The impact of the Internet on middle school students

Abstract The rapid development of the Internet has an increasingly important impact on all areas of human life. Today, as we enter the information society, "surfing the Internet" has become a fashion. Among the huge group of Internet users, teenagers account for a large proportion, and the number is gradually increasing. According to the survey, 85.8% of current Internet users are young people aged 18 to 35, and 2.4% are under 18 years old. In the face of the unstoppable Internet boom among teenagers, how to correctly guide them has become an important issue that schools, teachers, and parents are currently paying close attention to. The Internet has brought us a huge impact, and its impact on young people has both positive and negative aspects. However, after all, the Internet represents the highest level of scientific and technological development in the world today. There is no reason for us to stop eating because of choking. We should give full play to its positive role and take corresponding measures to guide young people to grow up healthily so that they can adapt to the development of the information age and interact with them. Keep pace with the times.

Keywords Internet; youth; influence

The Internet brings infinite vitality and motivation to mankind, showing a beautiful paradise. How much people love it can be seen from the doubling of the number of people surfing the Internet every year. The reason is mainly because the Internet is adapted to the personality of teenagers. It has long been a foregone conclusion that people are addicted to the Internet. As the saying goes, "As the clothes get wider, you will never regret it. Spending time on the Internet will make you haggard." So, what is the magical power of the Internet? What impact does it have on teenagers? How can we take measures to overcome its adverse effects?

1. The positive impact of the Internet on young people

1. It is conducive to the formation of non-linear thinking in teenagers

Linear thinking emphasizes the order of things, and the understanding of things follows a single order from beginning to end. The hypertext reading method widely used on the Internet constructs and processes information in a network form. It is a leaping, comprehensive and non-linear way of thinking. From a non-linear perspective, when thinking about a problem, we must consider its various connections with surrounding things, and find solutions to the problem through this network of connections. This way of thinking changes the narrow and rigid shortcomings inherent in traditional linear thinking. It is conducive to cultivating young people's divergent thinking, expanding their ideas, and helping them to correctly view the people and things around them and establish a scientific life. outlook and worldview. The use of the Internet can also cultivate young people's thinking consciousness to look at problems from a systematic perspective and actively use modern tools to analyze and solve problems, which is exactly what is necessary in the information age.

2. The creative ability of teenagers has been developed

With the rise of several major domestic Internet companies, young Internet creators have become role models for teenagers. The myth of Internet entrepreneurship and the story of Internet equality inspire a large number of energetic young people. The importance of knowledge and creativity has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of young people. The information on the Internet is extremely rich and updated very quickly. In the face of this vast amount of information, teenagers no longer value "knowledge and memory". Computers and the Internet are their memories. The most important task they face is not to acquire the known, but to create and apply new knowledge with a high degree of imagination. The Internet has brought about revolutionary changes in the concepts of young people. Whether it is in terms of innovative concepts, exercising innovative thinking, cultivating innovative abilities, and realizing innovative content, it has been greatly improved, and their intelligence has been sublimated.

3. Meets the communication, communication and understanding needs of teenagers

The efficient, fast, convenient and unique communication method of the Internet is consistent with the needs of contemporary teenagers who are curious, willing to fantasize and pursue independence. Therefore, as soon as the Internet appeared, it was destined to be closely associated with teenagers. The Internet allows young people to be closely connected with the world, allowing them to gain a wider space beyond the limited pressure of study and work. When the world's colorful information resources are gathered in front of young people, their vision and mind will be completely different from before.

The healthy growth of teenagers in the Internet environment is a major theoretical and practical issue related to the cultivation of successors to the socialist cause and the long-term development of the country. In this regard, we have conducted exploratory investigations, analysis, and research in order to guide young people to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages in the online society, coordinate their development in moral, intellectual, physical, artistic, and labor and other aspects, and serve the decision-making of the party committee and government, and serve both parties. Civilization construction services.

1. The dual impact of the Internet on the healthy growth of adolescents

The impact of the Internet on the healthy growth of adolescents is multi-layered and multi-faceted, and generally speaking, it is dual. The World Health Organization defines health as: Health refers to a state of complete physical, psychological and social adaptation. Our country’s education policy also clearly states that we should train young people to become new people with the “four qualities” who develop morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and labor comprehensively and harmoniously, and are “oriented toward modernization, the world, and the future.” Therefore, we try to explore the dual impact of the Internet on the healthy growth of teenagers in terms of their ideological and moral quality, intellectual quality, physical quality, psychological quality, and social adaptability.

1. The positive impact of the Internet on the healthy growth of young people

The positive impact of the Internet on the ideological and moral quality of young people is mainly reflected in the following: the Internet has become an important position for ideological and political education, and young people visit these Website and participation in various activities carried out by the website will help enhance the awareness of patriotism and party love, and help strengthen the awareness and status of moral subjects.

