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Gadgets Addiction

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Too much attraction towards a particular subject or thing could be called as an addiction. Generally, addicted person loses the have power over his own mind and finds it difficult to get rid of his likeliness towards the object. Today, majority of teenagers spend most of their valuable time with technological gadgets. According to Young (1998), technological addiction is a habitual inclination to engage ourselves in the technology instead of using it to address the real life’s problems. Teenagers are most vulnerable to technology addiction. Rising degree of internet addiction among teens has resulted in severe change in their attitude, and has also become a reason for their depression, anxiety, loss of self-esteem and academic decline. Poor coping mechanism in teens draws their attention towards online videos or social media sites under stress situations. Housewives are even more addicted to technological gadgets (http://www.trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18165441). According to Nicholar Carr, the author of “The Shallows”, a book about “how the internet is changing how we function” describes how we develop a very strong emotional attachment to our gadgets that often leads us to use them obsessively. Negative impacts of the digital services should be taken seriously and therefore students must be encouraged to minimise the use of these tools (Walsh, 2012).
Technological gadgets addiction is considered to be a growing public health problem in Asian-Pacific cultures. India

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