Social Media And Kids: In today's era, social media has reached every mobile. Being active on social media is not bad but the matter of concern is that in this new era, kids (kids on Social media) are using it excessively. A recent Lancet study says that every third child in the country has become addicted to social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook or X. In such a situation, children's childhood and education are getting adversely affected, and their brain is also getting affected by it.

What does the Lancet study say? 

Lancet's study says that one in two parents in the urban population complain that their children have become addicted to social media, OTT and mobile gaming. This is having a bad effect on their behavior and they are gradually becoming aggressive. Due to social media addiction, children are not only becoming violent but they are also lacking patience.

Social media is clearly having a bad effect on the lifestyle of children and their development and childhood is being affected by it. Lancet has conducted a survey in this regard at the local level, in which 47 percent of the parents of the urban population have said that their children are spending more than three hours every day on social media, OTT, reels videos etc.

Parents demand strict laws on social media 

Lassent said that in the survey, 66 percent of the parents said that strict laws should be made for children under 18 years of age regarding social media and mobile gaming in the country. They believe that under the data protection law, mobile phones of young children should be brought under parental control. The government should make rules for this. Ten percent of the parents said in this survey that their children watch mobile for more than six hours.