The positive impact of the Internet on the intellectual quality of young people is mainly reflected in: the openness and convenience of the Internet, and the diversity and breadth of content, which provides a broad learning space for young people and greatly broadens their horizons. A way to seek knowledge can help young people broaden their horizons and promote their studies; the Internet can provide young people with a free, relaxed, and stress-free learning environment, helping them cultivate and develop their innovative abilities; the Internet is a vast space where many new things exist. and unknown things, helping to develop the potential of young people.

The positive impact of the Internet on the physical fitness of teenagers is mainly reflected in the following: It is most convenient for teenagers to obtain certain medical and health knowledge and physical exercise knowledge through the Internet. The positive impact of the Internet on the psychological quality of teenagers is mainly reflected in the following: the Internet provides a relatively relaxed environment for teenagers to vent their bad emotions, and educators can also effectively help teenagers relieve their worries and doubts through online chat; the Internet provides teenagers with mental health knowledge , it has brought great convenience to conduct self-tests on mental health status, psychological consultation, understand psychological hospitals, psychologists, mental health research trends and make medical appointments; the Internet has brought great convenience to young people's study, life, entertainment and other aspects of personality traits. It is possible to get more full respect and satisfaction, which will help the development of good personality in teenagers.

The positive impact of the Internet on the social adaptability of young people is mainly reflected in: the rapid development of network technology and the rapid transmission of information, as well as the new and equal interpersonal relationships of human-computer dialogue, which help to inspire and guide the cultivation of young people. and the formation of modern concepts such as learning, efficiency, equality, and openness; the Internet shortens the spatial distance between people and helps young people expand the scope of communication; the establishment of new ways of interpersonal communication and social relationships online provides a good foundation for young people to function in real society. Social interaction provides a buffer space; the Internet also provides a role training ground for the socialization of teenagers, helping to promote the socialization of teenagers.

2. The negative impact of the Internet on the healthy growth of adolescents

The negative impact of the Internet on the ideological and moral quality of adolescents is mainly reflected in the following: the proliferation of online information may cause the lack of beliefs or pluralism of values ??among adolescents ation, affecting the formation of young people’s correct outlook on life and values; the hidden nature of information reception and dissemination on the Internet may cause the weakening of young people’s moral awareness and decreased sense of social responsibility; the hidden and unconstrained nature of online communication can easily cause young people to do Do something that violates the rules and even commit a crime.

The negative impact of the Internet on the intellectual quality of teenagers is mainly reflected in the following: Internet chatting is the main content of many teenagers surfing the Internet. Most teenagers who enter chat rooms to chat have no fixed topics. This kind of casual chatting method is easy to Affects the logical thinking ability and attention of teenagers; the computer network takes away the time for teenagers to read and think; on the Internet, some people make money by helping others write papers and do homework, so many teenagers who lack self-discipline download articles from the Internet as homework Leave it to teachers, and even master's and doctoral theses are purchased from the Internet, which greatly reduces the serious attitude of young people in learning; in reality, many young people are overly obsessed with and dependent on computer networks, and are addicted to the Internet and cannot study normally. The order of life is destroyed, the study time is listless, the academic performance declines, and some even get tired of studying, play truant or drop out of school.

The negative impact of the Internet on young people's physical fitness is mainly reflected in: long-term continuous use of the Internet can cause depression, dizziness, trembling hands, fatigue, loss of appetite, restlessness, increased blood pressure, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. , sleep disorders, and some even commit suicide; a poor Internet environment can also damage the physical health of teenagers.

The negative impact of the Internet on the psychological quality of teenagers is mainly reflected in the following: long-term Internet use can cause Internet autism in teenagers, indifference in interpersonal emotions, and a mentality of disapproval or even escape from the real society; "online dating" and online chat will It triggers a series of emotional entanglements among teenagers, leading to various emotional problems; the virtuality and concealment of the Internet can induce dual personality disorder in teenagers; out-of-control time manipulation on the Internet can also lead to Internet addiction, making teenagers lonely, sensitive, and depressed , vigilance, disobedience to social norms, and even mental disorders, suicide, etc.

The negative impact of the Internet on teenagers’ social adaptability is mainly reflected in the following: the Internet is a virtual world, and people’s online communication mainly relies on abstract numbers and symbols. Teenagers are addicted to this mode of human-computer dialogue all day long. , will affect social adaptability and ability, and even worse, some teenagers may also suffer from "Internet Social Disorder"; in the Internet environment, the objects and identities of teenagers are uncertain, which weakens the ability of teenagers to The ability to acquire social roles; the virtuality and freedom of online communication can easily lead to general anomie in people's behavior, which is not conducive to the socialization of teenagers, and even leads to the failure of teenagers' socialization.