Textbook: Social health | Science and Technology Class 10 (Maharashtra SSC Board) PDF Download

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9. Social health
Elders always instruct you to get out of the home to interact with 
relatives and others and play outdoor games but not to spend time 
continuously with television, phone and internet.
Let’s Think
 Why the children of your age are instructed same in each home? Our lifestyle has 
been changed to some extent in this age of technology. Each person is busy with own daily 
routine work and favourite job only. How much is it scientifically correct?
Earlier, we have studied the importance of physical health, cleanliness and staying healthy. 
However, the concept of health does not end with it only. 
Ø  Social Health  Ø Factors endangering the social health 
Ø  Stress Management 
Try this
 Classify your classmates into following groups depending 
upon the observation for a week.
1. Highly interactive. 2. Occasionally interactive. 3. Non-interactive 
Factors affecting 
the social health
 Make a list of the friends of each of the above three group members and also mention 
the group to which you belong. 
Social health
9.1 Factors affecting the social health
Observe and Discuss
Observe the following chart. Discuss about the relationship 
of various factors shown therein with the social health.
Gardens
Financial
Status
Education Satisfying basic needs of 
persons-Food, clothing, 
shelter, medicines.
Social environment of 
the surrounding 
Education and Job 
Opportunities
Water
Transport Facilities
Social safety
Social treatment
Toilets
Political conditions (views)
Play grounds
Residential area
Social and Physical 
conditions of the 
surrounding
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9. Social health
Elders always instruct you to get out of the home to interact with 
relatives and others and play outdoor games but not to spend time 
continuously with television, phone and internet.
Let’s Think
 Why the children of your age are instructed same in each home? Our lifestyle has 
been changed to some extent in this age of technology. Each person is busy with own daily 
routine work and favourite job only. How much is it scientifically correct?
Earlier, we have studied the importance of physical health, cleanliness and staying healthy. 
However, the concept of health does not end with it only. 
Ø  Social Health  Ø Factors endangering the social health 
Ø  Stress Management 
Try this
 Classify your classmates into following groups depending 
upon the observation for a week.
1. Highly interactive. 2. Occasionally interactive. 3. Non-interactive 
Factors affecting 
the social health
 Make a list of the friends of each of the above three group members and also mention 
the group to which you belong. 
Social health
9.1 Factors affecting the social health
Observe and Discuss
Observe the following chart. Discuss about the relationship 
of various factors shown therein with the social health.
Gardens
Financial
Status
Education Satisfying basic needs of 
persons-Food, clothing, 
shelter, medicines.
Social environment of 
the surrounding 
Education and Job 
Opportunities
Water
Transport Facilities
Social safety
Social treatment
Toilets
Political conditions (views)
Play grounds
Residential area
Social and Physical 
conditions of the 
surrounding
102
 Out of the various aspects of social health, we thought about only one in the above 
mentioned activity. Social health is the ability of a person to establish relationship with 
other persons. Ability to change one’s own behaviour according to changing social 
conditions is an important characteristic of social health. Various factors like strong 
personality, having large number of friends and relatives, proper use of time during 
loneliness and with peer-group, trust in others, respect and acceptance for others are 
important for good social health. We have seen that various factors affect the social health. 
Factors disturbing the social health
Mental Stress
Competition has increased in opportunities for education, employment and business 
due to increase in population. Children are facing the problems of loneliness and mental 
stress due to reasons like nuclear family and parents staying outdoors due to job. 
9.2 Mental Stress
There are many bindings on girls and excessive freedom for 
boys in some families. Boys enjoy the concession from their 
domestic duties whereas girls have compulsion for the same 
on the pretext that ‘should be used to it’. Do you see the 
advertisements about increasing awareness on avoiding the 
discrimination between girls and boys or sister and brother 
in same family on choice for fresh/left-over food, learning 
medium? In society too, adolescent girls have to 
unnecessarily face the problems like teasing and molestation. 
Girls are facing the problem of stress due to such gender 
inequality. 
 Nowadays, everyone has to face the stress due to ever increasing disorder, crime and 
violence. At the same time, people looking at this as ‘fast and easy way of making money’ 
may become scapegoats and become part of such system. This is the deadly effect of 
social illness.
