Negative Effects Of Nomophobia

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How can a person in this day and age be away from technology? Approximately “90% of American adults have a cell phone” (Mobile Technology) and are constantly using the internet and interacting with people constantly. Before starting this project one word came into my head: Nomophobia - the fear of being away from your mobile device(Duerson, Meena Hart), and because of this experiment I realized that I have it. When I imagined having my phone being taken away I thought it was going to be hard but I NEVER processed the severity of the issue when it was in front of me. My very first reaction when I heard about this project was “no”, as I ironically looked up from my phone in class. I knew I would last maximum the amount of time that I sleep and that I’d forget about it the minute I woke up the next morning. I was correct. I looked it up online to see if other people had tried this and they had. It is said that women are 17% more likely to suffer from "nomophobia" than men (Fear of Being Phoneless). Well that made me feel better. So around 10 PM on …show more content…

Guess how long I lasted? 5 minutes. I thought I had made it a whole three hours because I was doing my computer science homework, until I realized I had been doing my homework on the internet. It had come to a point where I was about to throw my phone and computer against a wall because it made me so mad that I couldn’t go that long with out using either of them. Honestly, I thought I would be able to make it at least a day - that was optimism, and I was right. However, because of my friends who had known i was supposed to do this project had eventually stole my phone and wouldn 't give it back to me, which was when the anxiety started to set in. I was pissed off at first because the first few hours were torturous, especially because there was absolutely no warning. I was sure my parents had been texting me and that I would be in trouble for not answering for almost 8

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