Introduction
It looks like you are reading some text from the screen again? Perhaps this is not the first page for today, not at all the first in the last week and not at all the first ever. The Internet in human life has become a prerequisite for existence. Everything would be fine, but the virtual world, disregarding the powers of a trusted post, begins to cross the line and give birth to computer addiction.
About how popular the Internet has become, what entails tight wrapping in modern networks, and how virtual communication affects us, and rumor will go in this reading matter.
Internet in human life
A minute of statistics:
- 4 billion people have access to the Internet.
- 5 billion have a mobile phone.
- 3.5 billion users are registered on social networks.
- Every day, the Internet audience is increasing by 1 million users.
- 6.5 hours a day is the average time spent online for a person from the CIS.
Admittedly, we got a little carried away in our quest to be online. For example, you can ride in a vehicle looking at people, half of them will not meet your gaze due to their involvement in their display. You can go to a restaurant and see how friends sit opposite each other, illuminating their faces with devices. You can also walk through the park and notice how the owners walk their dogs, not forgetting to systematically discharge the smartphone battery. In the same place, on the benches, someone will enjoy nature, watching the news of friends on the social network.
Wherever we go, our phones are always with us. And they also have relatives: PCs, laptops, tablets, TV. Recently, this family has become more and more numerous, because now they go to the Internet from a player or a wristwatch, and even clothes can do it in the military.
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What is computer addiction
All cooperation has its own price. No matter how much a person boasts about modern achievements, he often turns out to be unable to cope with them. One of these manifestations is an obsessive desire to live in an embrace with some device, while devoting free time to it.
According to the Internet, dependence on computer technology is observed in 50–90 percent of people (the range is given by various criteria for assessing and forms of addiction). This means that at least half of people are not fully able to control their interaction with the virtual world.
Maybe not everything is so cloudy? Everyone is addicted to oxygen, for example, but that doesn't pose much of a problem for us. Let's consider what impact the Internet can have in a person's life with such generous attention paid to it.
Why is computer addiction dangerous?
Lack of control
People are always unhappy when they are constrained by something. We do not like bosses for their orders and leadership. We hate stupid laws that, for some reason, belittle our rights.
Here, the virtual world gently offers a person freedom in self-expression, because the activities of people on the network are practically not controlled. Where does this all lead to? We stopped thinking about our actions. How much anger, hatred and other negativity people leave online.
Cluttering the network
On paper, the Internet looked like an ideal source of information, but here, too, the lack of outside control did its job. A person today generates an insane amount of publicly available content that is simply not needed by anyone but himself.
There are so many pointless sites, spam, advertisements, photographs and thoughts that do not pursue any goal at all. Because of this, the Internet ceases to be useful, because it becomes more and more difficult to find what you need among the trash.
Information overload
A little more statistics: there are about 1.2 billion sites on the Internet at the moment, and the total amount of information on the network doubles every two years. Together with this, the uncontrollable curiosity of a person is combined as well as possible.
Our brains daily process huge amounts of information from news, videos, podcasts, pictures and other information delights of the Internet. As a result, the mind becomes clogged with useless information.
Example with news
News makes up a significant part of the human intellectual diet on the web. But at the expense of them, we cannot even be sure of the reliability of the data, because news is written by people based on what they saw or from the words of other people. And the state can also make its own adjustments to the text, because it is so convenient to control the minds of citizens who swallow dozens of news a day.
From here we already see several points of passage, passing through which information can be distorted beyond recognition. The question is: how reasonable is it to pay such attention to news, and what does it do?
The brain is busy
Our boundless love for data, in cooperation with computer addiction, affects the brain's ability to be a useful tool. For the perception, processing and storage of information, you need some resources. Now they are spent on assimilating what we find on the Internet in large volumes.
Any sensible thought needs space, but if our brain is constantly busy, there is no room in it to generate ideas necessary for life. Because of this, we do not know how to qualitatively analyze the emerging situations in order to make decisions, respectively, we do not know how to solve problems, in which direction to move further.
Zero observation
Why is information on the Internet in demand? Here we strive to follow what is happening in the world, keep up with it, not be lagging behind. The intention is laudable, but it is very strange to realize it by reading news on the Internet for the reasons described above.
From the pages of the sites, we can know about the political relations between countries, but at the same time we have no idea what the birds that sing outside our window look like. It is physically impossible to observe the world by looking at the smartphone screen. We prefer someone else's words to our eyes - this has nothing to do with observation.
Loss of identity
There are millions of stories, opinions, thoughts and other vital information on the Internet. Analyzing all this, a person takes a piece from one place, a piece from another source, and in this way collects his vision of the world piece by piece. True, in this process he loses such an expensive thing as his own opinion. Personality is a key human weapon, we talked about this in an article on the problem of growing up.
The Internet in people's lives acts as a teacher of moral theft. They copy everything that is possible from each other, instead of observing and creating their own. We strive to be similar and began to fear our own uniqueness, although our greatness lies in it.
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Search for ready-made solutions
Taking advantage of the fact that the Internet is the largest knowledge base of the planet, we love to look for ready-made solutions in it. For example, ready-made solutions to our problems that we are no longer able to generate ourselves.
Search queries highlight this concept very well. Now among them you can find many such: "How to hammer a nail correctly", "How to communicate with people", "How to be yourself", "What to do if bored", "How to start acting." Even 20 years ago, all these questions would have caused bewilderment among the interlocutor: "Why are you asking, just try and you will understand everything."
