Smart Phone Overuse Thesis

Smart phone overuse? Ways have been figured out!
A. Introduction
-General situation/ background information: The trend of Smart phone has quickly swept the globe since its invention only eight years ago. A report estimated that in 2015, for the first time, more than one quarter of the global population would own the smart phone (“2 Billion consumers,”2014), which can tell this little magical thing has already become an essential and irreplaceable part of modern world. But as the role it plays in our lives is becoming more and more important, the overuse problem comes along as well.
-Thesis statement: The overuse of smart phone, or so called “smart phone addiction”, causes many problems to the users, which both in mental and physical ways.

Some smart phone’s design factors like “Quick access to rewards” promote the formation of checking habit. (Oulasvirta et al., 2011)
-Negative consequences:
1. Higher rate occurrences of hand disorders and health-related problems like pain in neck and damage in eyes. (Demİrcİk et al, 2015)
2. Distract people while they doing daily tasks and cause the decrease of productivity.
3. Negatively influence people’s face to face communication skills and bring frictions to social relationships.
4. Make the “cyber bullying” more severe. (Soomro, 2013)
C. Solution and Evaluation
-Solution 1:
Topic sentence: The softest and simplest way is to learn some simple tricks to manage the smart phone usage by users themselves.
1. Turn to the airplane mode when the phone is not necessary to be used.
2. Put the phone in a place where it is not easy to reach during the work time.
3. Set a specific timetable in a day for message checking.
4. Turn off all the ringers and notifications.
5. Add some inconvenient factors to the phone like a long password.
Advantages:
1. This solution is simple enough to be operated by anyone.
2. It has the lowest input for no money is cost.
Disadvantages:
1. The solution only relies on people’s self-control so it may be hard for them to stick to for a long