Miley Cyrus’s warning on internet use to teens
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Miley Cyrus has warned against the perils of the internet, urging teens to take up sports instead.
The teen star of Hannah Montana, who famously ditched her Twitter account last year in an attention-grabbing video, said texting, Twitter and Facebook “wastes your life”, the Sun reports.
The newspaper ran an article by a psychotherapist writer that takes Cyrus’ warning seriously, noting the social-networking sites and computer games could be making teens depressed.
The writer cites the agitation teens experience when they don’t get an instant reply to a text and a “euphoric high” that accompanies playing a computer game, only to be followed by a crushing low-point.
The author, leading UK psychologist Steve Pope, claims: “I have spent the past year researching mobile phones, the internet and computer games and their effect on the mind.
“And I have one conclusion: they have the same effect on a child’s brain as a line of cocaine – a high, followed by a devastating low.
“We live in an world where instant communication reigns, but it means children have speedier access to the ills of our society than ever before.”
Source: Splash News
