Chandana N
In the 21st century access to mobile is very easy to adolescence, Hence adolescents kill more time on social media rather than engaging in any physical activities like outdoor games or developing their mental skill by playing chess and other mind games. According to the survey administered on youngsters in US in the year 2019, there is a drastic change in the increase of social media addiction compared to 2012. Statistics shows that nearly 70% of the adolescents check out their social media almost constantly and only 19% of the young population do not use social media, As per the recent times addiction to social media must have shot up even higher because of the stress the youngsters go through because of the change in the education system, online classes have been an excuse for the children for more frequent usage of social media, Adolescents suffer from depression, obsessive, compulsive disorder, Anxiety, relationship problems and disturbance in sleep pattern. Increasing loneliness also causes mobile phone addiction. Sufficient attention must be provided to the adolescents to get over their hurdles.
