Smartphones's Negative Effects On Teenagers

Negative effect of smartphones on teenager today’s Nowadays, Technology is playing a very important role in people’s life. Its keeps on developing everyday to make the life of each person easier. One of technology are very popular is Smartphones. At present, Smartphones are in the hands of almost every teenager. It has become so common that young children are starting to ask their parent for one. For this reason, it cause of problem in today’s society, our generation is known as the “texting generation “It true that smartphones have many advantage but if teenager using Smart phones too much it can make negative effect on them in the same time such as on their relationship,education and health. It seems that smartphones

Smart phones affect human social interactions in our social life.Using smart phones destroy the ability of people to interact directly with other human.People nowadays prefer to spend more time on smart phones rather than interact with other people. They are no longer emphasizing their communication among people as they thought that the social networking sites has allowed people to stay contact with each other. Furthermore, the pervasive use of smart phone take over people attention. For instance, they keep focusing on their smart phones screen for accessing social networking site instead of chatting with friends sitting beside them. Due to overabundance of using smart phones, this scenario will result in distraction and isolation relationship among people. According to Helen Lee Lin, "A group of friend sits down to a meal together, laughing, swapping stories, and catching up on the new but not necessarily with the people in front it them."(2012) Teenagers are checking their smartphones at every meal regardless of whom they are dinning with. Although there are a lot of people around them but they use their smartphone anytime anywhere. They are spending time with their smartphone than with their partner. Examples, we always can see people chatting with friend, play games on their smartphones at public place such as MRT, BTS, bus or walking street. As Kerner say, "Technology

Smartphone are helping in education of teenager in many ways such as search for information, search for lesson. This is one of the sources of distracting .This is not only distracting for the student, but it can also become distracting for other student around them and even sometimes for whole class. Some teenager using smartphone in the wrong way example, they use smartphone during exams to cheat moreover, they use of the text massage exchange with other student to fine answer on internet, and using calculator and phone applications on their phones to help on the test. The effect of overuse of smartphone is that students might spent less time on work or homework. Those times are misspent on gaming and chatting with friends with the smartphone, or using the smartphone to to less important things comparing to homework. Their focus will be switched onto the smartphone whenever messages get in or notifications pop out. Even they were working before the message; there is a high chance that they will continue to use the smartphone after replying the Also students spent less time on sleeping due to the distractions from the smartphone. They might need to complete work overnight which they should be able to finish with the time spending on the smartphone previously. The stacking of workload reduces their sleeping time. Also, the entertainment functions of the smartphone might make students fail to sleep early.