Protect Your Children from Addiction: Unmasking Scammers and Sanitizing Social Media

Can you answer this riddle, "Always in our pockets or hands, imagining life without it is impossible? What am I?"

I hope you all got the answer, it is "Mobile phone". But the question that we are going to ask is whether it is okay to always use mobile phones.

Use of Mobile Phones in the Digital World

Hats off to the technology that made everything available and accessible with mobile phones. Before its introduction into our lives, children used to visit cybercafes to collect information for completing their homework or projects. However, they can now check for any information with a few clicks on their mobile phones. 

Meetings, businesses, entertainment, games, and transactions, all are now available on mobiles; but are you aware that technology also makes people prone to online attacks, cyber threats, and risks?

Why Limit the Use of Mobile Phones?

When initiating a transaction, personal details and account credentials are shared through online mode. To initiate these transactions, we need to make sure that the mode we are using is safe and that it happens through encryption. So, how do you confirm that the site you are using is encrypted?

There's a huge risk of your account details or other sensitive data being disclosed to a stranger, mainly cybercriminals, who will use them for personal and financial gain.

Then there is Entertainment, nowadays, it has shifted to the online world, and the main sources are gaming and social media platforms. Gaming platforms offer chatting and calling facilities to users, allowing scammers to use them for their benefit by reaching innocent children who have no idea about the dangers and risks they bring.

Moreover, having an account on various social media platforms is quite common nowadays. These platforms captivate everyone's attention by allowing them to connect with new people worldwide by interacting with them, resulting in people sharing their personal information.

Thus, we can conclude that, due to the increased reach of social media in the world, especially, the younger generation, has become a matter of concern. Let's understand why.

Is Social Media a Source of Addiction?

Social media was once seen as a platform for the younger population, but now, people of all ages use such platforms for communicating, doing business, dating, socializing, politics, etc.

Most of these platforms offer features for posts and comments, where anyone can like and comment on the post and share and download these posts.

Sharing, liking, and commenting on these posts increase their reach, making it affect a larger population and thus molding their minds and thoughts. But what is the credibility of the information and posts that are shared, liked, or seen?

We believe what social media says which limits our knowledge and personal perspective. This is why the saying of experts that "social media is like an addiction that is eating the young minds from the inside" is apt.

Ask yourself the source of major information you are getting, and you will understand how true this saying is.

Is Social Media as Dangerous as Cigarettes?

Not only social media but mobile phones can be harmful to your health if used excessively. But why this comparison of social media with cigarettes? Well, let me explain.

It is written on the box of cigarettes: "Injurious to health"; still, consumers are addicted to it. Consumers neglect the adverse effects of cigarettes and risk their lives even after repetitive warnings.

Similarly, Excessive use of social media can severely impact mental health and can cause depression, social fear, and anxiety, leaving traumas for life.

Mobile phones not only impact the mental health but also the physical health of the person who uses these gadgets for longer durations. They can get eye strain, blurry vision, back problems, obesity, etc.

However, users ignore the importance of the responsible use of such apps and mobile phones; and regret it later when they are trapped in a world of bad mental and physical health. 

And let's not forget the scamming and fraud that are happening on social media platforms. The scammers lure people, most likely teenagers into a false sense of safety by providing them fake comfort and offering friendship.

All these issues, when combined, make social media as dangerous as cigarettes.

Why is Social Media Sanitizing Needed?

After all this discussion, isn't it obvious that we need to use social media responsibly? 

Imagine if you find your child smoking; won't you stop them from doing that and teach them its risks and dangers? Similarly, this is the case with social media; when you are aware of the risks associated with it, you will want your child to avoid the threats and dangers they represent.

Nevertheless, sanitization of only social media is not enough; you need a solution that can help you disinfect all the germs of your child's online world and detach them from its addiction.

Detachment from Addiction and Sanitization of Mobile Phones

CHYLDMONITOR's Parental Monitoring App is what you all need to cleanse your child's device from germs (online risks and social media threats in this case). This app offers expertise in sanitizing mobile phones with full-proof monitoring features and many other benefits.

CHLYDMONITOR's Parental Control App allows you to detach children from addiction by tracking their online behavior with discreet call recording, social media monitoring, app blocking, tracking browsing history, keylogging, and many more features.

This parental monitoring app has 65+ monitoring features for mobile phones deep cleansing of all the online risks, threats, and social media scams. Additionally, data protection and security are what this app runs on; they transmit the monitored data in an encrypted format through a secure channel to a dashboard, and the dashboard is only accessible to you.

Get yourself the CHYLDMONITOR Parental Control App and stay at ease by actively monitoring your loved ones' mobile devices for inappropriate or excessive use of social media and other online platforms.