Social Media Addiction

Presented by : Dipisha BK

Background

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Location

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Birthplace : Khairenitar, Tanahun District

Current Residence : New Baneshwor,

Kathmandu

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Education

Grade 12 student at Nepal Mega College,

Specializing In law faculty.

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Interest and Hobbies

Reading books, playing sports like football and

badminton, discussing political news, sleeping

Hobbies: Leadership and politics

Motivated by a desire to address social problems

and Make a positive impact.

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Why Aakar ?

Interest in learning new thing about present

Context .

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My project focuses on the pervasive issue of social media addiction, defined as excessive and compulsive use of social media platforms. By addressing this issue, my project aims to help teenagers lead healthy, more balanced lives and participate in the digital world in a responsible way, setting them up for success.

Baseline Data

• 60% of the world uses social media.
• Daily average use is 2 hours 24 minutes.
• 2 hours 24 mins = 38 days non-stop use every year (and increasing)!
• 41% people in Nepal are social media users (January 2023).
• 1.25 million users aged below 18 using social media in Nepal

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CHALLENGES

Finding partners to work with

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• School identification
• Agreement Negotiation
• Resource Availability
• Schedule/Coordination
• I worked with my family members to find schools in my current network.

Making plan and preparing resources

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• Quality Content Creation
• Resource
• Planning
• I took help of my mentor to build quality materials for my session and stay on track for project

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Conducting an effective session

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• Interactive Session
• Clearly Design materials
• With feedback from my friend and student also, I was able to improve my second session.

Approach

Increase Digital Literacy: Social media awareness

I went to 3 different schools and colleges. There I was able to give seminars to students of grade 7, 8, 10th and 12th

The seminars included:

1. Educational materials: posters, art, video, sticky notes
2. Interactive Activities about social media use.
3. Personal experience sharing
4. Written Feedback collection

Project Milestones: Social Media Addiction Project

Project Implementation

• Planned an awareness session in the community's primary and secondary school.
• Reached 3 different schools and colleges by the end of August.

August

Impact - Digital Literacy

80+ students from 3 schools actively engaged in seminars.

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Spread Awareness

Seminar materials distributed to over 100 students

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Feedback Response: 90% of surveyed participants reported increased awareness of social media addiction.

Implementation 1: Awareness about using Social Media responsibly

The first implementation focused on secondary school age students:

• INTRODUCTION TO THE ISSUE: most of the students used social media but they didn’t know how social media affects our daily life .
• EXAMPLES AND DATA: In today world people how can they use in social media and how social medial play a vital role in everyone in their life.

Implementation 2: Intervention using data

Conducted awareness program in the school of grade 10 student:

• The session focused on main problem.
• After the session, I returned in a few days to understand how they were using social media.
• Identified how they were using social media and helped them from my session.

Implementation 3: Session with peers

The final implementation focused on helping my friends:

• 45 students from my grade participated in my session
• Introduced issue, answered questions, shared experiences

What I learned?

Got the opportunity to learn many things while doing the project. Some of the main points are written below:

• Build up communication skills,
• Time management or maintaining different work at same situation,
• To give a presentation of different groups of people,
• How to Research in certain topic ,
• Self motivation
• The particular tasks that I have completed they are mental health problem solution.

If I had more time, I would

• If had more time I will probably not limited my project inside in Kathmandu valley. I will expand my project outside of Kathmandu valley.
• I will be launching a one years long campaign on this particular topic,
• I will not only be limited with this students I will also connect with their parents on this issued and I will involve their parents.

Thank You!