All this speaks of our intention to ride on sleds without lifting them up the hill, but this does not happen. Now we are trying to obtain information, ignoring the most accurate and reliable tool for obtaining it - experience. All people are different, they have their own thinking, a set of personal qualities, capabilities and are in different conditions. Therefore, the experience of one person described on the pages of the Internet is far from always applicable to another.
Fear of problems
Computer addiction has made actions an uncomfortable state of being for humans. We do not like to move, this is confirmed by the services and services appearing on the network. Now you can order anything without leaving your home: food, massage, you can even build yourself another house in another place, without crossing the threshold of your apartment.
As a result, we have difficulties in solving problems. Firstly, we cannot understand what to do with them, and secondly, acting without specific instructions is somehow scary. So after all, it is possible to make a mistake inadvertently, and fail - the omnipotent gentleman on the Internet will clearly not subscribe to this.
No action, no experience, no development, this is a conversation about why people are lazy, and what it costs them.
The insignificance of virtual acts
Someone here may object, they say, in the virtual world, a person also acts a lot. Indeed, almost everything can be done on the network, the only pity is that the electronic world is a world without consequences, and virtual actions are just a parody of actions in reality.
Of all the turning points in your life, has anything happened on the internet? What, in essence, changes the next comment left, a new uploaded photo, or another watched video?
Wasteful attitude to time
We all love to talk about the lack of time, money or effort that we need to live well, and at the same time we continue to sit our pants on the net. 6.5 hours a day is 1/3 of the wakefulness that can potentially be wasted. Therefore, the Internet steals in a person's life not only his personality, but also time.
Impact on health
Another "bonus" of computer addiction is low physical activity of people, which does not have a very cheerful effect on health. It is difficult to be on the move, being involved in a phone or computer.
How long have you seen a person with a straight back? How often do you meet people with glasses? Movement is a way to maintain the tone of the body. A person's activity directly affects his hormonal background, which can determine our mood or the behavior of internal organs and body systems.
In general, it is not so easy to love the world, feeling imperfect and moving some extra ten pounds of weight with you. A healthy person rejoices more often, but staying healthy with the temptations of the twenty-first century is not easy.
virtual communication
Computer addiction, expressed by constant presence at the screen, has led to the fact that people are the easiest to find on the net. Therefore, the Internet in human life is a widespread means of communication.
What we are missing
We have facial expressions, body language, aura, mood, intonation, tactile sensations - how many different tools nature has given to a person so that he can share his thoughts with other people in an accessible and fuller manner.
Can a parenthesis replace a smile? Can human energy be transmitted through wires? Is it possible to send intonation and gestures by text message? So what do we end up exchanging, and can this be called communication?
By sending a message, we give the interlocutor less than we could, forcing him to do the same in response, although the essence of human relationships is the opposite.
Having made the choice in favor of virtual communication, we have personally deprived ourselves of a powerful arsenal of tools. People began to understand each other worse, because at the exit from another person there is only a faceless text that can be taken as you like, completely ignoring the idea embedded by the author.
Virtual communication also means an even deeper involvement in the Internet, because now it is also a way to spend time together.
Neglecting people
The availability of communication through a couple of clicks at any time of the day began to affect personal meetings. They not only became rare, but their quality also suffered. We have learned to ignore the attention of our neighbors by sticking to the phone during real communication. And this despite the fact that other people are one of the aspects of the meaning of life.
Being able to be in touch with someone all the time teaches you to value their attention less. It is difficult to value something if you always have it and in abundance - a simple principle of human values. Therefore, during a personal conversation, we calmly hang out in our smartphones, barely exchanging meaningful dialogues. It doesn't matter - after all, then the unsaid can be sent by message, and everything will seem to be in order.
Loss of communication skills
In virtual communication, you do not need to intonate, you can think as much as you like while writing a text. Well, in case of inattention, you can simply return to the previous message and read it again. This method of communication is primitive, but more common, so a person automatically adjusts to it, losing a number of abilities.
Alas, because of this, I lost live communication. People now speak monotonously, while weakly expressing their own emotions. Speech is usually replete with parasitic words and awkward pauses trying to find the right phrases. The ability to listen to the interlocutor also suffered.
You need to go somewhere, look good, smell good and do not forget to follow the words, because in a personal conversation they are not a sparrow. And you also have to give up the benefits of the virtual world for this time. In short, real communication has become too difficult for us.
Disunity
Here's a funny paradox, the Internet was designed to unite people from different parts of the Earth, but instead, it divides even those sitting at the same table. The last stop of our exciting excursion is solitude.
Remote communication allowed a person to distance themselves from society. And society in the traditional view ceases to exist, because everyone is on his own.
Personal conversation due to the lack of sufficient practice has become stressful, for this we are already too tight and reluctant to make contact. So the main way of receiving and providing attention was lost, and virtual communication in this capacity does not shine at all, which confirms the feeling of isolation and the absence of other people on the planet.
Logically, this state of affairs should, on the contrary, bring people together again and convince them to interact more often with each other. But while the Internet is at hand, we continue to trust it to solve the problem of loneliness, so we immediately start watching some funny movie, playing games and continuing to fuel computer addiction.
Conclusion
The purpose of this speech is not to create anti-advertising to the Internet. Nobody agitates to chop fiber optic with an ax and call a provider with sad stories about a broken life.
This is just a visual aid on the topic "What impact the Internet has in a person's life." The current state of affairs is definitely worth improving, but this is a topic for future narration, but for now we leave you room for thought, because as someone once said - you don't need to know more than you need to.
At the Top of Mind Team