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Should Students get Limited Access to the Internet?

Should Students get Limited Access to the Internet?

By Abdullahi IbrahimPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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The Web is one of the great necessities of the present world. The Web is where we can track down data about everything under the sky. It is the most required thing all over the planet. Finance managers, instructors, brokers, understudies, everybody is subject to the web for their work. Regardless in the event that you are a working class individual or a mogul, all you really want is the web, in some cases for your work and some of the time for diversion.

On the off chance that we discuss understudies, there are many purposes of the web in an understudy's life. e-instructional exercises, school projects, test arrangements any a lot more exercises should be possible on the web which can help understudies in their investigations. Yet, the way that abundance of anything can be unsafe is pertinent here too.

Here we will discuss why students should get limited access to the internet and talk about the harms associated with the overuse of the internet by the students.

Effects on their Mentality and Family Life

This is the most significant issue among understudies today. They spend the greatest piece of their day on the web and barely have any connections with their relatives. This prompts feeble family bonds. The understudies who invest the greater part of the energy riding the web end up with an undesirable body because of absence of actual activity, low grades in scholastics since they simply continue to ride pointless things, and a separation from relatives since they lack opportunity and willpower to sit with family and talk.

Understudies disregard their wellbeing, riches, social, and individual life. The main thing they fret over is being on the web. We can see the instances of understudies getting intellectually and genuinely upset because of web enslavement, for instance, in 2018, a young lady from Vietnam was dependent on Facebook and wound up in a psychological medical clinic. Presently she is under treatment. One more case occurred in Taiwan where an understudy kicked the bucket since he played a web based game consistently for 2 days without eating anything. There are vast cases like this event with understudies because of the abundance of the web which reminds us that it is so critical to restrict web access for the understudies.

Adult Websites, Pornography

Understudies need to zero in on their examinations and not focus on pointless and awful things. Yet, on the web, they can undoubtedly get acquainted with pornography sites. These sorts of sites are accessible en masse. There can be an opportunity that understudies can arrive at these destinations coincidentally and get dependent later. As understudies are not full grown to the point of understanding everything, they can be a danger to the young ladies around them. The understudies who are acquainted with erotic entertainment at an early age can perpetrate wrongdoings and assaults. There are many situations where we can see the proof of these sorts of violations by the school or undergrads since they get dependent on these awful sites. The sexual stalkers are pursuing youthful school young men and young ladies and claim to enjoy similar side interests lastly bait them into the universe of porn. There are many instances of lost and taken advantage of youthful understudies because of these hunters. These wrongdoings are one more motivation to restrict Web access for understudies.

Physical Harms

The overuse of the internet is physical harm for students. Students are the future of this world and they must stay healthy to focus on their studies and become responsible citizens on this earth. With the excess of the internet, we can see many students spending hours in front of their computer screens. They keep on playing online games and chatting on social sites. this leads to their back pain, muscle weakness, eye problems, and many other posture-related issues. All these physical issues directly affect their studies and make them lazy. The Internet is a web where students easily get addicted and make their life hell.

The Social Li fe is Effected

A student needs to have a social life, make friends, and have face-to-face interactions but due to the overuse of the internet, these interactions have been lost somewhere. The Internet is famous for meeting new people and making new friends but they have nothing to do with the people around us. Students get addicted to messaging and virtual communications rather than going out and meeting friends. This affects their social life and they no longer find it comfortable to have face to face interactions. The students are lacking communication skills and going away from their relationships and all the blame is on the excess of the internet. If we observe, we can find endless such cases near us where students are risking their future. It is important to limit internet access for the students to save their social life also.

Cheating

The students getting excess of the internet can lead to cheating. The fact that the internet has all the information can be used negatively by the students. They use search engines for finding the answers to their question during tests which lead to false results. Many schools have banned the use of mobile phones and the internet inside the school so that students can focus on their classes rather than surfing. This also disables students to achieve better grades with their hard work. The reduction in internet use can lead to awareness among students and prevent the cheating problem.

Cheating is not only about cheating in examinations but there are many cases where students are hacking the school websites and changing the grades and altering the student’s information. They hack their school websites to know the assignments and find their answers. In 2017, there was a case where a former student hacked his alma mater and changed his grades. The student was arrested but this is the time to think about what leads to all this?

Fraud

Dangerous games like Blue Whale, Momo, etc are also part of the internet. They target students and young children to lure them to do useless tasks and kill themselves in the end. They do friendship with the students and after getting all the information and understanding their weaknesses, attack them emotionally, and blackmail them.

In the year 2017-18, there were countless cases where students committed suicide due to Blue Whale and Momo. These kinds of websites are a threat to today’s youth. the students are more prone to exploitation and luring which makes the internet a very unsafe place for them.

Conclusion

There is nothing more important than saving the students from getting lured by frauds, cheating, and getting addicted to pornography. They need to have a normal physical and social life. Most importantly, students should focus on their studies rather than anything else. All this can be achieved only by reducing the internet access for the students. Although the internet is a very useful thing there are many harms also. It is better to allow students to use the internet for a limited time only so they do not get time for any useless online activity. The school is the best place for the students to learn, there is no need to search for every small thing to search on the internet. If we encourage students to search for books rather than the internet for everything, it can lead to a huge change.

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