Story on phone addiction of kids
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SHIKHA WAS A BRIGHT STUDENT SHE WAS SMART, PRETTY AND OBIDIEND BUT SHE WAS ADDICTED TO PHONE.SHE WAS ADDICTED TO APPS LIKE FACEBOOK, snapchat etc. SHIKHA MADE MANY FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK ONE OF THEM WAS MOHIT SHIKHA WAS MESSAGING MOHIT ONE DAY TOUGH HE WAS AN UNKOWN PERSON.MOHIT ASKED SHIKHA IF SHE WOULD LIKE TO MEET HIM SHIKHA HESITANTLY AGREED
BUT AS SOON AS SHE WENT ON THAT LOCATION MOHIT GRABBED HER AND HE TRIED TO KIDNAP HER THERE WERE LUCKILY SOME PEOPLE WHO CAME TO SAVE HER IT TURNS OUT THAT MOHIT WAS A PHSYCO FROM PAST
11 YEARS.
MORAL- DONT TALK TO ANYONE ON SOCIAL MEDIA TILL YOU KNOW THEM WELL
2014 app developer Kevin Holesh moved in with his fiancée. After a hard day at work they would settle down on their couch, smart phones in hand, and lose themselves for a while. Initially, this gave them a chance to unwind, to relax, and drown in the ludic joy of the screen’s calming glow. However, it also took up precious time. Kevin realized that less and less of their spare time was spent in productive leisure, or even doing something exciting, but instead simply fixated on the screen.
After living in distraction for six months, Kevin realized that there was a problem and that he was ‘addicted’ to his phone. So he decided to come up with a solution in a way only he knew how. He was going to design a mobile app to combat his addiction to the mobile phone.
The app eventually became Moment. Moment is a tracker of mobile phone use. It sits silently on your phone, discreetly tracking your phone use and totting up the hours you’ve spent and the activities you’ve carried out on the device.
When he started he found that he was using his phone for approximately 75 minutes every day. Now, he’s limited that to just 45 minutes a day. This app is now available on iOS and Android and comes with a bunch of paid-for features that can help you limit this neurological time-drain.
But that’s not the whole story. Let’s see what else this we can learn here.
Technological addiction
In early 2017 Adam Alter, Associate Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business, released his book Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. His work aimed to expose the underlying psychological and behavioral triggers that have seen mobile phone use and on-screen time increase (now, on average, Americans spend 10 hours and 39 minutes each day across all screens ).
A couple of years ago Adam realized that he was spending too much time on his phone, and was looking for a way to limit it. He could see the impact it was having on his life and how much time was being eaten up by it. So, searching around one day, he found Moment.
Tracked across thousands of Moment users, a picture of our technological addiction, and its increased prevalence, begins to build up. Two years ago, the average time spent on mobile phones was 2 hours and 48 minutes. In 2017 this rose to a whopping 3 hours and 42 minutes. That’s nearly 4 hours in every 24.
However, I grant you, the figure might not be that alarming. We have plenty of free time, so how’s a little skip through Facebook every now and then going to hurt us?
Work, rest and screen-time

This chart, taken from his recent Ted Talk, shows the estimates of how much time is taken up doing things across the average 24 hour day.
The blues shades focus on our core daily activities, like going to work, sleeping, cooking, eating and other survival and necessary activities. White and yellow highlights free time, while the red shows the burgeoning, all conquering tide of screen-time.
In his book, Adam calls this an addiction. The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines it as such: “A primary, chronic disease of brain reward… this is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use other behaviors”, causing “significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationships ”.
In this case, not only is it an activity that takes up is characterized by brain reward, but it’s damaging the relationships we have with people. Indeed, his main concern is a social one, that more and more screen-time will lead to isolation, an inability to adequately interact socially, and ultimately depression.
Good app, bad app
There is an upside though. Thankfully, all that disappearing free time isn’t just used up fruitlessly spinning from one app to another. Smart phones are incredibly useful. They help us navigate the world anew, with fresh perspectives and un-blinkered eyes, they connect us and bind us, and bring new insights and information with a minimum of difficulty.
In fact, Adam’s research shows that we spend an average of 9 minutes per day on healthy, constructive apps that enrich us. However, he warns, 27 minutes per day is taken up on the types of damaging apps that cause fear, isolation and depression, like social media and news sites.