Smartphone Addiction

Mental health issues are among the major negative effects that may result from excessive use of cell phones. Indeed, many people spend an important amount of time using their cell phones nowadays, and some of them become easily frustrated if they don’t have access to their device. For instance, some users expect to receive phone calls several times a day, whereas others expect to see positive comments regarding their pictures on social media, or receive and send text messages. This type of attitude may cause anxiety to

Cell phones and the computers are similar to each other in many different ways. One of the most common similarities is the internet aspect. With everyone connected to the internet, the adverse effects can spread throughout like a virus. “A Nielsen study released in 2010 indicated that texting was the primary reason for purchasing mobile phones and that text communication had become a "’centerpiece of mobile teen behavior.’" The modern smartphone of the 2010s is a powerful computing device, and the rapid and ongoing development of new applications provides users with a growing number of ways to use mobile phones for recreation, productivity, and social communication” (Issitt 2016). In the following Issitt states, “however, as smartphones have become more common, concerns about the detrimental effects of smartphone use have also increased.” (Issitt 2016). Issitt expresses the large growth of people with smartphones has its positives and negatives. The positives being the ability to communicate, but the negative being the effects on relationships with one another. An example of the negative side of things is the lack of interaction with people. People are more likely to call or text instead of interacting with one another. The lack of interaction can ruin relationships, or make people feel unwanted. In the article “Eurasian Journal of Educational Research,” the writer states that the internet, “can transform into an addictive instrument in excessive usage situations.” (Gunduz 2017). The statement explains the issue of the unnecessary use of the internet as a growing addictive process that is taking over more and more

Today Teenagers of the world have a new addiction. This new addiction is known as smartphones. Teenagers between 15&17 nowadays are using smartphones without limits. Everywhere you turn you see teens bending down or swiping or clicking their phones screen or sleeping with their smartphones under the pillow. Day after day smartphones are becoming more central to teenagers lives. A smartphone could be well-defines as a portable phone that has additional functions parallel to personal digital assistance devices. Smartphones simplify communication and offer fast and easy access to almost every single information needed in teens everyday life. But the fact the smartphones took place over other devices such as cameras, clocks, library books, and computer games make them more and more important, which also makes teens dependent to them. The benefits could be severely undermined if mishandling and over use are not kept in check and under controlled. Although older teenagers would disagree their use of smartphone should be monitored by parents, because smartphone are distracting teenagers, causing them health problems, in addition to encouraging them sexually.

When people think of addictions, usually, drugs and chemical substances come to mind. A frequent trend observed in today’s age is not being able to go anywhere without one’s digital device and being addicted to that device, especially one’s cell phone. Adopting a cell phone separation anxiety, is a type of behavioral addiction that is seen more and more today. On average, people are spending about three hours on their phones each day. Alter states, “‘Behavioral addictions are really widespread now...risen with the adoption of newer more addictive social networking platforms, tablets and smartphones’” (Dreifus). As new technologies that cater to people’s wants increase, addiction to these technologies will increase as well. People become so attached to their phones that they will perhaps get distracted from their current situation. In the article “Hooked On Our Smartphones”, the author Jane E. Brody talked about how sometimes commuters or drivers put themselves in a dangerous position when they pay more attention to their phone instead of what surrounds them. The almost

“My IPhone addiction was making me a terrible mom” is an article by Meredith Hale and was published in the Washington post in mar 2015. This article is about an everyday mom who let her addiction of utilizing her IPhone daily become a problem in her family lives. She delayed daily activities just by spending time on her phone and her children were somewhat unhappy. So she decided to stop complete use of her phone for a week. The author goes to explain how she became aware of her own addiction after returning a tablet she didn’t want her daughter to get addicted to. I do agree that she should have made a change to her use of the phone. However, I do not think a week without it completely solved the problem. She should have

According to an article published by Alabama State University, “Life is what happens when your smartphone is charging ”, suggesting that the modern cell phone, or smartphone, has become increasingly popular among most Americans daily lives. One reason cell phones have become popular is the numerous advantages that they offer; information can be accessed in seconds, communication is faster than ever, the list goes on. Cell phones have even become an integral part of learning (Cell Phones). Despite the numerous advantages of having a cell phone, the use of such a device can be addicting. Some might say that the Millennials of our society have a cell phone addiction. Recent studies have been conducted to observe and to determine what smartphone addiction is.

