The ever increasing digital density among children and teenagers is a ploy of market forces aimed at catching them young and thereby making them slaves of technology.
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• How far can you support this view?

The mounting digital density among children and teens is a natural development. From a business a point of view, it is a ploy employed to catch children young. However, keeping them slaves of technology for ever, in my opinion, is a matter of choice, for man is intelligent enough not to be so.

To begin with, digital service providers face tough competition in the market. The pressure they face is so acute that they cannot do without pushing in their products and services among the younger ones of the market. They are the market tomorrow, and keeping them hooked to technology is of course a market trick. However, we cannot be blind to the fact that the world is going digital every moment. Being part of such a world demands one to be ‘digitaliterate’, let me coin a word.

When it comes to children becoming slaves of digital revolution, my personal opinion is that it is an exaggeration. Yes, children are vulnerable to the lures of technology and they are going to get glued to it. But when children grow up into men and women, they would have the common sense to decide on whether to be a slave of technology or the other way round. Digital density is the order of the day, and it is a welcome development. However, the business aspect of this revolution cannot be done away with.

In short, what we need is an intelligent bridging, especially when some parts of the world remain worried about digital divide. I think digital reach among children would do much towards such a bridging all the market ploys notwithstanding.

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