Ever-Increasing Trend of Internet Usage and its Impact on School Aged Children and Adolescents

The usage of internet is increasing rapidly among School aged children and adolescents. The whole world is connected with each other through digital technologies. Now internet has become important domain to connect the whole world. The user friendly nature of electronic gazettes has created revolution in the area of internet and social networking and it has become a preferred domain to share knowledge. Academicians and corporate world also get knowledge from such mediums regarding their discipline. It is being observed that school aged children and teenagers spent significant amount of time in surfing internet for their entertainment but it may adversely affects their academic performance. Adolescents use internet to connect with others and use social media tools, but frequency of misuse of this method is very high whereas knowledge enhancement with this method is quite low. India is also impacted by this rapid growing technology in the field of internet. Transformation of knowledge has become so easy and swift by the use of internet. In the last couple of years, decreasing cost of internet is also main reason in the wake of increasing trend of internet. Many bad aspects are also emerged with this usage of internet. In conceptualizing the advantages and disadvantages of the internet usage, it is blessing as well as curse for mankind. Therefore, the present paper is an attempt to sensitize the people about the ill-effects of internet usage and its benefits for the society.