Throughout the past century, technology has rapidly evolved and spread to individuals around the world. Electronic devices such as computers, televisions, cell phones, and video games have been incorporated into the everyday lives of human beings. One of the most common electronic device circulating our world are smart phones, which have become customary in today’s society. While smart phones bring us many benefits such as communication, web access, and personal entertainment, their operators do not realize that prolonged use may have several dangerous effects on their health, social behavior, and mental development.

Ever since it was first introduced in the year 1973, the cell phone has evolved to become the device that holds the future within itself. Now referred to as the smartphone, the majority of the developing world’s population uses it now. It’s endless evolving functionalities, as apps and programs, are making the users see this piece of technology as a holy grail, but only much more accessible. Ever since its integration into our society, cell phones have given us the opportunity to connect to people at every inch of the world at anytime of the day. For ourselves, cell phones, particularly smartphones, have offered us an infinite amount of information all within the span of our hands. Its abilities outmatch even some desktops and laptops, all with the benefit of being mobile. The numbers of cellphone users have skyrocketed within recent years. With the growing number of cell phone users, the issue of cell phone overuse or addiction has been a question of much concern for psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of education. In recent studies, cell phone addiction or nomophobia, a short term coined by UK Post Office for "no-mobile-phone phobia” has been compared to other behavioral addictions such as gambling which are included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Nomophobia has not made its entrance into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual even though it has the symptoms that parallel those that behavioral addictions have. The reason this has not been placed into the

In “Jessie Brown: Who Says Smartphone Addiction is bad thing? The case for constant connectivity” (Brown, 2012), Brown claims that the cellphone is not the problem, in fact, it is the person and how they choose to value their time while using smartphones.

The author uses technology based addiction first hand from other users, About technology addiction. They find that multiple people have blackberry or cellphone addictions. The author proceeds to give solutions to help break the addiction one might be struggling with, This article can be found via google search or WebMd search.

If you go to a public place what do you see? People glued to their phone? iPad? iPod? Laptop? Or whatever new technology that just came out, right? Maybe you’re one of them. Do you ever have trouble staying off your phone or computer? How long can you go without checking your phone to see if you have any phone calls, texts, emails? People can access information through their fingertips at any time. It’s also an easy way to keep in touch or find someone. So many benefits, but I fear that technology is becoming a new age addiction for the public. Technology will one day be all that we see and take over the world. People are forgetting to enjoy the beauty of now. It seems the more advanced tech gets the more people become disconnected with the world. Society is stressed and in a rush to get everywhere and anywhere they are heading.

Technically, in parallel with its universal access that has brought communication to an unprecedented broader and faster level, digital technology has molded the majority of people into technology-dependent smartphone addicts. The heavy use of smartphone laced with

If teenagers are addicted to or spend too much time on smartphones, they would feel nervous and uncomfortable when they cannot use smartphones. For example, they could feel impatient and fretful when they are not holding their smartphones; most of them would usually feel that they cannot stand without smartphones (Kown et.al). This is why most teenagers with habits of using smartphones usually find them cannot concentrate in class or when they are doing assignments or other school works. These results are closely related to smartphones use.

The smartphone is still a fairly new invention and is constantly being developed and improved. This device has integrated itself into our culture and is slowly becoming essential to our lives. The younger generation known as "Millennials" in the age range of 18-35 years old check their cell phones on average about 75.6 times a day (Soto et al., 2017). This number is exceptionally high when compared to the older generation who only check their phone around 23 times a day, according to the same research. This paper will cover cell phone addiction and its effects on the college students lifestyle. Addiction in this case is tied with the substance use criteria in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM 5). In the criteria it states that substance use is "a pathological pattern of behaviors related to use of the substance." Extremely high smartphone use can lead to these behaviors where dependency is an issue.

Smartphones addiction is when you use a smartphone even when you know that you should not use it or when you make excuses for it usefulness. In early times, people made and received phone calls using cellular phones. However, nowadays, cellular phones are often small computers (i.e., smartphones ) as new technology has evolved. For example, people can watch movies and listen to music on one of these devices. Therefore, the global smartphone market grew rapidly in 2010 compared with the previous years. With every passing day, technology is overtaking our daily lives. In fact, 56 percent of all Americans own one. The phone, computer, tablet and other high tech devices have become not just an object, but for many a best friend. Malay Mail's recent social experiment shows that many, from teenagers to adults, are not able to switch off their smartphones. We put both