9.3  Addiction control  
Addiction
Peer-group influence is stronger in case of 
adolescents. Adolescents always prefer the 
company of friends and follow their good or 
bad habits instead of following advice of 
parents and teachers. Children in their early 
age try upon tobacco, cigarette, gutkha, 
alcoholic drinks, drugs, etc. due to either peer-
-group pressure or symbol of high standard 
living or as an imitation of elders. However, it 
may lead to addiction to such deadly substances. 
Temporarily intoxicating drugs of plant origin 
and some chemicals may permanently damage 
the human nervous system, muscle system, 
heart, etc. Earlier, we have studied the 
carcinogenic effect of tobacco containing 
substances on mouth and lungs.
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9. Social health
Elders always instruct you to get out of the home to interact with 
relatives and others and play outdoor games but not to spend time 
continuously with television, phone and internet.
Let’s Think
 Why the children of your age are instructed same in each home? Our lifestyle has 
been changed to some extent in this age of technology. Each person is busy with own daily 
routine work and favourite job only. How much is it scientifically correct?
Earlier, we have studied the importance of physical health, cleanliness and staying healthy. 
However, the concept of health does not end with it only. 
Ø  Social Health  Ø Factors endangering the social health 
Ø  Stress Management 
Try this
 Classify your classmates into following groups depending 
upon the observation for a week.
1. Highly interactive. 2. Occasionally interactive. 3. Non-interactive 
Factors affecting 
the social health
 Make a list of the friends of each of the above three group members and also mention 
the group to which you belong. 
Social health
9.1 Factors affecting the social health
Observe and Discuss
Observe the following chart. Discuss about the relationship 
of various factors shown therein with the social health.
Gardens
Financial
Status
Education Satisfying basic needs of 
persons-Food, clothing, 
shelter, medicines.
Social environment of 
the surrounding 
Education and Job 
Opportunities
Water
Transport Facilities
Social safety
Social treatment
Toilets
Political conditions (views)
Play grounds
Residential area
Social and Physical 
conditions of the 
surrounding
102
 Out of the various aspects of social health, we thought about only one in the above 
mentioned activity. Social health is the ability of a person to establish relationship with 
other persons. Ability to change one’s own behaviour according to changing social 
conditions is an important characteristic of social health. Various factors like strong 
personality, having large number of friends and relatives, proper use of time during 
loneliness and with peer-group, trust in others, respect and acceptance for others are 
important for good social health. We have seen that various factors affect the social health. 
Factors disturbing the social health
Mental Stress
Competition has increased in opportunities for education, employment and business 
due to increase in population. Children are facing the problems of loneliness and mental 
stress due to reasons like nuclear family and parents staying outdoors due to job. 
9.2 Mental Stress
There are many bindings on girls and excessive freedom for 
boys in some families. Boys enjoy the concession from their 
domestic duties whereas girls have compulsion for the same 
on the pretext that ‘should be used to it’. Do you see the 
advertisements about increasing awareness on avoiding the 
discrimination between girls and boys or sister and brother 
in same family on choice for fresh/left-over food, learning 
medium? In society too, adolescent girls have to 
unnecessarily face the problems like teasing and molestation. 
Girls are facing the problem of stress due to such gender 
inequality. 
 Nowadays, everyone has to face the stress due to ever increasing disorder, crime and 
violence. At the same time, people looking at this as ‘fast and easy way of making money’ 
may become scapegoats and become part of such system. This is the deadly effect of 
social illness.
9.3  Addiction control  
Addiction
Peer-group influence is stronger in case of 
adolescents. Adolescents always prefer the 
company of friends and follow their good or 
bad habits instead of following advice of 
parents and teachers. Children in their early 
age try upon tobacco, cigarette, gutkha, 
alcoholic drinks, drugs, etc. due to either peer-
-group pressure or symbol of high standard 
living or as an imitation of elders. However, it 
may lead to addiction to such deadly substances. 
Temporarily intoxicating drugs of plant origin 
and some chemicals may permanently damage 
the human nervous system, muscle system, 
heart, etc. Earlier, we have studied the 
carcinogenic effect of tobacco containing 
substances on mouth and lungs.
103
Chronic diseases 
Ignorance towards the people 
suffering from chronic diseases like 
AIDS, T.B, Leprosy and Mental 
health / disorders and old persons 
leads to increase in old age homes 
and this may cause harm to social 
health.
