My mum discovered WhatsApp only last year. Now, she uses it more than I do. She’s already into Instagram, Pinterest and most social media platforms. She approaches the Internet in the same spirit as a toddler would play with his/her new toy. She finds it liberating and an incredibly useful …
Read More »Reflecting on Mary Aiken’s ‘The Cyber Effect’
In one of the chapters, cyberpsychologist Mary Aiken quotes clinical psychologist Michael Seto. “We are living through the largest unregulated social experiment of all time — a generation of youth who have been exposed to extreme content online.” This quote is powerful, deep and makes us think of the kind of …
Read More »What is cyberchondria?
How many of us depend on Google for answers to our nagging health-related queries? And, how many times do we end up feeling anxious or miserable at the kind of uncanny similarities in symptoms we seem to have with almost every scary thing that is written about most of the …
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