Going back to Hwang, Yoori and Se-Hoon Jeong; and Liu et al., their approach involves different findings about the smartphone use patterns and specific measures to prevent and mediate in cases of excessive usages. The study reported in “Smartphone Gaming and Frequent Use Pattern Associated with Smartphone Addiction,” by authors Liu et al., shows a remarkable effect on smartphone addiction accusing “smartphone gaming posed a higher risk for smartphone addiction than internet addiction” (Liu et al.).
These technological addictions are considered behavioral addiction involving human interactions. Moreover, there should be age based restriction to control. Overuse of the smartphone has its adverse effects on the life of human beings. Hence, parental
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Bakker portray that it takes more concerns on human psychological impacts of smartphone addiction. They believe “intensive smartphone users, in particular, have the potential to decrease … psychological detachment and relaxation” (Derks, Daantje and Arnold B. Bakker 434). They emphasized the employee’s viewpoint considering addiction of smartphones while they are at home. In the end, their article focuses primarily on how smartphone use impacts daily recovery work-home interference and daily stress indicators for the employees. In contrast, Derks and Arnold B, Overton et al. have a different perspective in their articles preference on distracted driving with the use of smartphones creating a huge emerging issue in today’s context. In “Distracted Driving: Prevalence, Problems, and Prevention,” Overton et al. claims that the use of the cell phones while driving is the major problems for major road accidents and fatalities. Each year, more than 100,000 crashes resulting in injury and death involve texting drivers (National Safety Council, 2013). This regards that there must be some strict regulations to control an emerging issue for distracted drivers. Furthermore, Overton et al. affirms that “though there is not an absolute correlation with distractive driving and motor vehicle accidents, driving patterns displayed by distracted drivers increase the …show more content…
addressed a very good awareness of the truth for smartphone addiction on emerging issues. Smartphones have become a superficially universal part of human culture. Life without a smartphone is possible, but the addiction stresses the life by being more dependent and at ease. The technological development mostly nowadays alters the smartphone use, which is convenient and beneficial in different perspectives. Though Emanuel et al. may be factual that it is hard to predict life without a smartphone in today’s world, but they must point out that there are many places where smartphone addiction is not an emerging
The article that I will be summarizing is “Half of Teens Think They’re Addicted to Their Smartphones” written by Kelly Wallace. This article is about how teens are addicted to their smartphones and how it is becoming a problem. The text is stating facts about how many teens and adults use their smartphones. Teens depend on their phone greatly which can make it hard to get off of it. This does worry people. Teens also say they check their phone hourly, so they also feel that they need to respond to texts and social networking messages immediately. Teens are not the only ones that are addicted though. Even parents have trouble getting off the phone to enjoy life. If you have this trouble and feel like you want to get on
Now a days, almost everyone has access to a smartphone. It is said that smartphones can be addictive. Tristan Harris article, “The Slot Machine in Your Pocket” states that it is gets really bad to the point where they take advantage of human weaknesses to ensure your constant attention. Harris says that, “When we get sucked into our smartphones or distracted, we think it 's just an accident and our responsibility. But it 's not. It 's also because smartphones and apps hijack our innate psychological biases and vulnerabilities” (Harris, 2016). When people look at their smart phones, they look at it for multiple reasons, but the most common reason is to see if you have gotten a notification. I agree with Harris because many people who do online
Because of ”tethering” only on smartphones, distraction could be the sereve problem to adolescents. Regarding smartphones offer many accesses to social media where most adolescents could look for something interesting and people like them, they are willing to check their phone constantly. Flora Carlin explores that when checking and focusing on smartphones, the stress of temporary distraction may create potential long-term brain damage. According to “a big concern is not just how teens are using their phones but rather the ‘technological anxiety’ and nomophobia (the feeling someone gets in the absence of their phone), that distract them from other tasks”. It’s a big concern that smartphones are making adolescents less capable of resisting urges.
The past two decades have overwhelmed the human experience with technology, along with all its distractions. The direct relationship between the mind and the body’s ability to adjust from these distractions can be extremely difficult .Further research has shown that it has become an addiction for many. Technology has significantly improved our lives as a whole through experiences such as Global Positioning System (GPS), cell phones and social networking allowing us to communicate with different people around the world. These technologies make our daily lives easier and more efficient. However, this also discusses the effects of technology on various aspects of our everyday personal experiences both with each other and with the world around us. On the other hand technologies such as cell phones have become a problem in getting students to focus in class and distracting drivers and thus, resulting in vehicle accidents. Technology is beneficial, but can also become an inescapable distraction in our lives. It is important to view technology as having the ability to make our lives better or worse, yet also as having the ability to change our personal lives and behavioral patterns.