Have you ever seen the persons inebriated with drugs or liquor loitering on dirty 
places? Whether such a pitiful condition of most intelligent human being is acceptable?
You must have read the news about many deaths due to poisonous liquor. Why does 
it happen? 
Liquor is produced from alcohol obtained through fermentation of substances. 
However, if this process is performed in a wrong way, poisonous liquor is produced and 
proves fatal for many at a time. Efficiency of nervous system (especially brain) and liver 
as well as lifespan of person decreases due to alcoholism. Brain development in adolescents 
is hindered due to alcoholism and thereby ability of memorization and learning becomes 
slow. Addictive person cannot think rationally. Due to this, the person has to face the 
social, mental and familial illness along with physical illness.
Communication Media and excessive use of Modern Technology
Two caricatures presenting the situations of the year 1998 and 2017 about playing on 
playground are given below. Observe those caricatures. Express 
your opinion about arising of such different situations Observe
Then Now
Compare
 Distribute the 24 hours of your daily routine as per various duties you 
have observed. Make two categories as time spent on your health and 
time spent on other responsibilities and compare both the categories. 
9.5 Different Situations
Think
9.4 An incidence
Go to play!
Come for 
Study!
Can you tell ? 
Whether the incidence shown 
in the following picture is 
rational? Express your opinion.
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9. Social health
Elders always instruct you to get out of the home to interact with 
relatives and others and play outdoor games but not to spend time 
continuously with television, phone and internet.
Let’s Think
 Why the children of your age are instructed same in each home? Our lifestyle has 
been changed to some extent in this age of technology. Each person is busy with own daily 
routine work and favourite job only. How much is it scientifically correct?
Earlier, we have studied the importance of physical health, cleanliness and staying healthy. 
However, the concept of health does not end with it only. 
Ø  Social Health  Ø Factors endangering the social health 
Ø  Stress Management 
Try this
 Classify your classmates into following groups depending 
upon the observation for a week.
1. Highly interactive. 2. Occasionally interactive. 3. Non-interactive 
Factors affecting 
the social health
 Make a list of the friends of each of the above three group members and also mention 
the group to which you belong. 
Social health
9.1 Factors affecting the social health
Observe and Discuss
Observe the following chart. Discuss about the relationship 
of various factors shown therein with the social health.
Gardens
Financial
Status
Education Satisfying basic needs of 
persons-Food, clothing, 
shelter, medicines.
Social environment of 
the surrounding 
Education and Job 
Opportunities
Water
Transport Facilities
Social safety
Social treatment
Toilets
Political conditions (views)
Play grounds
Residential area
Social and Physical 
conditions of the 
surrounding
102
 Out of the various aspects of social health, we thought about only one in the above 
mentioned activity. Social health is the ability of a person to establish relationship with 
other persons. Ability to change one’s own behaviour according to changing social 
conditions is an important characteristic of social health. Various factors like strong 
personality, having large number of friends and relatives, proper use of time during 
loneliness and with peer-group, trust in others, respect and acceptance for others are 
important for good social health. We have seen that various factors affect the social health. 
Factors disturbing the social health
Mental Stress
Competition has increased in opportunities for education, employment and business 
due to increase in population. Children are facing the problems of loneliness and mental 
stress due to reasons like nuclear family and parents staying outdoors due to job. 
9.2 Mental Stress
There are many bindings on girls and excessive freedom for 
boys in some families. Boys enjoy the concession from their 
domestic duties whereas girls have compulsion for the same 
on the pretext that ‘should be used to it’. Do you see the 
advertisements about increasing awareness on avoiding the 
discrimination between girls and boys or sister and brother 
in same family on choice for fresh/left-over food, learning 
medium? In society too, adolescent girls have to 
unnecessarily face the problems like teasing and molestation. 
Girls are facing the problem of stress due to such gender 
inequality. 
 Nowadays, everyone has to face the stress due to ever increasing disorder, crime and 
violence. At the same time, people looking at this as ‘fast and easy way of making money’ 
may become scapegoats and become part of such system. This is the deadly effect of 
social illness.
