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Wonderful tool

  • 15 Apr 2024
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Social media is a wonderful tool. We get to do lots of thing on different platforms. It has revolutionalised our lifestyle completely for sure. We are flooded with lots of information and knowledge from worldwide.

At the same time I feel children should avoid using it much. School and college-going children need to stay away from Facebook or Instagram. Even if they use then they should control their screen time consciously.  Social media is amazing and a great platform, but at the same time it has lots of distraction, which might impact growing mind.

Bibi Jameela, By email

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