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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONGRESS

Digital life skills are among the primary literacy competencies of today's humanity. Studies developing on the axis of digitalism, especially in the health sector; It has become intensely encompassing economic, sociological, psychological, political, social, and educational fields. People who meet a new virtual space beyond the known are faced with the problem of where and how they will be positioned in the future's world. In this context, existential problems that threaten the functioning of the real world are in danger and at risk with their material and moral dimensions. The most obvious of these is digital addiction. 

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Addiction is one concept we use frequently in public health in the current century. Addiction is an irresistible effort to realize our desires and desires that we develop against any object or person. Until today, when addiction was mentioned, substance addiction, alcohol, cigarette, and other drug derivatives were understood. Today, new types of addiction, known as "behavioral addictions", which we have difficulty in expressing concretely, have become the leading issues of public health by creating new trends and transformations in living standards. Besides behavioral addictions in gambling, shopping, and eating habits, we face a new type of addiction that affects our lives, but we lose ourselves in the magical atmosphere of virtual communication by being exposed to the electromagnetic effects of digital devices. Although it is known that digital addiction, which we can call "Digital Cocaine", has a powerful impact on our lives compared to other types of addiction, it is observed that it has an increasing trend, especially in the young population. This situation has been crowned with the COVID-19 epidemic.

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In this context, the rapidly expanding new generation devices bring unexpected repercussions. Studies, especially in developed countries, prove that the rate of technology addiction threatens the young generation and public health, and thus results in serious social and personal problems. Relationships between friendships, even family, face-to-face sharing, which should be normal, are replaced by virtual sharing. Loving bodily relationships are replaced by, while leaving more to virtual relationships over social networks; It is seen that the change in question not only makes life monotonous among people through digital objects, but also causes corruption in some cultural values. Despite the rapid development of technology and communication tools, it is observed that there is a lack of awareness about the conscious use of technology. The digital objects in question; While it also reduces people's face-to-face communication with each other, it encourages people to use impolite and inappropriate words. This situation necessitates new legal regulations.

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This situation mentioned above is a problem that people living in the 21st century are exposed to. In this context, if technology products are used correctly and effectively, it will offer multidimensional opportunities to humanity in all aspects; At the same time, it brings with many problems that can be difficult to compensate for its misuse and out of purpose. The widespread and unconscious use of technology has also been the subject of scientific research. As seen in the results; New technologies bring about the uncontrolled flow of information through social media and many negative effects on people. Because of this reason, it is also said that the irregular and excessive use of digital technological tools causes many neuro-psychological disorders in humans.

There are different opinions about these developments among scientists. In this context, scientists who take for granted that everything comprises touching a button;Faced with such rapid development of digital technology, people's increasing desire is that they quickly incorporate it into their lives, along with an increase in the level of gluttony in time consumption. For this reason, scientists think that since people have access to all kinds of digital technological devices easily, it causes laziness in human physiology and brain structure and poses a serious threat to current health and development. In parallel with this, that spending longer than necessary with digital technological tools may cause a new type of addiction is also gaining popularity.

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Of course, it is a beautiful phenomenon that digital devices, which are technology products, have infiltrated into life intensively. Even if these technological products are used correctly and healthily, they will be the subject of scientific studies for a long time, as they bring up a separate problem (magnetic effect).

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