However, there are several action can take to overcome the smartphone addiction. The smartphone addiction problem can caused health problem to teenager. The excessive use of smartphone can lead to eye problem. Long-time focusing on the smartphone tiny screen can cause the eye to be discomfort. According to Amanda (2014), eyestrain, blurred vision and dry eye are the effect of spending too much time on starting smartphone.
The most fundamental thing for communication is to deliver people’s personal idea and feelings and the simplest way to achieve it is talking. Only typing and texting on the smartphones loses the verbal communicating which at the same time the emotional issues are difficult to be delivered (Schwarz, Rebecca M 2008). Still, there comes a opinion that the developed technology in smartphone apps has a great help in the face-to-face communication between the disabilities. Professor Chia-Ming Chang from Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom wrote an study journal in showing that new apps nowadays can construct a conversation easily between two disabled people. “In the meantime, the smartphone communication technologies have opened new communication opportunities” (Chang 2015).
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In addition, Smartphone make children less physically active, they become lazy and unhealthy, so they will suffer from eyestrain (Amy Novontry.2016). Also Smartphone causes them to get less sleep. According to this study in the bedroom can bring about significantly less sleep, later bed times, and more fatigue (Casey Imafidon). And the most
Melissa Nilles, an Arts & Entertainment editor has stated, “Instead of spending time in person with friends, we just call, text or instant message them. It may seem simpler, but we ultimately end up seeing friends face to face a lot less” (Nilles). This shows that humans nowadays now have less experiences of the joy of true, face to face human interaction, because people text and use phones to talk. Also, Social skills in children are becoming worse from technology. Victoria Cobb, a graduate from the University of Dayton, has noticed that children have less social skills due to technology that they use in day to day life (Cobb).
These devices can be very beneficial and make things easier. However, they are mostly destructive in the world’s environment. Communication, one of the very most important skills is ruined by smartphones. People have lost the capability to socialize. Smartphones have taken over this aspect and have replaced it with associations only in the digital world.
(Kwon, et al., 2013) Smartphone addiction can be defined as being enslaved by the smartphones or an uncontrollable and damaging use of smartphones. (Lee, 2013) For example, replying phone messages while driving or watching videos while crossing the roads. The purpose of this paper is to find out the effects of smartphone addiction. The effects will be narrowed down into three aspects. The first aspects will be to determine the ways in which addiction to smartphones affects the young adult’s lifestyle.
Despite the few advantages, these devices have created a growing problem on society such as distraction and mental health issues. Smartphones have revolutionized humanity. In Shaw Nielsen's, "Smartphones Mean You Will No Longer Have to Memorize Facts," the writer discusses how people's memorization skills have been replaced by smartphones. Many cell phones have also replaced direct
Attention Grabber: 500 million smart phone users in the world today, of the 6 billion cell phone subscribers worldwide. That’s 8.3% of cell phone user population using smart phones, and 91.7% using dumb phones. That shows that over 90% uses dumb phones, an overwhelming majority of the world! b. Reason for speaking on this topic: I feel very passionate about this topic!
However mobile phones have caused playing a major role in our lives by making physical contact less and making it a limited conversation at a phone call or texting you and replying you late. It is causing personal relationship problems by having less interpersonal interaction between a wife and husband, parents and their child and even a teacher and a student. It is also causing health