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There is often no monitoring on how correct or wrong certain social media content are.
Parents themselves are always busy on their phones these days.
Nowadays all kinds of information are available on YouTube; but this internet school is becoming a threat for children. It is not necessary that every content shown on it is correct. Some videos are also misleading children. So, parents need to be very careful. Recently, psychiatrist Priyanka Shrivastava shared that children of today’s generation are maturing before time. The biggest reason for this is that they keep getting a lot of information through mobile. The videos that come in front of them are not according to their age, but when they watch such videos, their behavior starts changing. They feel that they have understood everything, and they are not afraid of doing new things. The way they dress and talk, they feel that they are mature but all this is affecting them badly. Today, let’s take a look at why parents should keep an eye on their child’s social media exposure.
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Content is not watched according to age:There is some content on social media that claims that it is made for children. But those videos contain adult content. There is a debate going on about this all over the world. In fact, some kids’ videos have even become a matter of controversy. According to a report, thumbnails of channels made for children are being made in the form of cartoons of childbirth, pregnancy, and some obscene images. At the same time, many videos are about beauty and style, after watching which even small girls start doing make-up.
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Parents do not talk to their children:Priyanka Shrivastava says that videos on social media are like a virtual school for today’s generation, but there is no teacher here who can tell them the difference between right and wrong. On the other hand, parents themselves are always busy on their phones, due to which they talk very little to their children. When a child is growing up, everything is new for him. Many questions come to his mind. When he tries to ask his parents, often his parents tell him to shut up. When he does not get answers, he starts looking for answers on social media. He does not know how correct and accurate the information he gets is.
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It is important to keep an eye on what children are watching:YouTube is a social media platform where all kinds of information are available. But there is no monitoring of how correct or wrong that content is. Many good things are also learned from this virtual world, like children learning many new words, language, art and craft, and many new poems and stories. But there are also some things uploaded on it that have a negative impact on children. Like pranks, new ways of mischief, abusive language.
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Many channels are misleading in the name of education:As per reports, it was revealed that more than 50 education channels running in more than 20 languages are giving wrong information to children, and on all these channels, video content is being created with the help of artificial intelligence. In the investigation, it was found that the information being given on this channel on the basis of scientific facts is wrong.
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Know every activity of the child:It is a bit difficult to keep children away from mobile devices in this digital world, but their online monitoring is necessary. YouTube has created a feature called YouTube Family Center Hub in which parents can get information about the videos of their children. Parents have complete control of this feature. They can get information about the comments made by the child, video history, and subscribed channels. Apart from this, there are many such apps that are giving parents the option to keep an eye on the mobile.
