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Online Security: Does it Cause Students to Feel Depressed?

Do Son January 20, 2020 5 minutes read
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When it comes to talking about students, it should be acknowledged that there is a great difference between the students of the 20th and the 21st centuries. While the latter could concentrate their attention on the studies as the only thing that could have threatened their security was a failed examination. Meanwhile, the students of today have to worry about their online security, as nowadays it is impossible to be a successful college disciple without using the Internet. The constant thoughts about the safety of their bank and social media accounts lead them directly into depression. This article will tell you about online security and how it causes students to feel depressed.

Students Are Forced into It

Regardless of what people might say, but modern students are forced into feeling depressed, and there is no factor powerful enough to refute this statement. Students from around the world nowadays look for some proper information, including even depression essay example as they want to get known more about depression and learn how to fight it. Reading or writing a good essay about one’s problems can eventually become the way of getting out of the pitfall of depression. Incorporating one’s thoughts on the paper is a brilliant method of self-analysis which is often what students need in order to deal with their problems.

The way of forcing students into depression is extremely simple. The majority of study materials that the students might need to use when learning a number of disciplines are located online. It goes without saying that all these materials do not come free of charge and that students have to pay a lot of money for each and every book and article they have to read in order to write one essay. Thus, students have to submit a lot of personal data, along with their emails, phone numbers, credit card numbers, CVV and CVV2 codes, etc. in order to actually purchase the material of their choice.

As a result, students might start receiving text messages from the companies that they have never contacted, by offering them special discounts for the services that they have never heard of. This is the point where students start developing a paranoid vision of their life. People start looking for scams everywhere they go on the Internet. Instead of thinking about their tasks and assignments, they end up thinking about conducting a web safety check once or twice a week.

Plagiarism Alert

One of the most widespread factors that lead students into depression associated with online security is their fear of being plagiarized or what is more plagiarizing someone else. For example, an average student goes online and starts looking for some writing assistance. He or she will surely get some high-quality help and the essay or paper written for them will be flawless. As a matter of fact, there is nothing wrong with searching for help when you need some. Being a student in the 21st century is an overwhelming experience that can drive anyone into depression.

Regardless of how brilliant the paper might be, the student will fear that it has been plagiarized which is impossible given that it was a trusted and professional writing service that dealt with the order. Nonetheless, it does not prevent young people from thinking that everyone is eager to take advantage of them. They will constantly think that their personal data will be disclosed to the public which is another superstition associated with the professional writing industry. The rule of a thumb to follow here is that there is a need for searching solely for the original sample papers, which can truly show what the company or a writing service can provide the student with. What is more, no writing service in the world will not disclose your data as they do simply not collect it.

Education Has Changed

It should be mentioned here that the modern system of education has moved too far into the direction of online education as it deteriorates the very basic principle of people’s confidentiality. Nowadays, students do not feel protected when it comes to online authorization for the sake of submitting another essay. Modern society has been steeped so deeply into what the world of digital technologies is that even one’s desire to express one’s opinion on a particular topic requires preliminary authorization.

It Tracks not Only Our Online Moves

If you think that those are solely your online moves that are being tracked, you have to know that your physical movements are also being recorded. If you wonder how it is done, have a look at the smartphone in your pocket. Haven’t you ever noticed how strange it was to see a Facebook advertisement for the restaurant that you have just been to? Everything you do and everywhere you go is being recorded in order to turn you into a customer who would only think how to get a proper education, get a high-paid job, and then spend all of the money earned on buying new and absolutely unneeded stuff.

Conclusion

There is actually nothing to add to this topic as even if you are not a student, you have definitely already been through a depressing experience because of some tricks of the online world. You might not have noticed it, but wherever you go, the data about your movements are being collected, and it makes a normal person feel like a prisoner. There is no way a man can feel free and inspired to use his full academic potential when everything he has to think of is whether his private data is not being used at the very same moment for hacking a bank or funding a terrorist organization. Now, you understand how easy it is for the students to become depressed because of the online security-related issues.

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