Why Do Teenagers Use Cell Phones?

Sixty eight years after the foundation of the first idea of cell phones, the changes which this technology device has undergone, are tremendously big. Their development in the past few years has amazed users worldwide and altogether with the applications recently, people, but mostly teenagers can easily become addictive to it. Although there are many advantages on operating with cell phones, there are plenty disadvantages of its usage and teenagers should have a limited time spending on their phones. Its violation on social norms brings risk on teenagers’ life in terms of personal security, increase of stress level and decrease of health, negative influence in interpersonal relationship and social interaction. These risks should be analyzed on more serious

More often this stress on teenagers is even compared with the level of anxiety of psychiatric patients (as cited in Clark, 2011), a statistic which clearly suggests how catastrophic the unlimited usage of mobile phones can be. Another important reason is also the fact that teenagers reduce their physical activities and replace their free time on using cell phones by using their energy on the screen of their phones as they generally sit while they are texting, sending emails or playing games on the phones. The results of a survey done by Health Center Magazine with 305 students on high school, show that those students who spend a minimum time of ninety minutes per day on their phone, are more fit comparing to those students who are highly addictive and spent up to14 hours in this device (as cited in Life, 2014). Such large amount of time wasted on the screen, suggests that stress and physical activities are not the only issues these teenagers are facing. Eventually, if these children continue using phones with the same tempo, they will have problems with headaches, dizziness, obesity, or muscular