Causes Of Smartphone Addiction

Seventy two percent of teens feel the need to immediately respond to texts, social media messages and other notifications. You could be one of the people in the world who has a bit of nomophobia, an abbreviation of, no mobile phobia. This is the fear of not being able to use your smartphone. Are you not getting your work done? Or not doing well on tests because last night instead of studying you were on your smartphone? The issue of phone addiction is growing at a rapid rate. About seventy two percent of people said they are rarely more than five feet away from their phone at any time. The consequences of smartphone addiction can be very serious. Talking to your friends online all the time is different than talking to your friends in person. Communicating in person helps humans develop in ways that talking online cant. Also always being hunched over on your phone can have serious long term back issues or neck issues. These are just some of the issues that phone addiction can do to your life. There are many signs that show you could be addicted. When you wake up, you grab your phone and check it before you get up to pee. When you drop a

One thing we could do to help get rid of addiction is to customize notifications. If you get less notifications the less likely you are to check your phone. If you want to try and use your phone less you can set certain times you won 't use your phone such as meals or during events with your friends. If you still want to use your phone but not be doing as many things on it you can get rid of unnecessary apps. This way you are only doing one or two things on your phone instead of using ten apps at once. A really effective way to use your phone less is to get a watch and check the time from your watch. People go to check their phone for the time and then end up doing other things on their phone. These are some things where you can start to end your phone