9.3  Addiction control  
Addiction
Peer-group influence is stronger in case of 
adolescents. Adolescents always prefer the 
company of friends and follow their good or 
bad habits instead of following advice of 
parents and teachers. Children in their early 
age try upon tobacco, cigarette, gutkha, 
alcoholic drinks, drugs, etc. due to either peer-
-group pressure or symbol of high standard 
living or as an imitation of elders. However, it 
may lead to addiction to such deadly substances. 
Temporarily intoxicating drugs of plant origin 
and some chemicals may permanently damage 
the human nervous system, muscle system, 
heart, etc. Earlier, we have studied the 
carcinogenic effect of tobacco containing 
substances on mouth and lungs.
103
Chronic diseases 
Ignorance towards the people 
suffering from chronic diseases like 
AIDS, T.B, Leprosy and Mental 
health / disorders and old persons 
leads to increase in old age homes 
and this may cause harm to social 
health.
Have you ever seen the persons inebriated with drugs or liquor loitering on dirty 
places? Whether such a pitiful condition of most intelligent human being is acceptable?
You must have read the news about many deaths due to poisonous liquor. Why does 
it happen? 
Liquor is produced from alcohol obtained through fermentation of substances. 
However, if this process is performed in a wrong way, poisonous liquor is produced and 
proves fatal for many at a time. Efficiency of nervous system (especially brain) and liver 
as well as lifespan of person decreases due to alcoholism. Brain development in adolescents 
is hindered due to alcoholism and thereby ability of memorization and learning becomes 
slow. Addictive person cannot think rationally. Due to this, the person has to face the 
social, mental and familial illness along with physical illness.
Communication Media and excessive use of Modern Technology
Two caricatures presenting the situations of the year 1998 and 2017 about playing on 
playground are given below. Observe those caricatures. Express 
your opinion about arising of such different situations Observe
Then Now
Compare
 Distribute the 24 hours of your daily routine as per various duties you 
have observed. Make two categories as time spent on your health and 
time spent on other responsibilities and compare both the categories. 
9.5 Different Situations
Think
9.4 An incidence
Go to play!
Come for 
Study!
Can you tell ? 
Whether the incidence shown 
in the following picture is 
rational? Express your opinion.
104
Now a days, excessive, unnecessary and irrational use of modern technology and 
communication media is becoming a sensitive issue through the view point of social health. 
Persons spending the time with cell phones for several hours are usually unaware of the 
surrounding. This is also a sort of addiction and leading to endangering of the social health. 
Various physical problems like tiredness, headache, insomnia, forgetfulness, tinnitus, 
joint pains and problems in vision may arise due to radiation of cell phones. More serious 
fact is those radiations penetrate the bones of children more effectively than the bones of 
adults. Persons continuously using the computers and internet become solitary. They cannot 
establish harmonious relations with relatives and other members of the society. Habitually, 
they become self-centered and thereby they may develop problems like autism and 
selfishness. They become less sensitive towards others. Chronic effect of such tendency is 
that they are not ready to help others in need and hence they also do not get it in need. 
1.  Do you recall the sudden closing of any cartoon serial of for-
eign origin being telecast on television?
2.  Explain details on happenings about blue whale game.
Recall a little
9.6 Boy using cell phone while eating
9.7 Selfie on Road
Observe
 Observe the above images Is it 
rational? Why?
•
•
•
 Children who watch the cartoon films may 
imitate the characters of those films. Tendency 
and behaviour of the children who play the games 
like virtual war and car races (especially 
deliberately brought about virtual accidents in 
games) gradually become negative. Some games 
available on cell phones and computers are 
extremely time-consuming and also cause 
economic losses, to lose concentration on some 
essential subjects and may also prove fatal. 
 Along with some useful purpose, huge 
information available on internet is used for 
viewing some inappropriate videos too. However, 
there is a governmental regulation over such 
media. Website, movies and cartoon films 
inappropriate for children are banned by the 
government. 
 Why is there increase in news of death by 
drowning in ocean, falling in deep valleys or 
under trains during catching the cell phone 
selfie?
 There is increasing competition to upload the 
videos of road accidents instead of helping the 
victims. What is the mentality of such people?
 Why are the video-clips of parents threatening 
or hitting the children not studying as per their 
wish or  domestic helpers beating the children 
are very common  on social media nowadays?
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9. Social health
Elders always instruct you to get out of the home to interact with 
relatives and others and play outdoor games but not to spend time 
continuously with television, phone and internet.
