online lie about their personal data. When online friends meet, sometimes in real life person fails to match with that online person.

- The overuse of technologies can really damage their growth in the personal development of a teenager and in the educational and communication department.

- All the time playing violent computer games lead to increased desensitize and aggressiveness teenagers to violence. One survey of school students found that half of their preferred games had violent themes.

 

The most important effect of using the computer is that it affects the study of the students:

 

- Due to excessive use of the computer for playing games and using internet by students, their studies have been neglect through it. Students of dissimilar age confessed that their educational performance suffered because of their attachment to computing. Some students admitted that their school work suffers. It was a hurdle to their degree and they should have been learning books. It detracts from their learning work. They did very weakly at university in the first two years, it was harmful to their coursework and they nearly got thrown out for slashing into the university's Prime system' were the most frequently common answers of those who recognized that they were attaining lower standards educationally.

- It is what parents of adolescents who modify in front of the computer have long panic. Students who use Facebook at the same time as they study get extensively lower grades than those who do not; it is according to psychologists.

- Many students use computers for cheating and it begins in middle school and exceeding through college.

- Educational Communications founded on a survey of the top educational high school achievers selected from the yearly who found that students confessed to cheating during their high school career to get better grades.

 

There are also many effects of using computers on health which are as follows:

- Sitting in an awkward or slumped position, especially as working at a computer, can damage the upper part of the body causing back and neck pain.
- 35% of children do physical activities and they recommend that children should spend more than 50 minutes per day contributing to physical activities. The Weight-Control Information Network advised that parents reduce the amount of time their child spends on playing video games and using the computer.
CONCLUSION:

- Research proves computer vision problems are general. Wherever between 50% and 90% of people who use on a computer screen have some symptoms of vision problem.

- Watching at a computer monitor for a long period on end has become a part of the present workday. And unavoidably, all of that watching can put a real damage to human eyes.

- Computer vision syndrome (CVS) is the name for eye problems caused by computer use. CVS is not one particular eye pain. In its place, the term encompasses an entire range of eye pain and damage experienced by computer users.

- About 10% of preschool children and 15% of 6- to 19-year old are considered obese. The energetic play has been displaced by technology.

 

The mind is also affected by using the technology of computer:

 

- Using the computer in excess can slow the thinking power of human beings. Humans can do all kinds of calculation through the different software and students use office word for making their assignments. Office word can highlight the mistakes so students can easily make their assignment by using their mind.

- There are negative effects on the mind as well as on mental health. It is confirmed that adolescents are the largely affected by social networks. Less than 94 % of teens between 12-19 years use the Internet frequently and the 73 % of the usage it for social networking.

 

Overall, the computer is one of the well known and huge inventions in human being history. This machinery is likely to cause extra harm to human beings and the environment, it does not only create humans lazy mentally and physically but it also exploits them mentally and physically. The manner computers are being planned to do a job, due to lot use of machinery humans are being programmed as well without being conscious of it.

In computers the harmful chemicals cause pollution in the environment and damage it, under-developed countries are filled with garbage that the western world has created but cannot keep them in their own state instead pays other under-developed countries to dispose of it for them.

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