Akancha Srivastava

I'm teaming up with the Cyber police against online bullying/#abuse. Pls ping me if you've ever been a victim. Imp announcement Tom. Pls #RT

Skipping breakfast. Morning fasting spikes adrenaline and cortisol. It dysregulates appetite, worsens blood sugar after lunch and dinner, and is linked with higher rates of abdominal fat and metabolic syndrome.

The Anxious Generation was published two years ago today, in a very different world. Back then, the most common objection I got was resignation: "The train has left the station." "You can't put toothpaste back in the tube." "It's how the kids connect today." Today, the world looks very different. It turns out that if our kids were all on a train and we learned it was heading toward a collapsed bridge, we'd find a way to stop it and bring them safely back to the station. That’s what’s happening now. After the historic verdicts in Los Angeles and New Mexico, today is a great day to reflect on the capacity of people in democratic societies to take action, even when opposing some of the most powerful corporations in history. We're getting access to the courts. We're getting phone-free schools. We're seeing whole neighborhoods letting kids out to play, unsupervised, which is what we older folk all remember as the best part of childhood. So I want to recognize: --The mothers (and, right behind them, fathers) who rose up by the millions and powered the movement. --The farsighted governors and legislators in red states and blue states who have been innovating on policy solutions. --The leaders of a dozen of nations, who are raising the age to 16 for opening social media accounts (with a special shoutout to Australia, for going first). --The teachers and school administrators who had their classrooms disrupted for 15 years, and who are now eager to think through new solutions as screens have taken over and obstructed learning. --The grassroots organizations who have been dedicating their efforts to advocate for all of the above in their local communities. --The millions of members of Gen Z who have been rising up, demanding agency over how they spend their lives in the digital era, and finding better ways to connect in real life. And one final group: the survivor parents--the ones you saw in those pictures of people embracing on the front steps of the LA courthouse. I have met many over the years. I am in awe of their courage and tenacity, their willingness to tell their stories of loss, over and over again, to different audiences, in the hope that no other parent would have to endure what they have endured. At long last, juries and legislatures are hearing you, and are acting. Together, we are calling the train back to the station. Together, we are rolling back the phone based childhood and reclaiming life in the real world. The work continues. If you’re not already involved, join us: anxiousgeneration.com/join

@nirankar_Hegde Never

@AkanchaS Women were never safe?

So violence, cruelty and subjecting women to harsh scrutiny has always been the norm. Ofcourse saying no to a man always bears the danger of getting your face slashed or worse!

@Kunal__Singh1 @ASFCyberSafety Yes, has to be done one step at a time

@AkanchaS @ASFCyberSafety Getting rid of addiction is tough maam

Meta and YouTube found guilty by court of creating platforms that are addictive, causing #MentalHealth damage. Ofcourse they are! And we are over consuming this content leading to brain rot. Especially dangerous for children's growth. Take preventive measures now! #AkanchaSrivastavaFoundation #CyberSafety #India

@ikunalnaik @ASFCyberSafety I agree

@AkanchaS @ASFCyberSafety Before telling kids we have to improve maam

@itz_me_kairav_ @ASFCyberSafety Oh yes!

@AkanchaS @ASFCyberSafety Even adults are so tied to these social media platforms!!

This is gross. Digital necromancy is just preying on the weak and vulnerable to turn a quick buck.

I hate my clients

@GuddiAditi @ASFCyberSafety Exactly!

@AkanchaS @ASFCyberSafety Children are afraid to tell their parents and if they aren't believed, where will they go 😒

This is such an important video. Parents please watch! Please believe your children when they come to you and tell you some adult males them uncomfortable! ⛔ ⚠️ #AkanchaSrivastavaFoundation #India #CyberSafety #Children

@RaUsHaN__XX @ASFCyberSafety Please do

@AkanchaS @ASFCyberSafety Sharing with my friends and family group members

@AnishA_Moonka @DilliDurAst Cc @Icarus_Reloaded

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart. Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel. A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states. A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely. Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help. The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives. A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently. In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

@mimosa_pudica10 @ASFCyberSafety Ha ha ha

@AkanchaS @ASFCyberSafety We think we will live forever

Your digital identity survives beyond your lifetime, and unsecured accounts, photos, and data can be misused or exploited. Secure your digital legacy by assigning trusted access, using platform tools, and protecting critical information today. #AkanchaSrivastavaFoundation #India #CyberSafety #DigitalLegacy

@NK_Khan___ @ASFCyberSafety Thank you

@AkanchaS @ASFCyberSafety Interesting and informative maam

@Vonti_5 @ASFCyberSafety Please do think and act on it now

@AkanchaS @ASFCyberSafety Had never thought of it before

@BeingPractical @RaiseTheBarHQ This looks awesome! Congratulations!

Team at @RaiseTheBarHQ - keeps pushing us to do more, one step at a time! Photo-frame may be small, but our hearts are large 🫠🥰 And I still can’t believe we are 600+, we wouldn’t have been here without each other 🙏

تتعامل حالياً الدفاعات الجوية الإماراتية مع اعتداءات صاروخية وطائرات مسيرة قادمة من إيران وتؤكد وزارة الدفاع أن الأصوات المسموعة في مناطق متفرقة من الدولة هي نتيجة اعتراض كل من منظومات الدفاع الجوي للصواريخ البالستية، والمقاتلات للطائرات المسيرة والجوالة. UAE air defences are currently responding to incoming missile and drone threats from Iran MOD asserts that the sounds heard are the result of the Air Defence Systems intercepting missiles and drones #وزارة_الدفاع #وزارة_الدفاع_الإماراتية #MOD #UAEMinistryOfDefence