Let’s Think
 Why the children of your age are instructed same in each home? Our lifestyle has 
been changed to some extent in this age of technology. Each person is busy with own daily 
routine work and favourite job only. How much is it scientifically correct?
Earlier, we have studied the importance of physical health, cleanliness and staying healthy. 
However, the concept of health does not end with it only. 
Ø  Social Health  Ø Factors endangering the social health 
Ø  Stress Management 
Try this
 Classify your classmates into following groups depending 
upon the observation for a week.
1. Highly interactive. 2. Occasionally interactive. 3. Non-interactive 
Factors affecting 
the social health
 Make a list of the friends of each of the above three group members and also mention 
the group to which you belong. 
Social health
9.1 Factors affecting the social health
Observe and Discuss
Observe the following chart. Discuss about the relationship 
of various factors shown therein with the social health.
Gardens
Financial
Status
Education Satisfying basic needs of 
persons-Food, clothing, 
shelter, medicines.
Social environment of 
the surrounding 
Education and Job 
Opportunities
Water
Transport Facilities
Social safety
Social treatment
Toilets
Political conditions (views)
Play grounds
Residential area
Social and Physical 
conditions of the 
surrounding
102
 Out of the various aspects of social health, we thought about only one in the above 
mentioned activity. Social health is the ability of a person to establish relationship with 
other persons. Ability to change one’s own behaviour according to changing social 
conditions is an important characteristic of social health. Various factors like strong 
personality, having large number of friends and relatives, proper use of time during 
loneliness and with peer-group, trust in others, respect and acceptance for others are 
important for good social health. We have seen that various factors affect the social health. 
Factors disturbing the social health
Mental Stress
Competition has increased in opportunities for education, employment and business 
due to increase in population. Children are facing the problems of loneliness and mental 
stress due to reasons like nuclear family and parents staying outdoors due to job. 
9.2 Mental Stress
There are many bindings on girls and excessive freedom for 
boys in some families. Boys enjoy the concession from their 
domestic duties whereas girls have compulsion for the same 
on the pretext that ‘should be used to it’. Do you see the 
advertisements about increasing awareness on avoiding the 
discrimination between girls and boys or sister and brother 
in same family on choice for fresh/left-over food, learning 
medium? In society too, adolescent girls have to 
unnecessarily face the problems like teasing and molestation. 
Girls are facing the problem of stress due to such gender 
inequality. 
 Nowadays, everyone has to face the stress due to ever increasing disorder, crime and 
violence. At the same time, people looking at this as ‘fast and easy way of making money’ 
may become scapegoats and become part of such system. This is the deadly effect of 
social illness.
9.3  Addiction control  
Addiction
Peer-group influence is stronger in case of 
adolescents. Adolescents always prefer the 
company of friends and follow their good or 
bad habits instead of following advice of 
parents and teachers. Children in their early 
age try upon tobacco, cigarette, gutkha, 
alcoholic drinks, drugs, etc. due to either peer-
-group pressure or symbol of high standard 
living or as an imitation of elders. However, it 
may lead to addiction to such deadly substances. 
Temporarily intoxicating drugs of plant origin 
and some chemicals may permanently damage 
the human nervous system, muscle system, 
heart, etc. Earlier, we have studied the 
carcinogenic effect of tobacco containing 
substances on mouth and lungs.
103
Chronic diseases 
Ignorance towards the people 
suffering from chronic diseases like 
AIDS, T.B, Leprosy and Mental 
health / disorders and old persons 
leads to increase in old age homes 
and this may cause harm to social 
health.
Have you ever seen the persons inebriated with drugs or liquor loitering on dirty 
places? Whether such a pitiful condition of most intelligent human being is acceptable?
You must have read the news about many deaths due to poisonous liquor. Why does 
it happen? 
Liquor is produced from alcohol obtained through fermentation of substances. 
However, if this process is performed in a wrong way, poisonous liquor is produced and 
proves fatal for many at a time. Efficiency of nervous system (especially brain) and liver 
as well as lifespan of person decreases due to alcoholism. Brain development in adolescents 
is hindered due to alcoholism and thereby ability of memorization and learning becomes 
slow. Addictive person cannot think rationally. Due to this, the person has to face the 
social, mental and familial illness along with physical illness.
