INDIVIDUAL REPORT

Q. How is the digital world affecting the health of the humans?

Digital world is basically the availability of digital devices to communicate and interact to get
information, generally used in terms of digital fluency or literacy. For example virtual or online
world, gadgets, availability of various technology, internet and living a two dimensional world.
Like it has been recorded in April 2022, number of greater than five billion internet users in the
world, which makes about 63.1 percent of the world’s total population. From this 4.7 billion or
59 percent of the population were the social media users (statista research department, 2022).
Enabling people be heard by the public and communicate with people across the globe in real
time, enabling unprecedented levels of communication. New learning methods for everyone
who wants to learn, ways of working from home (for people who live far away from residential
areas and during pandemics).

ISSUE 1:
There may be many advantages to this technology but it also comes with many
disadvantages. As through these online platforms many people get bullied. There are many
causes to why the kids or adults become a victim of cyber bullying. There may be any past
grudges or revenge for certain mistakes made by people intentionally or unintentionally which
may have hurt the bully and now he’s taking revenge or it can just be for fun purposes to annoy
someone for a little enjoyment but they don’t notice the deep scar which they are leaving on
the victims heart or life. They don’t realize how much of a stain they leave on the victims heart
and the anger in his heart can cause him to avail any opportunity to bully his bully back this will
begin a never ending saga of bullying.
CAUSES: Hence the damage it cause to the victim is severe. It may cause health issues like
depression, anxiety, overthinking and many other emotional diseases which may lead them to
eventually take harmful substances such as drugs to calm there mind which will enter them into
a new problem as they may get addicted to the drugs.
CONSEQUENCE: One in about three young youths in almost 30 nations revealed that they had
been a victim of bullying , along with one in five stating to have skipped school due to the
intense bullying, in a new show of hands declared this day by the UNICEF and UN outstanding
representative of the secretary general (SRSG) on violence against young youths (wylie, 2019).
The consequences to cyber bullying can be quite extreme the person may be scared to go out
of the house and may isolate himself from the rest of the world which may cause him health
issues like of gaining weight or spinal problems due to sitting in his room all day and the health
problems lead the person into taking medication to calm himself but it’s not like the medicine
won’t have a side effect of its own if taken in great amount the real problem is that it won’t be
easy to capture the victim either as he can just easily bully online by posting fake material
about a person or anything against the person by just simply staying anonymous and the cyber
bullying is spread on a large spectrum so people may or may not support the victim making it
hard for him to live. Therefore the victim takes sleeping pills, anti-depressants which cause is
health to degrade severely. Moreover sometimes the victim can’t take it and just commits the
unthinkable and ends his life as he calls it a life of misery strong course of action should be
taken to such a severe problem.
COURSE OF ACTION: The UNICEF’s campaign to end cyber bullying is known as #ENDviolence in
and around schools, adolescents and the young youths around the world created a, calling on
administrations, tutors, guardians and each one another to assist the project endviolence to
ensure that the future of or countries feel safe in and around the school premises including
calling for help online (unicef.org, 2018). And the parents can take measures to protect their
child from being bullied they can ensure that their child has put a password on their devices
and they have put a strong password on their emails and by teaching them, how to enable
privacy settings to ensure that only there child knows his password. These measures and
problems are discusses nationally and globally both and many different courses of actions are
taken to end such injustices.

Issue 2:
The second issue would be isolation, like it was said in an article written by Robert
Weiss who is a licensed clinical public servant therefore also an author of many books about
how inside a world in which humans can get a great number of online friends while at the same
time binding to worldwide network of communities, civilizations and occurrences, could they
ever mention about a sense of loneliness? And yet so many do (weiss, 2017).As a being with
many problems which accounts for most of the people around the world, these people start to
isolate themselves and they start to enjoy there isolation as in there isolation there is no one to
say bad things to them and no one to remind them of their problems. Hence the person is free
from all the stress or the mean comments given by people,
CAUSES: therefore the person reduces communication with the outside world which makes him
unaware of all the things going on outside in the real world. The person will also not listen to
his parents this way because they are already addicted to the digital world so when the parents
will tell them to get out of their rooms or devices they will become furious and will either
ignore them or will misbehave with them because they don’t want to face the problems in the
real world, moreover the person is addicted to the digital world now so his heart refuses to
leave it while the brain tells him to not loose contact with the outside world.
CONSEQUENCE: The pew research center says in the Social Isolation and New Technology
reports about A broadly passed on 2006 research which debated about Americans being
isolated since 1985, the portion of the debating networks reduced. Meanwhile, divergence of
the beings along with whom they talked about main affairs with diminished (pew research
centre, 2009) . So all because of social isolation at the end it causes the person with health
issues like weak eye sight, hunched back, back pain and much more.
COURSE OF ACTION : As Everyone in the world has to face problems at some point in their lives
but it is too much for some people so they prefer to cut off social ties with people in real life
and get addicted to digital world and make friends there cause they are too sensitive to handle
people in real life. the consequences to it will be that the person will be unaware of the outside
world and will lack social skill with that the person’s anxiety levels will increase so it would
become hard for the person to communicate with people hence the person becomes socially
awkward so in order to deal with this the close people of the person can convince him to
consult a therapist and get help to live a normal life and for the kids parents can make them
comfortable enough to talk to them so they can know if the child needs help or not so they
cannot go into self-isolation and can be open to be helped easily.it applies for both global and
national perspectives

