Smartphone Addicts

SMARTPHONES ADDICT

Smartphone addiction is a phenomenon which is getting worse nowadays. Almost everyone owns a smartphone and people rely too much on their smartphones which cause them to lose their real life social skills. We often heard that people are hooked onto their smartphones and cause them to check their phone regularly whether in a bathroom or during having their meal. Computer technologies can be addictive because they alter mood and often trigger enjoyable feelings. Smartphones of course may be beneficial to us in many ways, but whether is it unhealthy? This depends whether it disrupt your work or family life.

There are many problems caused by smartphone addiction, marital issues are one of the, Women complained that they seeing their spouses spending a lot of time on the phone and found SMSes and e-mail to other women. Besides that, if parents are addicted to their smartphones, a gap will form between them and their children. Parents may also be unable to solve family problems because of smartphone addiction. As for teenagers, once they are addicted to smartphones whether for online chatting, texting or surfing, this will affect their studies as they will spend more time on their smartphones. I believe teenager will also use their smartphones to make friends on the internet and this type of friendship are usually unstable and temporary, teenager will lose their real life social skills too. I strongly agree that the Education Ministry disallow students to bring mobile phones to school.

Therefore, we should not misuse smartphone, if we manage our time of using smartphone properly, we may get many benefits from it. We should control ourselves from keep on using our smartphones. For example, we should not be using phones during a meal or family gathering. This can improve our relationship between our family member. Always be conscious on the situation and emotion that makes you want to check your phone. During a family gathering, be strong when your phone rings or beep, you can reply the text or return the call afterwards.

Lastly , in my point of view, everyone should make good use of their smartphones and not to be addicted to the smartphones.