How to reduce your screentime.

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Internet Era!

As we are globally shifting from 4G to 5G, the society we are living in is also developing at an erratic speed. From newspaper to news application, from letters to WhatsApp Messenger apps, from telephone to live video calls, our society is shifting and developing on the path of modernity. With the rapid growth of social media, users are spending significant amount of time on various social networking sites to connect with friends, to share information, for educational purpose and for entertainment and common interests.

In 2018, around 36% of households had a Smartphone and it increased to 74.8% in 2022. As we know that the content consumed by population include favorable as well as unfavorable on internet. Usually it provide information related to "virtual learning" mode and educational purpose, shopping, gaming short clip videos for entertainment purpose, digital literacy social media apps and so on.

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Since it is obvious that excessive use of any of the online content on smart phones may harm at certain degree and researchers had also studied that digital distraction seems to create a non ideal environment for the refinement of higher cognitive function in critical period of child and adolescents brain development. The developing prefrontal cortex of the teenage brain is still mastering tasks such as impulse control, emotional regulation and the assessment of consequences and risks.

 Impact on Human Brain

Day by day the span of attention, patience and concentration level of adolescents decreasing and reduction of social interaction, loneliness and intolerance of other’s opinion may affect their cognitive functions, academic performance and various aspects of their life and it will bring down their quality of life as well.

The more time spent on internet is associated with higher self-reported depression scores and also negatively affects subjective well-being.

In most of the studies it was mentioned that our behavior and attitude was extremely affected by excessive use of social media and socio-digital engagement, some people feels high anxiety and bodily dissatisfaction if they don't spend time on social media and it will occur because of isolation in their real life so they spend excess time on social networking sites for social approval and connectedness. As we are not aware but it will affect our mental, social as well as physical health also after looking on overall aspects we can conclude that online content and Digital technology have the potential to impact human life many ways so we need some application based solutions in our daily life to improve the quality of life so let's learn some strategies of how to integrate and habituate healthy "digital practices" in our routine life.

 Some Useful Techniques(How to Reduce Screen time)

- First of all we can practice "digital detox" one day in every week that means we need to spend less time on digital gadgets and it is obvious that it will so hard for many of us so we need to start with a small goal. Like in first week we need to make a target of using less than 5 hours in next week less than 4:30 hours and so on and one more thing is that you can also navigate your performance in your own phones by specific settings and continue to improve yourself.

- In the life full of Hassel we need to adapt a good habit which is "meditation”, by performing meditation you will definitely notice so many changes in your life, as your concentration capability will increase as well as focused and instant attention and mental performance will also increase.

- In next step you can make a habit to take a short 5 minutes break after every 45 minutes of using gadgets, it will give you some rest while work and enhance your working capabilities.

-  You can also do more calculative work on your own without using calculator on daily basis for mental exercise, it will enhance your grasping ability, quick decision and speed too.

- Some people have bad habits of playing online games for long time, so they need to replace this habit by playing outdoor games instead of online games.

- While in mean time you can also improve your cognitive functions by solving puzzles and quizzes.

- Read novels, comics, books and try to maintain your childhood hobbies like arts and crafts too.

Conclusion

So here we have discussed so many strategies that will definitely help you to improve your mental as well as social health, so try to adapt these techniques in your daily life and improve it on your own self.