EVALUATION OF SOURCES: I have gathered the sources and this information altogether by
secondary research which includes browsing through the internet in order to grasp further
regarding my issue in order to have a clear idea about the points which need to be mentioned
by viewing surveys of people and interviews by trustworthy websites like the UN and the
UNICEF . I also gathered primary data by asking about opinions of different people from
different age groups. Moreover I also viewed statistics and figures which is the quantitative
research method to get an idea to what number this issue has been spread out to and
qualitative data to support my points.

CONCLUSION: According to me as good as beneficial digital world is, it also has a downfall
because it distracts people from their life like education, family, friends, and job. It isolates a
person it especially distracts kids and why would they go out play with friends or spend time
with family when they have all there entertainment in their hands all day, Moreover it is also
causing an increasing rate of illnesses in people with the passage of time and is making them
lazy however it is not necessarily for kids as they should not have access to it at such an early
age as they might get some wrong information from it as it just for their age. It also makes
people feel insecure like especially for teenage girls when they see a girl on the internet with
perfect skin of body they get jealous of then while they themselves are perfect as the way they
are and these days cyberbullying has also gotten common and is causing permanent scars on
the victims hear which cannot heal and can mentally disturb the victim. Depression and many
other various mental health problems. These apps can also be very addictive and it also gets
hard to resist it. A number of 5.03 billion humans have used information servers this day which
is equal to 63 percent of earth’s populace. Hence netizens keep increasing as well, the recent
information pointing towards the worlds increasing internet community as it went up by
approximately 180 million in 12 months to April of the 21st century. The terrible manner,
Carolyn Hein rich, senior teacher of general plans, education along with finance at Vanderbilt
University, stated “if a person would’ve informed me about me spending 10-12 hours in front of
a screen mostly in order to do activity. Possibly in no way would I have chosen my modern
career, but looks as if many careers nowadays include regular usage of laptops. Each of us
conclude the entirety automatically at this moment connections, noting/verification,
attempting to find records, and so forth., or filling a contemplate similar to this, I might a great
deal as an alternative be having this verbal exchange with a smartphone contemplate
compared to doing the same on my laptop. We chat along with e mail in maximum of our own
transmissions at this time, instead of speaking on smartphone or meeting up. I e-mail with a
workers working spaces doorways in preference to assembling an assembly. Physically it is
affecting me as I am seated at one place for a long time causing me constant back and neck
pain, with swelling, the constant movement and being bent into the screen being the cause. I
additionally stress upon the social networks like Facebook, twitter, and so forth. Are rising
social tension being adverse due to then being beneficial for communications. Each one of us by
no means look like they get spoiled. Me waking up inside advert cringe at what number of
emails I have to read (Carolyn henrich, n.D.).Pops up at the screen and may recognize things
which are improper
REFLECTION: during this research I learnt to what extent damage to human health is being
effected with the passage of time but my negative thoughts about it changed during the
research as digital world has played a vital role in our life, like when there was the pandemic we
couldn’t get out of our house so we handled affairs from home like school, and jobs it also
makes it easier for people to pay or shop for things when they are not feeling like going outside
due to some issue.

REFERENCES:
Pew research center
UNICEF
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unicef-poll-more-third-young-people-30-countries-
report-being-victim-online-bullying
https://msw.usc.edu/mswusc-blog/understanding-and-combating-social-isolation-in-the-
digital-age/
https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs181/projects/2007-08/developing-economies/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/617136/digital-population-worldwide/ Accessed on 03.08
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