Technology has transformed the way you communicate, live, and work. By clicking one button now, you can do transactions, learn skills, and find your love. With time, the generation has taken a drastic jump in technological advances. Most of them are always busy with tablets, smartphones, social networking platforms, and so on. The addiction to technology has been useful but also has affected human brains to a great extent.
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More distracted and shorter attention spans
Before the existence of iPhones, iPad, or any other technological device, an average person had 12 seconds as an attention span. At this point, a person has an attention span of only 8 seconds. Well, you will be surprised to know that a goldfish has an attention span of 9 seconds. With all the distractions, it has been not easy to concentrate on the task. Sometimes it is because of the message alert light on your phone, or new trends that you are following or a viral message. All this has impacted to shorter attention span and more distractions.
You can’t sleep
The addiction to technology has lead to sleepless nights. People are now more accustomed to falling asleep with your smartphone glowing softly by their bed. Others might end up with laptops or iPhones. According to neuroscience, it has been suspected that the glowing light emitted from the smartphone, laptops, mess with the sleep-inducing hormones because of which you are not able to sleep properly. Your eyes have now become sensitive to the alert light of your smartphone. It makes it difficult for you to fall asleep, especially for those who have insomnia.
Tech addicted
Due to the addiction to technology, people have become more addicted to tech. You stop your work to check your phone, which leads to losing a lot of time. People feel an individual gratification while looking at the messages or notifications because of which you can see people spending hours scrolling social media pages. Some people also spent hours playing video games or watching videos. Technology has made everyone so addicted that people hardly have time to play or even go for a walk.
Multi-tasking
While it seems to be quite good, but at times, it can also get you in trouble or even lead to an accident. With the addiction to technology, most of them have been able to do multitasking like texting; you are also continuing your work, watching a movie while texting, etc. At times, when you are walking, you tend to reply to a message. In this instance, if you are not careful, it can lead to an accident. Many might also think that by doing this, you are increasing your efficiency, but the fact is you are reducing the ability of your brain. You make it difficult for the brain to retain the information.
Less face-to-face interaction
There has been low to negligible interaction between people. Most of them feel so tired and lethargic that they tend to send messages to people even when they are in the same house. When you go on a train ride or an excursion, you see that everyone is busy with their phones. Thanks to addiction to technology for turning people into zombies. Isn’t it? Many times, you will see that you are relying on EMOJIS to reply a friend or express your feelings. It has lead to an increase in less interaction. It has lead to less interaction between people.
Depression
Most of the work is not carried out on laptops. It also leads to over-using. Over-using of technology has increased in damaging the way the brain works. It affects the way the brain performs decision-making, emotional processing, and so on. Addiction to technology has also lead to an increase in the number of suicide cases, depression, anxiety, and so on.
Colored dreams
According to research, it has been found that people who grew up watching black and white television used to dream in the same. But now people are experiencing their dream in color. It is only because of the addiction to technology.
Popcorn brain
Constantly using the technologies, like smartphones, have made the brain accustomed to the popping sound and also fast streaming of information. It has made it difficult for people to handle the slower pace of life, which is termed to be popcorn brain.
Substance usage
Tech addiction has also lead to an increase in an abusive manner. It means people are behaving in the same way drug and alcoholic people do. However, this is not at all good behavior. It can also lead to many more brain disorders.
More forgetful
According to research, it has been found that compared to seniors, Millennials are more forgetful. It is because of the overutilization of technology. Teenagers or youths are taking more time to remember what they learn. Not only that but also they take more time to learn new things. They also need to continuously revise it again and again so that they do not forget.
Fear of missing out (FOMO)
Fear of missing out (FOMO) is also defined as the blend of anxiety, irritation, and inadequacy. Nowadays, social media is flooded with photos, posts raging parties, status, travel check-ins, and many more things. It is a waste of time and can distract someone less. With this, you can say that people are now more interested in social media instead of enjoying their real life. They also tend to miss out on a lot of things.
Goodbye thoughts!
Technology also has a lot of benefits. It all depends on an individual whether they are interested in the benefits or the adverse effects. The best way is to maintain a balanced life by eliminating the negative effects such as sticking to your smartphone for hours, scrolling social media pages without any reason, and so on. Performing yoga and meditation for at least 30 minutes can also help you a lot.