Raise your hand if you’re one of 44% of Americans that sleep next to their phones at every night. It’s true, so many of us are dependent on our mobile devices, that psychologists are now calling it the “Invisible Addiction”! Since its invention critics have debated every inch of the cell phone. From its usefulness and size, to its effects on health after prolonged usage. The conversation has since shifted. The cell phone market today is flooded with a plethora devices to choose from, sporting top of the line materials and industry leading software, but this just scratches the surface. With over 968 million worldwide smartphone sales in 2013, consumers are feeding into the latest technology that the market has to offer. Though they may become
With the fast development of the Internet and digital space, a person can easily addict to being “plugged in” in this modern society. There are many electronic devices around us so people at first learn how to use and gradually get addicted with them. Addiction to being “plugged in” is a serious problem because of the negative effect from it such as health, the danger side of the Internet. Myself, as a millennial, who was born in a developing generation, can also easily get addicted to being “plugged in” but I know when and where to control my use in electronic devices.
Internet is a big problem in our society today. Many people use internet without knowing it, even I use internet without knowing that I am using too much I consider myself as an addict because I check my Facebook at least 3 times a day and text every time while I eat too. In high school, I used to use my phone in the class because it was allowed in class and teacher didn’t mind but in college I have to tell myself to not use phone in class since it is very important to achieve my goals and get a degree.
As the time passes, technology is expanding and developing many creative ideas. Unlike past, nowadays we have computers, TVs, internet, and many inventions that contain bad and good effects on us. Children used to interact with society by hanging out and playing sports with each other, but now as we can see a big percentage of children who play video games for many hours daily. Addiction controls life of people, there is addiction to drugs, cigarettes, alcohol or gambling, and there are some forms of addiction associated with modern life, such as Internet and video games.
Over the last few decades, the use of cell phones has become a very common tool. Furthermore, Technology has certainly advanced, and the cell phone is becoming the most preferred mode of communication. The demand for a cell phone is growing every day. In addition, the use of wireless technology is affordable, and anyone can buy a cell phone at a reasonable price. They come in all shapes and sizes. They range from black to bright metallic white. American public use of cell phones is increasing everyday. As the number of people using cell phones increase, the use of cell phones while driving will also increase on our streets and highways. At the same rate, motorists still converse on cell phones and write text messages while driving. Motorist will also engage in other activities apart from driving. For example, drivers will text when driving, and they will dial numbers. Drivers will receive calls and converse with the recipient for long periods. Again, driving demands your full attention, and your concentration needed when talking on the phone. However, it means that the driver has to divert his attention to the conversation, which leads to less concentration on the road. On the contrary, one can therefore connect motorist’s accidents and cell phone usage while driving.
Not everyone is addicted to a device, but those who are receive many aftereffects from them. A major issue is physical health. Electronic users
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Nowadays, smartphone addiction is a phenomenon that is getting worse. From 2011, the ratio of the smartphone addiction risk group more than doubled in 2013 and increased 7.1% from a year ago. Because of this convenience, teenagers rely on smartphones too much. Rosen said that (as cited in Corbett, 2012), your iPhone can act as a stimulus to your brain, meaning you get a feel-good dopamine rush from checking it, which furthers your technology addiction.
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Smartphones have become virtually vital in people’s lives. However, the growing number of people addicting to it is rapidly increasing at an alarming rate. Thus, it leads to smartphone addiction, so-called nomophobia, which has become a social problem among not only teenagers but also adults. According to the 2015 Trends in Consumer Mobility Report, 71% of mobile consumers say they sleep next to their smartphones and 35% of them say that the first thing they do in morning is to check their notifications (Huffman, 2015). Based on personal observation, smartphones does occupy a large amount of time among college students. Every day, students spend time texting, calling, and emailing, taking photos to serve personal and school’s purposes. Besides
Technology addiction is almost similar to drug addiction. Technology is useful in many ways. Using computer, internet, cellphone, television etc. make peoples’ life easier and comfortable. Young people are the most user of it. They cannot think of a single day without use technical device. Tara Parker-Pope is an author of books on health topics and a columnist for the New York Times. In her article , she expressed that, “The International Center for Media and the Public Agenda at the University of Maryland asked 200 students to refrain from using electronic media for a day. The reports from students after the study suggest that giving up technology cold turkey not only makes life logistically difficult, but also changes our ability to connect with others.” ( Parker-Pope, “An Ugly Toll of Technology: Inpatients”). Her point is that, for the young generation it is quite impossible to give up from becoming addict...