Digital Health and Wellness

Teenagers are affected by the technology. Before the pandemic, the people and the whole world were based on the internet and social media, but during the pandemic, the people frequently used technology and the internet. Since they have some work to do at jobs or school, they also use this for play or use social media. Using these means frequently is bad for our health, because the led on the screen is bad for our eyes and brain. For example, if you spend a lot of time on the screen, you have problems sleeping or weight gain, also, you have problems with depression or anxiety. Therefore, it is considered that spending 6 or 9 hours is already a lot, but it all depends on your age. Because children under five years old must use the screen for educational use only, but for children over five and adults have no problems with the time they spent in front of a screen. However, always take precautions and responsibilities. We must be responsible with this to avoid physical, mental and family problems. Let's consider that technology is important to humans but also it has consequences for your health, so try to use as little screen time as possible and spend time with family and close friends.

The new generations are more sympathized with technology, this makes they spend a lot of time on their devices, and this may affect their health. Some studies have discovered that the excessive use of devices have negative consequences on the human body but also, technology has a good face: it has helped us to discover this and other amazing things that have improve the medical assistance on the world. So, this is the quandary; technology helps us to discover different methods that have helped to find new medicine advances but, in the same way, it has caused a lot of difficulties of health on humans and other species. For example, technology has helped us to find medical machines and methods that become smaller, faster, and smarter. The medical device industry is making medical practice easier for doctors, more effective for patients, and cheaper for the entire

healthcare system (MacRae, 2016). Otherwise, the visual capacity of people has decrease on a significant way because of the excessive use of technology, the light of the devices hurt the vision of everyone. Also, technology makes us get comfort on our houses and makes us decrease the diary exercise we make, so it has produced new overweight problems and articulation diseases. In conclusion, technology has a good and a bad impact on our health and we need to know how is it going to help us or harm us.

Iam pretty sure you use some sort of social media, don’t you? Nowadays it has become impossible to imagine our daily life without WhatsApp or Facebook, it is even harder to imagine how our society used to be without any sort of social media. This definitely comes with a price; we face the problem of becoming dependent on those technologies. The psychology behind the addiction of social media is a new branch that appeared with the outburst of technology. Scientists are still debating the causes for addiction, but there are already some well-founded ideas. Basically, social media dependency comes by hand with social anxiety and what psychologists call “FOMO” the Fear Of Missing Out. As tons of information surf the internet people feel as if they are always missing something, our profiles get Now that we know the causes of social media addiction let's get to know how it threatens our health. Constant use of social media also represents constant comparison of our lives with others’ lives. This may end up in problems of self-esteem, depression and self-identity. Social pressures may also become causes of major problems. Now, the consequences related to the excess of information are multiple. These new generations are known to have higher indexes of lost in this ocean of information and people derive anxiety from this idea of missing out, developing certain fear and creating the need of constantly making presence online. Another important cause of social media addiction is the overload of information we face in this application. Go ahead and open your Instagram account, scroll down for a minute or two, how many posts did you see? How many were related to the same topic? Scrolling down Facebook or Instagram we come across thousands of posts per day and our brain gets used to this constant flow of information. Then, when trying to focus on just one task it becomes hard to keep on it for a prolonged amount of time. Our brain wants to maintain that pace of information. These are the two main causes for social media dependence (King University Press, 2019).

procrastination, just as stated before, our brain, used to a high flow of information, rewards more looking at social media for hours than focusing on a certain task. It may also rebound on the academic performance, generating a cognitive bias as a result of what is called technostress and exhaustion. Technostress and exhaustion come from three main sources, information overload; the limit of our capabilities to accept information, communication overload; the need of

constantly being checking messages, and social overload; using too much time on social media. Technostress and exhaustion will develop into irritated behavior and bad performance in different areas. Overall, social media can cause severe damage to our behavior and optimal psychological patterns, just as everything, it must be used with sobriety and overall, with intelligence (Lingling, Chenling and Xiongfei, 2019.

Nowadays, children grow up in a world surrounded of technology. From a small age, parents give to their children access to devices and access to use internet without a parental control. Many parents give electronic devices to keep their kids calm or to avoid a bad behavior in a specific place, but they do not have the idea of how harmful is this to the kids. When we are exposed to an early used of a device, we are awakening certain areas of our brain that should not be activated until we are young or adults. An early use of technology will generate a bad behavior and a bad way to relate with others; will generate addiction and dependence on the technology, what is going to keep kids and teenagers in a world out of the reality, in which only the social media, the publications and posts are important. The fact of believe that we live on the internet, make us feel that we do not need the reality, and we start to lose opportunities, people, the contact with others and relationships. For example, when we used to be with our cellphone in the table for the breakfast, we lose the opportunity to know, talk and share with the other person who is with you. Be dependent on technology or any other thing steal the important moments of our live and kill us. Is for this reason that we have to learn how to control the internet and not that he controls you.

There exist some strategies that will help to control the time you spend on the internet and the time that kids spend too. According to Price-Mitchell (2018) some ways to improve child’s and people’s digital health are manage the time you pass in front of the screen, focus on your physical activity, practice stressreduction, spent your time doing activities with others, stablish and organize your time, talk with others about your problems and how technology can help you or harm you. Also, with help of the internet you can reduce the time you spent on the internet: use internet to search information about how to organize your time, download wellness apps and use online health resources. Remember, the technology is good and necessary, but you have to know how to control it and do not get carried away by what you find in it (Price-Mitchell, 2018).

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