Communication Media and excessive use of Modern Technology
Two caricatures presenting the situations of the year 1998 and 2017 about playing on 
playground are given below. Observe those caricatures. Express 
your opinion about arising of such different situations Observe
Then Now
Compare
 Distribute the 24 hours of your daily routine as per various duties you 
have observed. Make two categories as time spent on your health and 
time spent on other responsibilities and compare both the categories. 
9.5 Different Situations
Think
9.4 An incidence
Go to play!
Come for 
Study!
Can you tell ? 
Whether the incidence shown 
in the following picture is 
rational? Express your opinion.
104
Now a days, excessive, unnecessary and irrational use of modern technology and 
communication media is becoming a sensitive issue through the view point of social health. 
Persons spending the time with cell phones for several hours are usually unaware of the 
surrounding. This is also a sort of addiction and leading to endangering of the social health. 
Various physical problems like tiredness, headache, insomnia, forgetfulness, tinnitus, 
joint pains and problems in vision may arise due to radiation of cell phones. More serious 
fact is those radiations penetrate the bones of children more effectively than the bones of 
adults. Persons continuously using the computers and internet become solitary. They cannot 
establish harmonious relations with relatives and other members of the society. Habitually, 
they become self-centered and thereby they may develop problems like autism and 
selfishness. They become less sensitive towards others. Chronic effect of such tendency is 
that they are not ready to help others in need and hence they also do not get it in need. 
1.  Do you recall the sudden closing of any cartoon serial of for-
eign origin being telecast on television?
2.  Explain details on happenings about blue whale game.
Recall a little
9.6 Boy using cell phone while eating
9.7 Selfie on Road
Observe
 Observe the above images Is it 
rational? Why?
•
•
•
 Children who watch the cartoon films may 
imitate the characters of those films. Tendency 
and behaviour of the children who play the games 
like virtual war and car races (especially 
deliberately brought about virtual accidents in 
games) gradually become negative. Some games 
available on cell phones and computers are 
extremely time-consuming and also cause 
economic losses, to lose concentration on some 
essential subjects and may also prove fatal. 
 Along with some useful purpose, huge 
information available on internet is used for 
viewing some inappropriate videos too. However, 
there is a governmental regulation over such 
media. Website, movies and cartoon films 
inappropriate for children are banned by the 
government. 
 Why is there increase in news of death by 
drowning in ocean, falling in deep valleys or 
under trains during catching the cell phone 
selfie?
 There is increasing competition to upload the 
videos of road accidents instead of helping the 
victims. What is the mentality of such people?
 Why are the video-clips of parents threatening 
or hitting the children not studying as per their 
wish or  domestic helpers beating the children 
are very common  on social media nowadays?
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Internet My Friend
9.9 Cheating of Consumers
9.8 Pedestrian making a video-clip of the 
accident scene
Person indulging in such destructive and 
unnatural activities is usually under stress and 
such activities are bursting of stress. Medical 
science has declared such activities as mental 
illness. 
Person indulging in selfie is not aware about 
the world around and the risks. This is called as 
selfiecide. Persons indulging in domestic 
violence, sending messages to others before 
committing suicide or those who send the video 
clips of suicidal act are mentally ill and they do 
so to win the sympathy. 
Cyber crimes
t Banks continuously spread the message on mobile 
phones about not to disclose the aadhar / PAN / credit 
card  / debit card number and other personal information 
if demanded by any person.
t Do not disclose your PIN to anyone while withdrawing 
cash from ATM machine or purchasing through card 
payment. Why such instructions are given?
t Consumers are deceived by showing superior items on 
websites but actually selling the items of either inferior 
quality or impaired ones.
t Bank transactions are done using PIN without the 
knowledge of consumers.
t Confidential information about government, institutes 
and companies is obtained from internet with the help 
of computer programs or other ideas and misused. This 
is called as hacking of information. 
t Nowadays, crimes like opening a fake account on 
Facebook and displaying false information and thereby 
teasing the girls or exploiting them financially.
t Misuse or illegal sale of the written literature, software, 
photos, videos, music, etc. of others by obtaining from 
internet is called as piracy.
t Electronic media is also misused by sending derogatory 
messages, spreading vulgar pictures and inflammatory 
statements.
Hence, make the constructive use of communication media like television, phone and 
internet for essential needs and entertainment only but do not go into their clutches by 
spending hours with those media.