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Lee Si Eun
English 202
25 May 2017
Mankind always try to make their life more convenient and efficient. In the
procedure of advance, smartphone came out and made a revolution on earth. Then it
influenced peoples life style in many ways. The word smartphone means a mobile personal
computer with an advanced mobile operating system with features useful for mobile or
handheld use. With the valuable functions, smartphones provide services by diverse
applications that have different performances. Because of this convenience, the number of
smartphones owners have jumped from 35% to 68% between 2011 and 2015. (Marty-Dugas
9) Consequently, smartphone brought various side effects to human. There appeared people
who are addicted to smartphones and it can be harmful to their daily life. Constantly keep in
touching with people on smartphones even though they have nothing to communicate is
smartphone addiction. (Sarwar 7) People who are addicted to the smartphones are increasing
more and more. However, it can cause problems on peoples socialization, concentration, and
health problem.
First, people can be affected by smartphones on their socialization. Some people who
more like to interact on the SNS came out in society. For example, people who have poorer
social skills tend to have more frequent use of the Internet with smartphones. It appeared that
loneliness has been found to be significantly associated with smartphones addiction. Those
people who are lonely have trouble with face-to-face communication would like to interact
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with people on their smartphone like social networking applications. (Leung, 2) Even though
they can communicate well on the smartphones, they couldnt when they face people. In
addition, many smartphone users who work for an organization are getting stress because
they are encouraged to monitor their work-related e-mails constantly even after working
hours. (Sarwar, 8) In other words, smartphone is making workers to do the business even in
their home too. The fact that they cannot have free time in their own place can cause them to
have great exhaustion. In short, the higher integration of the work and home facilitated by
source of stress that having negative effect on employee social and family life. (Sarwar, 8)
internet is in peoples hand and can handle it with their fingers, they cannot take their eyes off
from smartphones easily. Looking into various social networking sites is what people usually
do with their smartphones. Because of SNSs trait, smartphone users keep check their SNS
even though there are no alarms. Besides, as SNS frequently gives new materials, people get
attracted to many interesting things. Furthermore, a research has revealed that people
frequently used smartphones unconsciously. (Marty-Dugas, 2017) For this reason, when they
are being with other people, they habitually check their smartphones, not concentrating on
their communications. Moreover, on a research, some people believed they had missed
that people could miss the information they might have to be aware of and it could cause bad
result in some way. Plus, smartphones affected students performances. Today, many students
are using smartphones and other electronic devices during the class. They were likely to
multitask but they were distracted and distract others too. As they use more devices, they got
lower grade in class performance. (J. katz-sildow, 4) Also, it is not only distracting for the
student, but it can also become distracting for other students around them and even
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company conducted a study on Smartphone users in USA and found that 58% of Smartphone
users check their phones at least once in an hour and another 54% of respondents said that
they check their phone even while going to bed to sleep. (Sarwar, 7) Plus, according to
another survey, 33% of mobile workers admitted that they check their phones for email and
message throughout the night. Nearly 50% of those surveyed said, they wouldnt even think
of going to bed without have their Smartphone s tucked under their pillows. (8) Indeed,
smartphones are invading sleeping time and disturb people to get sufficient and deep sleep.
Insufficient sleep can make peoples daily performances lower. (Lanaj, 2014) On the other
hand, according to an article, smartphone addiction is not just a buzzword but researchers
also established that obsession with our Smartphone is also responsible for significantly
In light of these reasons, it is so true that many people cannot adequately accomplish their
given tasks fully due to unnecessary usage of smartphones. Misuses of smartphones are
making peoples body fatigue and disturbs their life pattern. Of course, smartphones are being
greatly helpful to get through lots of difficulties, but overuse of them could be a tragic rather
than assistance. Smartphone use to interact with friends or family might be way more
convenient, but there should be a boundary of using it. Keep touching it with fingers even a
person is right at the front would be distractive and couldnt give full attention to the person.
When studying, smartphone is the best interruption and people might cant take eyes off from
it if it in sight. A good way to get rid of this habit, when wanted to completely concentrate on
the study, is setting up a time. For example, a person is going to study for a subject, then
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he/she could set up the time for an hour and take a rest for 10minutes and continue to study
again with the same way. Before going to sleep, it is good to put smartphones away from
people. It might give people a fully deep sleep to start the next day freshly. The comfiest
References
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symptoms, and patterns of smartphone use to social capital." Social Science Computer
KatzSidlow, Rachel J., et al. "Smartphone use during inpatient attending rounds: prevalence,
patterns and potential for distraction." Journal of hospital medicine 7.8 (2012): 595-599.
Lanaj, Klodiana, Russell E. Johnson, and Christopher M. Barnes. "Beginning the workday
yet already depleted? Consequences of late-night smartphone use and sleep." Organizational
Marty-Dugas, Jeremy. The Relation Between Smartphone Use and Everyday Inattention. MS