What new diseases have the Internet brought?

In recent years, the rapid progress of information technology and the rapid popularization of the Internet are widely and profoundly changing people's daily lives. However, new technologies have both advantages and disadvantages. Over-reliance on new technologies will affect our health and cause some new dysfunction symptoms or diseases. So, what diseases will the emerging information technology cause?

Missed phobia

In social networks, have you ever had such an experience: you can't refuse any invitation, but at the same time you are worried about missing any activities to help people? If you are always worried about losing or missing something, then you may have a phobia of missing. Missed phobia, also known as "outsider's dilemma" or "Facebook depression", is directly related to excessive obsession with social networks. When the interactive experience through social networks fails, the main symptoms are depression, depression and even anxiety.

With the popularity of the Internet, the relationship between people and information technology is getting closer and closer, and people are inadvertently surrounded by overwhelming information networks. Therefore, people's decision-making, emotions and emotions in daily life are easily influenced, especially when using social modes such as WeChat, Weibo and QQ. Those flashing messages prompt real-time feedback on the latest trends of friends, and the fear and anxiety lurking in the bottom of my heart begin to expand rapidly at an incredible speed. People are always worried about what they have missed, and they are afraid that they have made the wrong decision on time arrangement. At this time, a calm heart can easily become hesitant, and then turn into many complex emotions such as fear, anxiety, stimulation, loss, worry and anxiety.

The "24-hour online" service provided by the Internet has greatly broadened people's activity space, and the distance between people seems to disappear instantly. People's daily life is increasingly inseparable from the internet, and some people are even addicted to it. At the same time, many people feel that they are becoming bystanders of other people's happy times or outsiders who are always late. These are all manifestations of the phobia of young ladies induced by information technology. In order to limit the influence of information technology on people's daily life and avoid the anti-customer-oriented situation, people should learn to be their own masters, at least learn to say goodbye to electronic products such as computers and mobile phones occasionally.

Visual tension

Living in today's information society, computers, mobile phones, televisions, game consoles, navigators and other display terminals have penetrated into every corner of people's daily lives. This is especially true for office workers who work nine to five. They often face the mobile phone screen on their way to and from work, and they need to work on the computer all day at work. Staring at the display screen for a long time, the staring point moves frequently, the picture flashes, and maintaining an operating posture for a long time, which easily leads to visual tension and visual fatigue. When the display screen works closely for a long time, there will be symptoms such as pain around the eyes and orbit, blurred vision, dry eyes, tears and diplopia. Even headache, nausea, dizziness, etc. And even macular chorea and retinal detachment. This is undoubtedly the negative impact of technological progress on human health.

Electronic product dependence

Excessive use of electronic products for a long time may lead to some cognitive decline in normal life, which is called electronic product dependence. Children are most prone to this symptom because of their poor self-control ability. According to the types of electronic products that cause this disease, we can divide it into mobile phone dependence, chat tool dependence and input method dependence.

Mobile phone dependence is mainly manifested as excessive dependence on mobile phones. Once you leave your mobile phone or it has no power, you will be agitated, suffer from loss and can't work and study normally. For example, customers' phone numbers and friends' numbers are all in the phone's address book. How can I contact them when the mobile phone is not here? Everything to do today is stored in the notebook of the mobile phone, waiting for the mobile phone to remind you one by one. Now that the mobile phone hasn't come to work, I don't know where to go from here.

The dependence on chat tools is mainly manifested in that when surfing the Internet, all you have to do is to open the chat tool and chat with friends. If you don't open the chat tool and chat with your friends, you will feel that something is missing today, and you will even be agitated and feel lost. Indeed, chat tools have great advantages, friends can chat face to face no matter how far apart they are, and there is no need to spend extra telephone charges. However, while chatting tools bring us a lot of convenience, they also reduce people's social activities in the real society. The communication between people has gradually evolved into little conversation or even face to face, but mainly through the internet.

Input method dependence is manifested in leaving the computer, many familiar words can't be written, and they can only rely on the input method on computers and other equipment to write. This is similar to the phenomenon of memory decline in the elderly, but it mostly happens to young people, which is caused by relying too much on computer input and reducing the chance of handwriting.

Short message sleepwalking

With the increasing functions of mobile phones, people seem to be inseparable from mobile phones in their daily lives and work. At the same time, more and more people use mobile phones to send text messages in their sleep, and usually don't remember their previous behavior after waking up. This symptom is similar to sleepwalking, so it is called "short message sleepwalking".

This kind of people are mainly teenagers or young people. Mike Gayle Bach, a professor of clinical medicine at the School of Dentistry of new york University, explained, "Maybe one minute you are texting, and the next minute you are asleep. Then, a text message reminds you to wake up again. This has gradually become a trend, because the boundary between waking up and falling asleep is becoming more and more blurred. " He also believes that this symptom belongs to an abnormal deep sleep, just like sleepwalking, night terrors, bed wetting and other sleep disorders. Sleepwalking text messages usually occur two hours after people fall asleep. At this critical moment, it will disturb the rapid eye movement during sleep, hinder the recovery of sleep, and make the brain unable to replenish the energy it needs after working for a long time. In addition, lack of sleep can lead to some health problems, including obesity, high blood pressure and heart disease.

In addition to excessive use of mobile phones, drug abuse will also increase the probability of sleepwalking text messages. Although some sleepwalking messages may be caused by drug abuse or other factors, for most sleepwalkers, if they want to be cured, they have to change their lifestyle. Gelbo suggested that people should turn off all electronic devices at least 30 minutes before going to bed to give their brains a full rest. Or, you can put your mobile phone far away-it's a wonderful way to stop sleepwalking.

Google effect

With the continuous development of science and technology, people are more and more accessible to all kinds of information. Low search cost and quick response time make it easy for people to find the information they want and the answers to various questions. People have gradually regarded the internet as a part of memory-a database with rich storage capacity, which is the so-called Google effect. The convenience brought by this innovative technology is changing people's thinking mode.

Betsy Sparrow, a psychologist at Columbia University in the United States, and her colleagues studied the impact of Google effect on people. The results show that people are more inclined to look for computers when encountering problems; When people feel that they can retrieve this information in the future, it will be more difficult for them to recall the information itself, and they will strengthen their memory of how to retrieve it. Scientists point out that excessive use of Internet search may reduce the chances of interacting with others and make people accustomed to uploading information instead of sharing it with relatives or friends. In addition, if you tend to store all kinds of data in the network, it will also reduce people's impulse to store important facts in their brains. Although this phenomenon is a behavioral change caused by psychological cognition, it does not mean that the physiological memory ability is worse, but in behavior, the reflective psychology that no longer deliberately "remembers" will affect the operation of the brain memory area. Although it is still unclear what will happen to the memory area of the brain, the Internet has greatly changed people's lifestyles in a short time, and people have different ways to know and communicate with the world. In fact, our brains have been changed by the Google effect and we can't go back. (Author: Li Xueli, Zhang Bin)