SMARTPHONE’S ADDICTION
Fake communication
Being obsessed with “connection availability,” the young generation is heading towards a complete relation ships’ deterioration and superficial communication, losing all the interaction aspects.
Today, NOMOPHOBIA, the fear of being without a Smartphone has become one of the main problem parents are facing
You are a nomophobic and urgently need to overcome your phobia if...
You fail of having a physical separation with your device or encounter, loneliness, frustration or anxiety
You compulsively check for messages, despite the fact that your device is not ringing.
You spend a big chunk of your life staring at your Smartphone, or worse, thinking about it.
You become angry when someone interrupts your phone time, or feeling irritated when not on your phone.
77% of people aged 14 to 24 are nomophobic, compared to 68% of those aged 25 to 34. (securenvoy)
Studies have revealed young adults, aged 18 to 29; send on average 109.5 texts a day, or approximately 3,200 messages a month. (telegraph.co.uk).
In Lebanon, teenagers reach the average of 8.000 WhatsApp messages per month.
The gravity of Smartphone addiction depends on how much time and effort young people put on speeding text messages.
CONTROLLING SMARTPHONE ADDICTION
• Keep busy! Invest in any new hobby or sports.
• Put a list of the applications you are addicted to, try to live 24hrs without accessing them. The moment you will fail to do that step, you will realize how addictive you are.
• Group alternative, make a pact with your friends and limit your conversations to specific laps of time. The one who fails to do that is the most addicted.
• Make a physical separation with your Smartphone even if you have to handle it to your parents.
• Put your mobile device down. (No peeking)
• Create a no-phone time-zone.
HARMFUL EFFECTS
of Smartphone Addiction
In conjunction with home computers and video games, the Smartphone is having a detrimental effect on children's social skills.
SOCIAL EFFECTS
• Fanatic urges to stay in touch.
• Quantity of talks prevails the quality.
• Meaningless conversations on the phone create emptiness in social gathering.
• Speaking on the phone and sending lots of text messages will give children many more acquaintances but fewer friends.
• Replacing Face-To-Face Interaction.
• Decreasing productivity & studies.
• Virtual friends and virtual text conversations become more important than the real life person.
• Incapability of forming and maintaining relationships without a mobile.
PSYCHOLOGICAL
• Teenagers feel uncomfortable and insecure if unable to contact their friends countless times each day.
• Fear of facing society, thinking that without a phone they will be left out.
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. (The need to constantly check their mobile.)
DISTRACTION-RELATED ACCIDENTS
Texting at the wheel is 'as dangerous as drink-driving'.
A 2003 study of U.S. crash data states that driver inattention is estimated to be a factor in between 20 to 50% of all police-reported crashes.
The study concluded that Smartphone drivers exhibited greater injury than intoxicated drivers. (psych.utah.edu)
Cell distraction is considered as the fatal distraction while driving.
HEALTH EFFECTS
Sperm count and sperm quality
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) review studies shows relationships between mobile phone use, low sperm count and sperm quality over controlled experiments on living humans.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
A study on mice offspring suggested that cell phone use during pregnancy may cause behavioral problems that resemble the effects of ADHD. (sciencedaily)
Eyes and Thermal effects
Heating effect will occur at the surface of the head, causing its temperature to increase by a fraction of a degree. (icnirp.de)
Insomnia
Studies indicate that during laboratory exposure to 884 MHz wireless signals, components of sleep are affected. (icnirp.de)
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