Screen addiction
Mak Archives, courtesy: Daily Dawn, Karachi (2012) In one of the panel discussions held as a part of a global conference at a private degree awarding institute of Karachi, recently, the panelists explicitly highlighted the challenges of raising teens in the rapidly evolving digital landscape, suggesting for creating an accelerated awareness among parents, children and their teachers about the risk of premature or prolonged exposure of children to smartphones or tablets. They feared that the screen addiction may lead the teenagers towards a situation which might render them socially unfit or make them undermined souls. This was in addition to what the leading physicians have been warning about the negative health impacts of excessive use of mobile phones on humans, particularly in terms of the reported electromagnetic radiation emitting from mobile phones and related digital equipment. How much to use digital devices is a forewarned issue in other parts of the worl...