Proliferation of smartphones and better Internet access has had a profound impact on one of the most vulnerable age groups — young children and adolescents. Schoolchildren are exposed to all kinds of information on the Internet. And, like all disruptive things, they carry both positives and negatives with them. To …
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Bullying has always existed. But in the last decade, with increasing access to Internet and proliferation of smartphones, it has take a new form. Psychologists are calling it cyberbullying. And it has become worse in many ways. Cyberbullying can be defined as the act of “willful and repeated harm inflicted …
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We’ve all been through bouts of depression at some point in our lives. Sometimes, there’s no reason for it at all, we just lose it and get bogged down and it persists for sometime before ‘normalcy’ returns. For some, this cycle is frequent and for others it seems a lot …
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Jacob Sartorius, a social media teen sensation, was recently in the news for the wrong reasons. And for the initiated, here are some facts on him. He’s a 13 year-old boy who’s got an incredible number of ‘followers’ on all his social media accounts. According to this post by Mashable, he …
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