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What are the changes in a person due to constant contact with the internet, mobile, phone?

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What are the changes in a person due to constant contact with the internet, mobile, phone?

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Some of the effects of excessive and irrational use of internet and mobile phones include the following:

  1. Person using mobile phone for a long time remains unaware of his or her surroundings.
  2. The radiation of mobile phones causes several problems like tiredness, headache, insomnia, forgetfulness, tinnitus (buzzing in the ears), joint pains as well as problems in vision.
  3. The radiations affect children more than adults.
  4. Also, continuous use of computers and the internet makes a person solitary and incapable to establish harmonious relations with relatives and other members of the society.
  5. Such habits further make a person self-centered in nature and thereby lead to problems like selfishness.
  6. The person tends to become less sensitive towards others and the long-term effect of such tendency is that he stops helping others and is also not helped by other people when needed.
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