English Foundation

Globally close to five billion people are said to be dependent on the internet for everything from information to food, transport, work and relationships. At a time when life without a smartphone seems counterintuitive, some digital innovators are suggesting that the antidote to short attention spans, sleep deprivation, and almost every other disease emerging out of technological dependence may be lying within the code world. Their answer? smart application created to known you better so as to slow you down, exercise more, get work done and maybe, even live in the moment if you will.

Using forest, for instance, the more trees you grow, the more virtual coins you collect. Which say the app's creators can be spent to plant real trees through a tree-planting organization they have partnered with. According to the team. 1,383,508 have been planted in five contries across Africa through these donation.

'A wall street Journal report cast year revealed that features within instagram caused teenage girls to develop negative feeling about their own body image. A study published in the India Journal of psychiatry in January February this year said college going students were significantly more likely to feel that 'life would be less interesting, they could not imagine living and "felt unhappy and annoyed when not connected to social media." anxiety is a very real concern.