Media, behavior issues of children and its management

Abstract

Media has an unavoidable impact on how people view themselves. Media environment surrounding children has grown breathtakingly in the last three decades. Several hundred national and international cable and satellite channels, broadband internet, social networking sites have entered middle class homes. Children under the age of six spend more time watching television than they do playing outdoors. The behaviour of children has changed dramatically in the past ten years. Today social media affect the way children dress, talk, walk or even influence the type of music or the food they want. Social media like Print Media, Electronic Media ,New Age Media have become a core part of children's lives. Social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Instagram are their primary interface with the internet. These portals are generally used social sites via smartphones and tablets, such that many children are permanently connected to their virtual social network, continually receiving and checking feed, and regularly posting their own updates, which have brought about major changes in their lifestyle and behaviour. More important, it can also lead to internet addiction that will change the developing brain structure of teenagers, leading to poor academic achievements, involvement in dangerous activities, unhealthily nutritional habits, poor personal relationships, attention seeker and self-injurious activities.