Save Xbox generation
A British neuroscientist has sent out a clear warning about rising oddities in the social behaviour of young children because of over-exposure to screen-based technology. Parents of young children must act now to save them from growing up with personality traits like obsessive behaviour, very short attention spans and little social interaction with the outside world because of their addiction to very popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Baroness Greenfield, professor of pharmacology at Oxford University, reveals that because of lesser physical human contact, today’s children, known as the “Xbox” generation because of their addiction to gaming gadgets, social networking, mobile phones and tablets that give them easy access to the cyberworld, are less developed in terms of social skills and emotional reactions to interpersonal relations with people, including their closest kin.
While it may do society little good to try and ban everything that affects young lives so much for fear of simply driving everything underground, the least parents can do is to regulate the qualitative and quantitative use of these gadgets.
While teachers have been warning for some time now that attention spans in classrooms are getting very short because kids are being exposed to too much technology, surveys also reveal that this disturbing trend of dropping concentration levels will ultimately ruin the development of children. While life is far more comfortable, and even secure, because of connectivity, we must as a society be aware of the side effects that may prevent GenNext from attaining their potential.
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