Psychological Impacts of Technology

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Psychological Impacts

Cyber bullying: Cyber bullying is a form of bullying that primarily occurs online. This can come in the form of hateful messages, harassment, or spreading rumours. Cyber bullying can harm online reputations. It can be permanent and publicly available if it is not reported or removed. 
A negative online reputation can have an impact on a person's employment prospects, admission to colleges and universities and many other aspects of their lives. 
It is difficult to recognise because people such as parents, teachers, or other relevant family members may not see bullying taking place.

Mental health: If you have a negative interaction with technology you are more likely to develop mental health issue. Accessing inappropriate content come affect peoples mental health and make people feel inadequate. Being in contact with strangers can mean you meet new people from different backgrounds, but it can expose you to harassment if you over share. Being a victim of scams or cyber-crime can seriously effect people mental health.

Addiction: An addiction to aspects of digital technology can be a major problem for some people. Gambling addiction is the compulsive use of gambling applications on mobile devices, this can be detrimental to people financial and mental health. Not to mention it can also destroy family relationships if they ask there family for money. The availability of gambling has only made this worse, now you can gamble anywhere anytime. The reason people get addicted is because of a big hit people get when the win, or the thought of winning big. But in reality the chances they will make any of there money back is astronomically low. 
Gaming addiction is described as the compulsive playing of online games. It is often associated with obesity and bad hygiene. People lose track of time and forget about there responsibilities as they get absorbed into there game. However it is pretty rare for people to get this type of addiction.
Social Media addiction is the excessive 

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