Smart Phone Addiction Essay

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The purpose of this report is to investigate the addiction of smart phones in Singapore and how it has impact on work and family life. With a population rate of 5.4 million people in Singapore, almost 87 percent own a smart phone. A smart phone is a cellular telephone which comes with built-in applications and accessibility to the Internet. It also provides text messaging, e-mail, surfing web, video cameras etc. With the advanced technology today, users can also choose to install free or paid applications in their smart phones, which is similar to that of a mobile computer. (Emanuel et al. 2015)
According to a news report in 2014, psychiatrists in Singapore are pushing for medical authorities to raise the concern of addiction to the Internet …show more content…

(Stone 2014)
Smart phone addiction is a frequently observed phenomenon in which many people lowered their heads and using their digital devices constantly on the go. Addiction usually leads to negative effects and in most situations, people have the urge to perform certain activities so regularly that it becomes a harmful habit, which eventually affected their daily lives. (Walker …show more content…

People keep their smart phones near them from the minute they get up from bed until the moment they go to bed and throughout that time, the mobile devices provide an almost continuous stream of messages and notification alerts as well as an easy access to a myriad of compelling information sources. This will also cause one to have sleep disturbance which I will further discuss in the below

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